east village
A NY Mexican Spot Got Busted For Serving Booze to Almost 50 Teenagers in One Night
Cops raided the East Village bar Dahlia’s on January 30 after receiving a call complaining about underage drinking, and when they arrived they found 43 teenagers under the age of 18 throwing back margaritas and mojitos.
Dirty Work: Marinated Japanese Eggplants with Homemade Ricotta from Bobby Hellen of GG's
Bobby Hellen is the chef at Manhattan pizza and small plates spot GG's and he's no stranger to urban gardens. His restaurant's own backyard garden might rival ours, but he stopped by and created some dishes we couldn't come up with in a million years.
Getting Up Close and Personal with Porn-Inspired Paintings
Decades after they were first censored in the 1970s, Betty Tompkins' photorealistic paintings of sex and genitalia are getting a digital reboot in her solo show, "Real Ersatz."
This Sandwich Shop Is a Front for a Weird, Wonderful Food Lab
Behind its shelves stocked with expensive dried pastas, small-batch jams, and very handsome sardine tins, Harry & Ida's hides a fermentation lab spearheaded by chef Will Horowitz, who pickles cattails and smokes frog legs, among many other edible...
A Tech Guy from Detroit Created a Dating App that Matches Israelis with Palestinians
It may not bring about world peace, but Verona hopes to create greater empathy between those on both sides of one of the planet's oldest conflicts.
Milk Bar's Christina Tosi Doesn't Want to Be Bossy
In an ideal world, I don't want to be a boss; I like to lead and be in charge, but I don't want to be “bossy!” But the reality of the situation is that sometimes you have to lay down the law—and the way I do it involves a sense of humor!
New York's Attorney General Wants to Know Why This College Isn't Free Anymore
Cooper Union started charging tuition two years ago amid allegations of financial mismanagement, and now the school is having to defend its actions in court.
A Building Exploded in the East Village Thursday Afternoon
Initial reports suggest at least a dozen people are injured, three of them critically.
Clayton Patterson Photographed the Best of the Lower East Side
Be it street gangs, drag queens, or GG Allin, if it happened on the LES there's a good chance Clayton Patterson was there, doing whatever he had to do to get the shot.
The 'Rent Is Too Damn High' Guy Says He's Being Evicted Because He's Black
He said his eviction "is about me paying low rent. But also because I'm the only negro in the building."
Jeannette Montgomery Barron Captured the Energy of New York's 80s Art Scene
"You always romanticize the past, but New York really was a place you could live and work as an artist. That's all changed now."
Meet the Musicians Behind 'TV Party'
On "The Everything for Sale Show," we meet the public access show's orchestra in living color.