The East Village Is NYC's Most Popular 'Date Spot'
HowAboutWe, the online dating site based on what you want to do -- how about we wake up early and blog together? -- has pulled together information from the more than 100,000 dates posted on its site...
View ArticleAstorians Mourn Departed Bus and Subway Lines, Want to Bring Back the QM22
Politicians, civic groups, and commuters gathered yesterday by the Astoria-Ditmars subway stop to mark the death-iversary of their dearly departeds: the W train and the QM22 bus line. One year ago, the...
View ArticleNew York Amish Population Growing Rapidly, Study Says
According to a study by Elizabethtown College researchers, the Amish population is experiencing a boom in New York. State, that is, not NYC. Duh. Ten new Amish settlements have been established since...
View ArticleCab Hits Horse-Drawn Carriage; Cops Seek Greenpoint Jewelry Store Robbers;...
• A cab hit a horse-drawn carriage on Central Park South last night, rear-ending it and throwing a woman out onto the sidewalk and the horse onto the street, with the carriage on top of it, according...
View ArticleReal Estate Company Renames Midtown 'MiMa'
New York City real estate agents have given us one more reason to despise them; they're trying to rebrand Midtown West as MiMa, which is short for "The Middle of Manhattan," because the word "Midtown"...
View ArticleFriends Gather to Remember Bob Arihood
Last night, friends of Bob Arihood gathered outside Ray's Candy Store at 7th Street and Avenue A to pay their respects. Bob passed away last week, and about 60 people met at his old hangout to say...
View ArticleOccupy Wall Street Faces Its Neighbors At Contentious Community Board Meeting
Last night, the Quality of Life and Financial District sub-committees of Community Board 1 held a hearing in Lower Manhattan. The topic was Occupy Wall Street, specifically the tense relationship the...
View ArticleGuard Thwarts Armored Truck Robbery Outside Williamsburg Deli
Don't come between a security guard and his breakfast. The New York Post reports of a struggle earlier this morning between a masked assailant and a security guard outside of East Williamsburg's Late...
View ArticleCooper Square Hotel is Now The Standard, East Village; Go About Your Business
The Cooper Square Hotel is dead, long live The Standard, East Village. The 21-story glass and steel tower across the street from our offices has been bought by Standard Hotels. As part of this...
View ArticleQueens Mother and Daughter Shot in the Head in Astoria
An 57-year-old Astoria woman named Olga Borodina Annarumma and her daughter Valeria Lowery, 25 are in the hospital after being shot in the head in their home this morning. The shooting took place...
View ArticleGrant Tied to Major Blackout in 2006 Gives Boost to Biking in Queens
Thanks to a devastating blackout six years ago, biking in Queens in 2012 might become a little bit easier. In 2006, a major electrical power outage hit Western Queens in a damaging nine-day blackout...
View ArticleU.S. Census: New York City is Not as Big as Bloomberg Says it is
Sorry, Mike! The city is just not as big as you think it is. That's according to the U.S. Census Bureau, anyway, which, in very unsurprising news, has announced that it is not revising its official...
View ArticleLocal Pols Say Federal Government is Getting in the Way of NYC's First...
New York City is oh so very close to being a better city for film and television than Hollywood -- if the federal government would just get out of the damn way! At least that was the message today on...
View ArticleAstoria Man Caught With Enough Weapons for a Small Army
Word of advice: do not go shooting your guns off late at night in the middle of the night in Queens. Another word of advice: especially if you have an arsenal that would make the NRA proud hiding in...
View ArticleJust Because It's My Brooklyn Doesn't Mean It Can't Be Yours
On Saturday afternoon, Rerun Theater at Rebar was full. It seemed only fitting that even the name of the place is a do-over, its chairs the back seats from old minivans--and not just because Rerun is a...
View ArticleDon't Listen to the Wall Street Journal: The East Village Is NOT Midtown...
"Facebook Inc. is moving its New York office south and nearly doubling its space, marking the latest technology company to set up shop in the city's Midtown South neighborhood." --Wall Street Journal...
View ArticleAt Least 60 Feral and Outdoor Cats Have Vanished in Astoria
A mystery in Astoria is growing stranger by the day. Caregivers for the neighborhood's feral and outdoor cats report that at least 60 felines have gone missing between early December and now. "Just for...
View ArticleTerrible Person Allegedly Steals Cash Collected for Beloved Accordionist's...
In Dante's Inferno, the eighth circle of hell is reserved for thieves and falsifiers. If there's any justice in the afterlife, that's where the dude who allegedly stole $650 in cash — from a beloved...
View ArticleIn Astoria, an Art and Performance Space Doubles as an 'After-School Center'...
QED, a multipurpose event space in Astoria, has been visited by comedy-world luminaries like Ted Alexandro, Mystery Science Theater 3000's Frank Conniff, and a slew of Saturday Night Live writers. But...
View ArticleHere's How They Got Teens Off Drugs in 1960s Greenwich Village
“‘THERE'S NO SUCH THING as a non-drug hip any more. Drugs just became part of the hip — an increasingly important part of it. The Village went right from folk music to amphetamine. Somewhere around...
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