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The holidays and a band called Fucked Up just seem to go together, don't they?
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Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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Peter Paul Biro goes after the outlets that reblogged a New Yorker story questioning his methods.
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Read an open letter to the police from the attorney for Mathieu Lefevre's family.
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The kids are all right.
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Yes, the Partridge Family Christmas album is really good. Deal with it.
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People love slides so much they'll pay an extra $4 to stand in line for one.
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Both of them are really big, have nothing in common and are in a league of their own. Catch them if you can, before they get cast away. Punchline.
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Because nothing more gangsta than appreciating Modern design.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Music , Ice Cube , Rap , Hip-hop , Architecture , Los Angeles , Charles Eames , Ray Eames , Design , Architecture , Video
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A ruling from the Court of Appeals gives the state the power to make companies restore areas like the Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek to the way they found them.
by Sydney Brownstone
Tags: News , now this is what I call corporate social responsibility , Department of Environmental Conservation , DEC , BP , Exxon Mobil , National Grid , Chevron , Gowanus Canal , Newtown Creek , court of appeals , hazardous waste , superfund
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New census data reveals where median income is lowest.
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"Our biggest frustration is the need to combat the preconceived idea that puppets must be blue, furry or only for toddlers."
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On movie reviews and their function as marketing.
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Would cops be less likely to call West Indian Day revelers "animals" if they lived here?
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I guess that makes sense, except, wait, no it doesn't!
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Wants to resume public tours of historic LIRR tunnel that he lead for three decades.
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"Yeah, I've seen it. It was her boobs."
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Monument to the African Diaspora proves too contentious for Midwestern city.
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And not for crocheting a Trafalgar Square statue.
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"I’m glad to see somebody is trying to do something against the greedy, because the rich are just getting stupid rich."
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Your morning dose of statistically-induced depression.
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Which means there's no way "She Blinded Me With Science" is getting played the next time Katie Holmes is a guest.
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Sutton sees reverence for the magic of cinema while Stewart spies a love letter to light and legerdemain.
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After Valentine's Day comes New Year's Eve . Next year, Garry Marshall's You Will Fall in Love on Flag Day ?
by Jesse Hassenger
Tags: Film , Your Weekend at the Movies , New Year's Eve , Garry Marshall , The Sitter , David Gordon Green , Tim Orr , Young Adult , Jason Reitman , Diablo Cody , Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy , Tomas Alfredson , Mark Strong , I Melt With You
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Your weekend rep pick is brought to you by the blood and guts of two sheep.
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Struggling to make a Band of Brothers pun while explaining that his one-day show is happening on the Lower East Side next month.
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There's more pink that you'd expect from someone who is in the band Hole.
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Unfeeling commenter: "Thats (sic) fucking disgusting. They deserve all the ear infections they get."
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Management calls for draconian cuts.
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When the lights go down tonight, Haneke begins.
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A footbridge over a bustling bike route is a popular spot from which to throw stuff.
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Aside from a recession hiccup, numbers are way up.
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You and your fucking flat earth can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut.
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It's the latest breakthrough in internet science!
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Is the area a no-man's land, or an essential manufacturing center?
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The director of Timecrimes ' new comedy of cuckolding—with spaceships!
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Various franchises: competing for your money: wooing you with faux-sophisticated subtitles.
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And we hope it will be named after one of our favorite Swizzy tracks.
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O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree, thy leaves are so unchanging. Not only green when summer's here, but also because they're made of empty cans of beer.
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Barring a Christmas miracle, bleak holidays ahead for the locked-out art handlers.
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It's possible, apparently.
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Highly specific single-function site takes much longer to type than "mta.info" but whatever.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: News , single-function sites , G train , Greenpoint , Clinton Hill , MTA , Boerum Hill , L train , public transportation , Brooklyn , Williamsburg
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At one point, Norman Adie owned three cinemas in brownstone Brooklyn.
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A 44 minute album gets stretched into 2,700+ hours. Hurry! THERE'S NO TIME FOR PUTTING ON HEADPHONES!
