As you may have heard, the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, which produces The Local, is teaming up with New York magazine to launch a new site, Bedford + Bowery. We’ll still be covering the East Village and Lower East Side but we’ll also be jumping on the L train to cover Williamsburg, Bushwick and […]

Fourth Arts Block and Made in the Lower East Side have announced the rates for their FABWorks Storefront, opening next Monday. $40 gets you part-time access to the co-working space, which will offer free printer access, coffee and WiFi weekdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. You can also rent the space to use as […]

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Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong continue sorting through their archives of punk-era concert footage as it’s digitized for the Downtown Collection at N.Y.U.’s Fales Library Nicole Batchelor Regne Well, it is officially Richard Hell month. His newly published book, “I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp,” has enjoyed a glowing review in The New […]

Courtesy Oh, My Nails! Courtesy of Oh, My Nails! All the single ladies, take note: a manicurist who did Beyoncé’s nails when she was manager at Sakura Nail and Spa has opened her own place. Mo Qin, known to most of her customers simply as Momo, has quietly opened Oh, My Nails! at 117 East […]

Anthony Pappalardo Anthony Pappalardo The East Village has lost quite a few backyard gardens in recent years: the back patio at Bull McCabes is still closed, the ones behind Le Souk and I Coppi sit dormant, and what used to be the beer garden of Croxley Ales is now a construction site where a six-story […]

David McReynolds, known for burning his draft card, lost a lot more than that when a fire broke out in his home of 50 years late last month.

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“We have to fight gravity to enhance confidence,” says the owner of Healthier Life Body-Slimming Lingerie.

If you’ve ever walked by Wendigo Productions back when it was on Avenue B or now that it’s on Avenue A (with a new art gallery!) and wondered what the heck the place was all about, well here’s your answer.

The Ukrainian eatery is celebrating March Madness in its own special way.

Chanting “Public housing under attack! What do we do? Fight back!”, members of the Alfred E. Smith Houses’ tenants association urged residents to boycott a meeting in which the New York City Housing Authority pitched its plan to lease land to private developers.

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Don’t feel like staying in tonight? Head out to the opening of “In and Out and In Between,” an exhibition of ceramic-on-wood works by Julia Chiang.

After nearly five years on First Avenue, Linhardt Design is headed to Nolita.

“The judge put the burden on the poor and elderly instead of on N.Y.U., where it belonged,” says the attorney for the rent-stabilized tenants of Washington Square Village.

Ray Sumser, the East Villager who drew pretty much every cartoon character ever, is back with a new project.

The blaze on the fifth floor of the building near East 10th Street was called in at 12:13 p.m. and under control within 15 minutes, the fire department said.

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