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Post-Sandy sinkholes have appeared in the Rockaways as a result of damage to water and sewer lines; is it possible one has opened up on Avenue C?

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Smoked meat returned to Mile End Sandwich’s menu last week, for the first time since Hurricane Sandy destroyed its Red Hook commissary.

Near Great Jones Street, the former home of Steve’s on the Bowery was gutted today. A construction worker confirmed that a “retail store” would replace the deli, which closed in September, but wouldn’t say whether an Intermix was on the way, as rumored. In August a spokesperson for the boutique told The Local it was bound […]

The owners of Noodle Cafe Zen on St. Marks Place and Sushi Lounge on Avenue A plan to open a ramen joint on Curry Row by the end of the week.

The new academic building’s armor was damaged by Hurricane Sandy.

Neighbors and fellow skateboarders gathered Saturday night to mourn Kyle Larson, who was struck and killed while longboarding near Union Square on Tuesday.

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26 units and 84 firefighters responded to a fire in the Jacob Riis Houses Saturday night.

Kenny Scharf does the holiday windows at Khiel’s.

A man was in critical condition after being stabbed at the Lillian Wald Houses this afternoon, the fire department said. Around 2:40 p.m. the man, whose identity was not immediately available, was stabbed in the chest at 950 East Fourth Walk, near Avenue D; he was taken to New York Presbyterian in critical condition, the […]

Last week, Amadeus Bogner, a partner in the hand-pulled-noodle shop Hung Ry (and owner of Heidi and Extra Place nearby) reopened the Bond Street space as a French restaurant, Le Philosophe. We spoke to chef Matthew Aita, formerly of Jean-Georges, about his “classic French bistro” menu, which you can peruse below.

Two of the neighborhood’s celebrity misanthropes were at it earlier this week.

Last Thursday, Marissa Lippert of Nourish NYC and Allison Beale of George PR teamed up to raise $7,000 for the Red Hook Initiative and two of their favorite restaurants, Governor in Red Hook and the storm-battered Arcane on Avenue C. The Local was there.

Happy Thanksgiving, East Village. If you’re planning to hit the town tomorrow, you can find 28 prix-fixe menus here. (Should one of these options leave you in need of a post-feast cleanse, Angelika Kitchen’s chef has a recipe.) If you’re staying in and cooking, here are some wine-pairing suggestions from Kimberly Koharki of the Astor Center. Be […]

wSuzanne Rozdeba 104 East Seventh Street A pair of East Village walk-ups were sold as part of a $73 million portfolio that also included 14 properties in the West Village, Upper East Side, and downtown Brooklyn. Paul Smadbeck, Senior Vice President of Sales at Massey Knakal, described the buyer, Stone Street Properties, as “a relatively young, new […]

Ursula Ramos, spent more than a decade asking the New York City Housing Authority for a transfer from her dark basement apartment on East Tenth Street. Earlier this month she finally got it, after Sandy flooded the unit with roughly three feet of water and destroyed nearly all of her possessions.

East 12th Street was the site of an armed robbery for the third time in a month, despite an overall decline in crime in the Ninth Precinct in the last month.