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Today's Fresh Blogs...| The Rosetta Stone of ramen |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 12:34 pm |
| Tags: East Village, Eastvillage, Fukuoka, Hokkaido, Japanese Food, Japanesefood, Miso, Ramen, Ramenyas, Shio, Shiromaru, Shoyu, Soup |
| Grains, Vegetables, Far East, Pork, On the BlogsGiven my love of Japanese food, and my belief in the restorative powers of slurping down a steaming bowl of authentic ramen, I'm surprised that it took so long for me to happen upon Rameniac. I like to think of this site not as a resource but as the Rosetta Stone of ramen. Given that it lists |
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| Cue the Violins in Park Slope and Kensington |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 4:01 pm |
| Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Coney Island, East Village, Jackson Heights, Kensington, Park Slope, Union Square, Williamsburg |
| August 5. [Gowanus Lounge] East Village: Duane Reade finally has Harry Potter. There's no need to go without. [East Village Idiot] Jackson Heights: Mayor Bloomberg runs afoul of locals complaining about traffic, noise, and sanitation gripes. [FoxNews via QueensCrap] Kensington: Talk about a virtual inferiority complex: Locals here lament that |
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| To Do: See Public Art Taking Over East Village Corner |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 10:57 am |
| Tags: Photo Op, Art, East Village, Photos |
| Photo: Illegal Art The big yellow-and-pink words "To Do" that turned up Sunday night on the corner of 6th Street and First Avenue are, interestingly enough, just that: To-do lists. The public-art collective Illegal Art installed some 3,744 three-inch-by-three-inch Post-Its on two street-level billboards, and passersby are encouraged to write their |
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| Hunting for Yuppies in Greenpoint |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 4:00 pm |
| Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Brooklyn, East Village, Gowanus, Greenpoint, Kensington, Manhattan, Queens, Soho |
| hot Queens nabe? [OuterB] East Village: So the new marketers of Stuy Town are spinning the open lawns there as "a park." But say some they’re not, technically. Ouch. [Atlantic Yards Report] Gowanus: Swank new condos are slated for the canal. How Venice — stench included. [BrooklynPaper] Greenpoint: The hood’s old-timers (or |
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| They Didn't Have Google Maps During the Last Tornado |
| Published: August 9, 2007, 4:00 pm |
| Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Bay Ridge, Coney Island, East Village, Forest Hills, Gowanus, Riverdale, South Slope |
| via Kinetic Carnival] East Village: St. Mark's Hotel is still the best one in the city for a cheap quickie. Yikes. [Gridskipper] Forest Hills: There's photographic proof that Trader Joe's is really coming. [Forest Hills 72] Gowanus: Put down $15 million for a warehouse on Third Avenue now, and just wait for zoning laws to go your way. |
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| Puts Your Run-of-the-Mill Harrowing Cab Ride in Perspective, Eh? |
| Published: August 24, 2007, 2:26 pm |
| Tags: Photo Op, Car Wrecks, East Village, Taxis |
| Photo: Carl Swanson The Cosmos Laundromat, on First Avenue near 9th Street, a few minutes ago. |
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| A New Look for the Old East Village Baths |
| Published: August 28, 2007, 12:31 pm |
| Tags: Intel, Bathhouses, East Village, Nostalgia |
| Russian and Turkish Baths on East 10th Street are getting just a little bit less old. A just-started renovation will add a new, larger sauna and steam bath to the East Village institution, where your bubbe and zayde bathed a century ago — when the Lower East Side tenements often didn't have their own plumbing — and customers today |
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| Closing Time: We're not exactly sure which "downtown hipsters" ... |
| Published: September 5, 2007, 11:30 am |
| Tags: Closing Time, East Village, Mo Pitkin S |
| We're not exactly sure which "downtown hipsters" are going to work themselves into a lather over the closing of an East Village club that has been around for a little more than two years, but the... |
