“Listen In” is a feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. British/Californian outfit The Acid makes gloomy, minimal synth-pop. Their track “Ghost” from last year’s album […]
Neighborhood staple Jesse’s Deli has served up sandwiches and bodega staples on Atlantic Avenue since 1989. But recently the landlord more than doubled the rent, and the business may have to close, leaving the people of this part of Cobble Hill without a bodega, a New York necessity as vital as a laundromat or a […]
2C-E or “Europa” is a synthetic psychedelic phenethylamine hallucinogen. It’s a powerful drug that’s like setting off mental fireworks, bringing a bounty of colors, sounds, sights, and thoughts that you wouldn’t have had otherwise. It’s a vacation from the vacation of the ordinary. The colorless oil is not for the faint of heart. It’s strong […]
The owners of the Mets have big plans to redevelop the Willets Point area around Citi Field, including the enigmatic industrial neighborhood across the street and the huge parking lots that ring the stadium. The developers were handed a setback in court Thursday, when three justices of the Supreme Court Appellate Division ruled that the […]
For the past few years, artists have been painting a bunch of Second Avenue Subway-related construction trailers that occupy 1st street, in an effort to make the stretch of road look less like a war zone. The Centre-Fuge rotating public art project changes up every few months and for Cycle 17, it features the work […]
The Daily News reports that after the most peaceful June on record, the NYPD is on pace to see less than 100,000 felony crimes for the first time in the department’s history in 2015. “This month’s historically low crime stats and declining CCRB complaints make it clear: we can bring police and community closer together […]
Thomas, NYC. (Photo: Abian Sacks) […]
After protesters set the Confederate and American flags on fire at a Revolutionary War memorial in Brooklyn, counter protesters arrived, like this guy, who broke out a supersized Stars and Stripes. (Photo: Dave Colon) […]
This video, posted to Facebook on July 1, has gotten over a million views due to the stunning aggression shown by the plainclothes detective enacting the arrest. Two men were walking down Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem when they were stopped. It’s unclear if the police told them why they were being stopped, or if […]
The Brooklyn Paper’s Joseph Altobelli published an article today decrying the recent appearance of costumed characters forced out of Times Square on the Coney Island boardwalk. According to Altobelli and his sources, the characters, who sometimes illegally charge people to pose for photos with them, are aggressive and annoying and bad for business. Altobelli writes: […]