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The Bushwick-based artist just made a giant sculpture for a site-specific play on the Upper East Side.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Theater , These Are the People in Your Neighborhood , Zane Wilson , Bushwick , Upper East Side , Soho Rep , Sculpture , NYC art , NYC theater , Off-Off Broadway , Interview
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An open letter requesting use of LMCC's LentSpace includes many, many celebrity signees.
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Sad, yes, but also exciting.
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The 90s, you guys. The 90s.
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Where were we the day they set the record for "Most People In A Single Pair Of Pants"?!
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Here are some sexy ones you might consider.
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"A concept of staggering unoriginality (but you’ll still wanna sign up)." — Matador
by Lauren Beck
Tags: Music , Matador Records , Singles Going Home Alone , Stephen Malkmus , L.A. Guns , OBN III , The Men , gift guide , subscription series , 7-inch singles , Video
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Spats, putdowns, schisms galore.
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In which band leader Yoni Wolf considers buying a bow tie at Banana Republic.
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The "sheer, calculated brutality stunned even the most hardened of homicide detectives."
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Some of the once-evicted bars, restaurants and shops signed eight-year leases.
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Plus, we're betting they play a Christmas song or two.
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Seriously, Jay and Kanye should retire before this gets any more embarrassing.
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And then we'll go listen to Donovan, promise.
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The local purveyor of unsexy sex reads on Monday at Franklin Park.
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So let's take a look at our very first...
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The soloist tore apart Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the NY Philharmonic last night.
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Just kidding! Just kidding! We totally understand them!
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Benefit shows at Home Sweet Home and Motor City are set for tonight.
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Thus concludes, more or less, the great DUMBO pizza scare of 2011.
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Saturday morning's collision the latest on park's problematic West Lake Drive.
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Nor will he ever, ever be.
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On the media's reluctance to talk about the dictator's truly fucked up relationships with women.
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A interview and in-office performance with Laurel Sprengelmeyer (a.k.a. Little Scream), the musician behind one of our favorite albums of the year.
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"There is a place called La Bagel Delight. It's a real place."
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Trying to un-ruin a reputation ruined by police.
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On popular iconography in a closed country.
by Mark Asch
Tags: Film , North Korea , Kim Jong-il , The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu , Team America: World Police , Shin Sang-ok , Pulgasari , On the Art of Cinema , Wolmi Island , The Juche Idea , Jim Finn , Fascinating Fascism , The Red Chapel
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Why do kids from countries with robust and popular welfare states do so well?!?
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No less upsetting for being totally expected.
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Update: Has already gotten it, and we have pictures to prove it.
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An update from the Front (Street) lines of the Brooklyn pizza wars.
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The actor recently interrupted performances of Richard III to reprimand noisy audience members.
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On the thrilling, infuriating moral clarity of the singular Hitch.
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Must be all those bike lanes.
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Fred Armisen finally gets his chance to be Thom Yorke.
by Lauren Beck
Tags: Music , TV , Saturday Night Live , SNL , Lady Gaga , Thom Yorke , Ke$ha , Bieber , M.I.A. , Kanye , Christmas Duets with Michael Buble , Video
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We hope this is the last time in 2011 that we have to use the "bike death" tag.
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Thanks for the gift horse! (Let's take a peak at those gums.)
by Jeff Klingman
Tags: Music , Christmas music , Carpark Records , Class Actress , Dan Deacon , Memory Tapes , Toro Y Moi , Light Pollution , Signer , Young Magic , Cloud Nothings , Video
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The American Folk Art and South Street Seaport museums are helping each other out.
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Rejoice! The last new episode of the year!
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With Bon Iver, Bill Callahan and lots of other artists who did lots of really great work in 2011. Plus a few that didn't.
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Feel instant jealousy at Elizabeth Morris' vocal abilities!
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If you talk about records at all, that is. And if you live mostly on the internet.
