Marty Markowitz: Gowanus May Be the Venice of Brooklyn, But Don't Swim or Fish There
The Brooklyn beep is psyched about the incoming Whole Foods. But only eat the things you find INSIDE the store.
Posted 10/10/08 in Grub Street
Do the 'Cue
Tom Mylan Has a Hillbilly Hog Roast at the Yard Tonight
Plus, the Red Hook Ballfields vendors might be getting fancy new digs.
Posted 09/05/08 in Grub Street
Openings
Union Hall’s Bell House Will Open September 18 With Free Show
The guys behind Union Hall will open their new performance venue and lounge, the Bell House, in a twenties warehouse.
Posted 08/11/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Whole Foods to Alter Brooklyn Plans
Poor undertrafficked, overcharitable Ikea! Poor Slopies thinking only poor people have public sex! (Not!) So many people to feel sorry for in today's rainy, weepy boroughs report.
Posted 07/30/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Yuppies Discouraged From Partying in Tompkins Square Park
Plus plaster nearly falling on East Harlem babies before their souls are insured and a cure for killer staph in the Gowanus Canal. Why wait? Click through today's boroughs report!
Posted 07/29/08 in Daily Intel
Company Town
Circulation Report: ‘Vogue’ Down, ‘Ladies’ Home Journal’ Up
Plus, Katie Couric takes control of CBS News' political coverage, hotels keep cropping up in Gowanus, and KKR's IPO doesn't go as well as planned, all in our daily industry report.
Posted 07/17/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
There’s a Sloop on the Gowanus
Plus the Upper West Side gets "rods of falling water," and Flushing's Sky View Parc–condo dwellers get sludge-front property, in our daily neighborhood wrap-up.
Posted 07/16/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Ikea Shuttle-Crisis Solved?
Plus the sad old buildings of the Bowery and Gowanus, the ecoartist of Bushwick, and the developmentally disabled clown lovers of Staten Island, in our daily borough report.
Posted 06/16/08 in Grub Street
Neighborhood Watch
The Return of NYC ICY; Chelsea's Latest Wine Bar
Matsugen serves a wide range of Japanese treats, and not all best-sliders lists are equal, in today's neighborhood food news.
Posted 05/30/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
The Maple-Syrup Smell Returns!
Crown Heights unites against a homeless center, Snug Harbor gets ready to rock, and more in our week's-end boroughs report.
Posted 05/29/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
This Weekend on Governors Island, Avoid the Steaming Divot
There's a lot of weird news in our boroughs report today: Tony Soprano's maid is evicted from Williamsburg, Alex Hamilton's house is afloat in Harlem, and possible sex hotels are cropping up in Gowanus! Click through for all the oddacity!
Posted 05/28/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Pro-Pussy Activists Attack Port Authority
Animal activists defend the feral kitties of JFK against collective euthanasia, a stolen bike is rescued by East Village heroes, and a man in Coney Island suffers a craptastic fall — all in your daily dish from the five boroughs.
Posted 05/14/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Obama Gets Whitewashed (and Not How You Think)
An Obama graffiti war on the Bowery, canal-dunked art in Gowanus, Meryl in the Slope, and "shit juice" in Greenpoint. Drink it all in with our daily boroughs report!
Posted 05/13/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
The Look Book Comes to the 'Shwick
Kingsbridge may get the next fancy public toilet, Bushwick gets it own look book, and the Slope could get veeery stinky this summer. All in our daily boroughs report.
Posted 04/16/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Okay, Really, There Will Be Life on the Gowanus?
Even more development on the canal, a grocery store saved, and a new American Apparel parody. What would you do without your daily Neighborhood Watch?
Posted 03/24/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Toxic Wind Blows From Gowanus
Construction in Gowanus blows a fetid wind across the land, babies terrorize Upper East Siders, and Chelsea residents tear apart Barnes & Noble with their bare hands in our daily roundup of neighborhood news.
Posted 02/26/08 in Daily Intel
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Posted 02/25/08 in Daily Intel
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