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If a recent Instagram post is to be trusted, there are only a few more weeks to swig cocktails and load up on proper patty melts and/or menu-stealing semolina strawberry shortcakes from Rose Marie. Not even a year since it opened on Lorimer in East Williamsburg, the restaurant has announced it will be closing in […]

Had he lived to this day, Miles Davis, the St. Louis-born horn player who forecasted and hugged every bend in jazz development over the course of his 65 years of material existence, would have turned 100. From pre-bop to bebop to the “cool” years to post-bop to the “blue” years to whatever “fusion” means to

The Tavern Next Door is located at 327 Van Brunt Street, between Sullivan and King Streets, and is currently open for drinks and dinner starting at 5:00 p.m. daily, with the kitchen closing at 9:30  Let’s get this out of the way quick and early: Billy Durney’s brand new cocktail bar Tavern Next Door serves

First Bloom, a Borscht Belt corner store from Alison Roman, appears to be expanding to Brooklyn Heights this fall. The food media maven announced via newsletter that her curated, high-end, locally sourced grocer and appetizing shop with humble upstate beginnings will soon be “a permanent resident of the Big Apple,” sharing scant details about the

What is painfully apparent for those residing in Brooklyn’s northeast corner is how long it takes to get to Maimonides Park in Coney Island, the home of the High-A Brooklyn Cyclones, the only professional baseball team within the borough’s borders. It’s a full-day trip to see the Mets’ local Minor League affiliate, one of Brooklyn’s

Let the record show there are, indeed, perks to having a soccer-obsessed mayor beyond getting to see and hear them riff on their favorite, and most disappointing, Arsenal moments. According to City Hall, they include a willingness to hit the pitch and duke it out with top brass at FIFA to ensure working-class New Yorkers

The best joke I’ve ever come up with, though I’m quite sure versions of it have existed for as long as this city has, goes like this: The first “Real New Yorker” was a 17th-century Dutch colonizer, who, within a few weeks of arriving on Manhattan’s shore, looked around at their developing settlement and complained

If you’re the type of seasoned or aspiring New York cinephile that’s easily overwhelmed by the sheer range and frequency of classic movie screenings and repertory film programming on offer any given day of the week in this city, prepare to be pushed to the brink. Gone are the days of crawling Fandango or binge-following

Bar Susanne is located at 6 River Street, near Kent Avenue and South 5th Street, and is currently open from 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. daily There are few spots in Brooklyn more pleasant on a nice summer evening than that southern end of Domino Park, where there’s always a nice breeze, the Williamsburg Bridge

The Brooklyn Mirage and its many miserable, very public missteps and malfunctions are, by now, officially, just about a thing of the past, razed to the ground before a single song could ever be shazamed. And yet, a year since it all started to go south, we’re somehow still learning details, still piecing together how