Anthony Pappalardo on a new exhibit at New Museum, “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star.”

Geoffrey “Bart” Bartholomew is a poet and longtime barman at McSorley’s. His son, who works alongside him, is working on a history of the bar.

Here’s a peak inside the “all-day American brasserie” that the operators of Tocqueville and 15 East are opening on the ground floor of the long delayed hotel.

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Superdive’s infamous Mad Dog Room has really gone to the dogs. ABC Animal Hospital will move from East 14th Street.

Sam Lewontin burst into tears when he learned he’d won the Northeast Regional Barista Competition this afternoon.

Last week we discovered that Star, the wonder dog that survived a police shooting, was given a new identity. But why?

Lila Selim Lila Selim Kathleen Webster. Kathleen Webster has had enough of her unwelcome neighbors at Sara D. Roosevelt Park. She thinks the rat population has exploded since Hurricane Sandy, particularly around the Golden Age Center for senior citizens. “I saw about forty of them crawling out of the garbage in back of the building,” […]

At the new restaurant, a former Veritas chef will offer family-style feasts.

Courtesy Andreas Knutsen Rodriguez and Andreas Knutsen Sunday night, when the Best Documentary feature is announced at the Oscars, you can be certain which film Andreas Knutsen and his fellow staff of Other Music will be rooting for. Last year, on April 25, the 38-year-old manager and head buyer had barely opened the store when […]

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After a year’s delay, Nevada Smiths now plans to open its new space on Third Avenue in the first week in March.

The second establishment named after Washington Irving that Eric Sherman and Brian Krawitz have opened in recent months. See the space and the menus.

On the heels of an application to convert the former P.S. 64 building into college dorms, Villagers are again calling for the historic building to be used for non-profit organizations and low-income housing.

The son of one of the feuding owners tells us how the anachronistic business has managed to survive despite a wacky business structure.

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Panda Diplomacy, the pop-up surf-wear shop on East Sixth Street, has unleashed a sleuth of eye-patched pandas around the East Village.

Current and prospective students gathered outside Cooper Union’s Foundation Building today to protest the deferral of early-decision applicants ahead of next month’s vote regarding the possibility of charging tuition.

William S. Burroughs would’ve turned 99 this month. Portraits of him are currently on display, but Tim Milk, who met the literary lion, thinks they’re not to be believed.