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Sutton sees this seven-day biopic satirizing stuffy British actors, while Stewart declares it monarchist propaganda.
by Benjamin Sutton and Henry Stewart
Tags: Film , Mutual Oscarbation , Biopics , Marilyn Monroe , My Week with Marilyn , Michelle Williams , Kenneth Branagh , Laurence Olivier , The Prince and the Showgirl , Oscars , Simon Curtis
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Make sure you have a handkerchief nearby before checking out this new blog.
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Kinda like Wal-Mart, except not at all.
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Not the solution Red Hook and Columbia Waterfront District residents were hoping for...
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Don't worry, they won.
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Nazi uniforms, generally frowned upon, become even more so when alcohol and elected officials are involved.
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Karen O — dressed as Santa — at your service.
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Our side of DUMBO is about to get a lot less cool.
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Sometimes the truth hurts.
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Like Sex and the City for those of us who make under $25k a year.
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In an otherwise well done piece about sexual abuse in Brooklyn's Orthodox community.
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Plus, the SHOCKING truth about alt-weekly web freelance rates.
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But will anyone ever use the "Urban Umbrella"?
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , News , Scaffolding , Construction , Architecture , Public art , URBANshed , Sidewalk sheds , NYC art , Urban Umbrella , Video
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Complete with a shot of one of my favorite concert t-shirts of 2011 (the one with a deer wearing glasses, obviously).
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Cue the sound of warm, warm laughter.
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The childhood obesity rate declined for the first time in decades.
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Your favorite typeface is doing big things.
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Get ready, Internet! This is going to be a total non-event that you will make into something so much more!
Features
Now with more Fugazi-related nostalgia than ever before! And also hot new bands called The Clash! And the Rolling Stones!
by Mike Conklin
Tags: Features , Music , Fugazi , Girls , Felt , The Promise Ring , The Clash , The Rolling Stones , NPR , Patti Smith , Joni Mitchell , The Cure , Video
Film Reviews
In which the film laureate of house arrest packs four people into a Brooklyn Heights co-op and watches them squirm.
Film Reviews
In this Le Carre adaptation, the director of Let the Right One In makes compelling cinema out of the clammy institutional bureaucracy of British intelligence in the 70s.
Film Reviews
With a boost from Charlize Theron, a formerly irritating filmmaker suggests something true about hometowns in his fourth feature.
Film Reviews
Rachid Bouchareb's latest, set in the aftermath of the 7/7 attacks, is predictably didactic-humanist, but the acting sells it.
Film Reviews
In 1976's Daguerréotypes , the ever-observant godmother of the French New Wave spends time on the street where she lives.
Film Reviews
It's hard out here for a middle-aged rich white guy.
Film Reviews
A MoMA series spotlights grimly entertaining thrillers about impotence in the face of a malevolent universe.
Film Reviews
The 80s-homage The Sitter continues a former indie wunderkind director's run of sweet if sometimes patchy raunch-coms.
Film Reviews
Post-60s sexual liberation plays havoc with a young pool attendant in Jerzy Skolimowski's Deep End , revived at BAM.
Film Reviews
In script-sticking sequel Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows , Guy Ritchie applies his fashionable-again aesthetic to bombastic spectacle.
Film Reviews
A shy chocolatier takes the plunge in the sweet (ha!) Romantics Anonymous .
Restaurant Reviews
Review of newly-opened seafood restaurant Littleneck.
by Kara Zuaro
Tags: Restaurant Reviews , Food & Drink , Restaurant Review , Gowanus Canal , Third Avenue , Sailors , Longshoremen beards , Rod Stewart , Maine lobster , Greenpoint , Fresh shellfish , Buckley Bay , Polish bacon , Mother’s Milk Stout , Hudson Valley’s Keegan Ales , Jack D’Or , Pretty Things
Bar Reviews
Review of Flying Lobster restaurant.
by Jen Watson
Tags: Bar Reviews , Food & Drink , Restaurant Review , Neil Ganic , Chef Freakout Hall of Fame , Carroll Gardens , Le Petit Crevette , Nautical tchotchkes , Decenio Rioja Joven , Campo Viejo Rioja Reserve , Bordeaux , Montepulciano d’Abruzzo , Chianti , South African Pinot Noir , Main Street Sauvignon Blanc , Carpineti Capolemole , Brooklyn Lager , Red Stripe , Pilsner Urquell , Blossom Dearie , Me and Bobby McGee
Ten years before she died at age 34 the pioneering post-minimalist sculptor created the series of ghostly paintings on view at the Brooklyn Museum.