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| All Peeping Toms to Third Avenue, Stat |
| Published: September 6, 2007, 4:10 pm |
| Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Bedford Park, Bushwick, Coney Island, Downtown Brooklyn, East Village, Williamsburg |
| pretty tall. [McBrooklyn] East Village: Until they install bigger venetian blinds at the new 110 Third Avenue condo, there's good voyeurism to be had for passersby — or good exhibitionism for lower-floor occupants, if they dig that sort of thing. [Curbed] Williamsburg: Boy, you gotta be pretty, uh, pissed off by dog drippings in your |
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| Trying to Get to Know Your East Village Neighbors? Don't. |
| Published: September 10, 2007, 4:05 pm |
| Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Carroll Gardens, East Village, Greenpoint, Harlem, Prospect Heights, Roosevelt Island |
| here. Funny, that. [11222] East Village: It's sweet when people move here from Virginia and invite their neighbors in for cookies. They'll learn. [East Village Idiot] Harlem: Less-than-accurate tour-bus guides are dissing the 'hood right into their megaphones … even while they plug the H&M there. [NYP] Prospect Heights: Who is scamming |
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| Rumor: Bowery Getting a 'Bucks |
| Published: September 13, 2007, 12:17 pm |
| Tags: Manhattan East Village, Manhattan Lower East Side, Retail |
| Racked has a very unconfirmed report that Starbucks is taking over the old Adams Restaurant Supply store on the southwest corner of Bowery and Houston. The tipster writes: "i guess that will be the first national retail outfit on the bowery since hammacher schlemmer closed their original store there a century ago!" Of course, as Racked notes, |
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| CurbedWire: Crunch Getting Company on Lafayette, Luquer Still Standing Tall, More |
| Published: September 13, 2007, 6:15 pm |
| Tags: Brooklyn Boerum Hill Cobble Hill Carroll Gardens, Curbedwire, Manhattan East Village, Manhattan Upper West Side Columbus Circle, Manhattan West Village |
| EAST VILLAGE—Back in April, no one took the bait on the rumbling at 402-408 Lafayette, the building that houses Crunch Gym and not much else. Now, an update: "Today workers put up the structure (above). They said they were putting up one more floor... Just looked at the Dept of buildings files on this building and they have an active |
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| Cabrini Polyclinic Sold Again; No Dorm? |
| Published: September 14, 2007, 10:59 am |
| Tags: Manhattan East Village, Real Estate Development, Real Estate Sold |
| to see one of our favorite East Village buildings get bounced around like a Long Island City hooker, but that's exactly what's happening to the old Cabrini Stuyvesant Polyclinic (and older German library) at 137 Second Avenue. In January, we spoke of the dorm plans for the 1883 landmark, but the Villager now reports that newish owner Herbert |
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| Weekend Open House Tour: Close Enough to Tickle a Pickle |
| Published: September 14, 2007, 6:14 pm |
| Tags: Manhattan East Village, Manhattan Lower East Side, Real Estate For Sale |
| to focus on the Lower East Side. Why? Because Sunday is that most brilliant of LES late-summer traditions, Pickle Day! We looked for Open Houses you could hit on your way to or from Picklefest on Orchard Street, and we turned up three that we feel are within comfortable walking distance. Location: 212 East Broadway, btwn |
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| CurbedWire: Young Israel Destructoporn, Metal Shutter Houses Details, East 10th Street Luxury Hotel? |
| Published: September 18, 2007, 6:23 pm |
| Tags: Curbedwire, Manhattan East Village, Manhattan Lower East Side, Manhattan West Chelsea Far West Side, Queens Long Island City |
| or what? [CurbedWire Inbox] EAST VILLAGE—Vanishing New York followed up on the rumors of East 10th Street's demise: "I went by and asked some shop employees what they knew about it. I was assured that they checked and double-checked, and buildings number 90, 86, and 84 are safe from demolition. That is excellent news. However, they also |
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