Their collaborative, co-curated show at Team Gallery uses the detritus of perpetual technological innovation as raw material.
Theater Reviews
In this site-specific one-woman show, Zoe Caldwell plays an elderly Upper East Side socialite having you over for tea.
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Jay O. Sanders wows as the loony Roman general in the Public Theater's production of Shakespeare's ultimate revenge play.
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Peter Jacobs' new multimedia performance piece perplexes audiences at The Chocolate Factory.
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Jordan Harrison's latest at Playwrights Horizons follows an overworked New York couple to a gated community of 1950s re-enactors.
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A new play by Grant James Varjas set at a Lower East Side gay bar is deathly dull, despite starring Keith McDermott.
Theater Reviews
Anton Chekhov's final play usually leaves audiences with a conundrum: should you laugh or should you cry? Here the choice is clear.
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Enda Walsh's latest show at St. Ann's Warehouse has the Irish actor playing every member of the small town in his head.
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John Hurt stars in a Krapp's Last Tape so successfully morbid that the audience's enthusiasm proves Beckett wrong.
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A new comedy by David Jenkins at the New Ohio Theater examines class relations at a moment of social upheaval.
Joan Didion grieves for her daughter (and herself?) in this flinty, frail memoir.
Meghan O'Rourke grieves for her mother (again) in this ultimately graceful and convincing poetry collection.
Ask A Cabbie
by Ryan Vlastelica
Tags: Ask A Cabbie , Hell’s Kitchen , Puerto Rico , Toy Motor Cars , JFK Airport , Queens , Kindle , Lower East Side , San Francisco , Booze , Jameson , Hangovers , Atlantic Avenue , Upstate New York , Wedding Present
Art Fag City
In case you're at a loss about what to get the art nerd in your life.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
Local
History reborn deep inside the old Brooklyn Navy Yard
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Local , USMC , USS Austin , Building 92 , Wallabout Bay , Room Showcases , Saturday Night Live , Steiner Studios , Ted & Honey , Cobble Hill , Green Manufacturing , Navy Stuff
Local
The editors portray what they think the park really looks like.
Tags: Local , Tetris , Rogers Marvel , Toll Brothers , Leeser Architects , SDS Procida , Starfleet Academy , Beyer Blinder Belle , Extel , Fxfowle , Dermot Company , Aquarium , Cangelosi Design & Architecture , Robert A. Levine , Bernheimer Architects , Alloy Development , nArchitects , Starwood Capital , WASA/Studio A Landscape , Two Trees
Features
What have you done with your life so far? Here’re 25 young New Yorkers who are probably better than you.
by The Editors
Tags: Features , Seanna Sharpe , Ashley Zelinskie , Bon Duke , Sophia Takal , Coco and Breezy , Brad Oberhofer , Nicole Lesser , Jessica Walsh , Occupy Brooklyn , Zana Bayne , Audrey Gelman , A$AP Rocky , Rosie Gray , The N+1 Interns , Colin Campbell , Nina Zilka and David J. Krause , Lana Del Rey , The Tar Sands Kids , Jacob DeKat , Envy Index , young New Yorkers , 25 Under 25
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Occupy Wall Street protestors find new momentum in Occupy Our Homes, a movement to end homelessness throughout the country.
by Eugene Reznik
Tags: Features , Mayor Bloomberg , Tasha Glasgow , Vermon Street , OWS , Occupy Our Homes , 99 Percent , Alfredo Carrasquillo , Citibank , Real estate tour , Bill Dobb , Anthony Brooks , Vocal New York , Johnny’s Original Pizza , Herman McClain , Better than gunshots , Murder capital of the USA , Zuccotti Park , Bed-Stuy
