Parked: Food Truck Fest Comes to Governors Island on Sunday. 

Last Train Home. Sep 3 -- Oct 3 Daily @ IFC Center Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos, as all at once, a tidal wave of humanity attempts to return home by train. It is the Chinese New Year. The wave is made up of millions of migrant factory workers. The homes they seek are...

Locals Furious Over Mahoney Park Renovation- Lack Of Community Input Cited. " None of my phone calls were returned. The treatment has been very shabby, the attitude uncaring."  Ground was broken last Thursday morning, marking the long-awaited asphalt-to-turf renovation of Mahoney Playground on Jersey Street in New Brighton Staten Island. City...

Mahoney Park Renovation Draws Fire From ocals. 

Go Up, It's Great! Coney Island's & Deno's Wonder Wheel. Today in Coney Island, the Wonder Wheel's Birthday Party will be celebrated with suitable fanfare: live music by the Hungry March Band, the Banjo Rascals, and Curtis Eller, and a variety show featuring some of Coney's most colorful performers. The free show on the Boardwalk is...

how to simulate the tugboat feeling. you have tugboat life envy? I have tugboat life envy. Envy no more! now you can enjoy the same benefits tugwomen/men have in the comfort of your own home: 1. Sleep on a shelf in your closet. 2. Replace your closet door with a curtain. 3. Five hours after you go to sleep, have...

CYCLONES: Another big win for the Cyclones. See this story at BrooklynPaper.com . By Gersh Kuntzman The Brooklyn Paper Valley Cats 4 Cyclones 5 Friday, Sept. 3 at MCU Park The Cyclones took one step closer to the best winnering percentage in franchise history with a squeaker over the The Clones built a 5–0 lead with...

 happy labor day

Weekend service changes ahead of permanent Queens, Bronx reroutings. With Labor Day upon us, summer meets its unofficial end, but New York City Transit's ambitious work plans continue regardless of the season. For the immediate weekend, train service on Monday will operate on a Sunday schedule. Otherwise, we have some long-term changes to...

The Real Deal on hiatus. The Real Deal will be off Monday in observance of Labor Day and will return Tuesday. Enjoy the holiday weekend and as always, if you have a tip, e-mail news@therealdeal.com. TRD

Fire The Lazzzzor! Come to NYCR on September 11 and cut stuff like a pro. I could never use a coping saw very well, so I got bad grades in shop class. Sanding? Who has time? Good news! You don't even have to draw the stuff anymore to be able to cut it -- but you can if [...]

Top sales agents of the week. The Real Deal has ranked the top listing agents of the week based on the highest priced residential deals filed with the city. Top agents, from left: Cathy Franklin, Alexis Bodenheimer, Haidee Granger, Andrew Phillips, Amelia Gewirtz, Cathy Taub, Rosette Arons, Patrick Lilly and...

Laureate exudes sense of serene competence. The Laureate at 2150 Broadway Incrementally, though not without a few false steps, the Upper West Side is getting better. Some of its more recent developments, like the Corner at 200 West 72nd Street, have done the area no favors, but the general trend is one of improvement....

Elsewhere: No Vacation From Politics Edition. Bubba in the forgotten borough for McMahon Wayne Barrett wants Cuomo to endorse ABS: Anybody But Schneiderman Schneiderman calls himself "the frontrunner." The garbage of New York. Alvin Greene, the movie. The G.O.P is poised to make major pickups in governor's races....

Parting Shot: Drawing a Line in the Sand. A new beachfront Banksy piece in Hastings has been vandalized twice over by Team ROBBO (Photo: howaboutno)

Earl Slams Georgica Beach, East Hampton. Top: Looking South, 2nd fr top: looking North, 3rd fr top: young folks with debris washed in, last: young lady chased by wave to parking lot (both the wave and girl made it to the lot). East Hampton, NY/ Hurricane Earl may have fizzled thankfully, but not without taking a major...

NYC charter commission steers clear of land use hot spots. Six months after being formed, the city Charter Revision Commission issued its final report yesterday, declining to make any recommendations on the three thorniest land use issues before it. The 15-member panel appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg heard from deeply divided...

Reshma Robos, Mails Against Maloney. Reshma Saujani is out with a new piece of mail and a new robo-call that whacks Carolyn Maloney for holding a fundraiser with a financial lobbyist while Congress was debating FinReg. The robo says: Hi my name is Alicia and I am fed up with corruption in New York politics. You may...

Ancient Nubians Drank Lots of Beer. Back in the day, ancient civilizations like the Nubians drank beer for the same reasons modern man does today: Its therapeutic value.

Schneiderman Claims Victory with $380k, Has $1.3 Million. State Senator Eric Schneiderman will have $1.3 million for the final stretch of the attorney general primary, after raising $380,000 this period and loaning himself another $250,000. Schneiderman's campaign is claiming victory for raising the most money--about $100,000 more than...

Review> Map Quest. Jane Merkel wanders through Robert Gatje's new book of public squares, which is almost as good as being there

Giant Sprada Bag and the 500 Pound Money Tree. Behold the gigantic faux-bling in hand-welded, stainless steel! Chinese artist ‘s second solo show at Mike Weiss Gallery brings the fake, real and imaginary luxury items and glorifies/mocks our opulence-obsessed culture. Get your 110lb HiPhone here! "Real Fake," Liao...

U.S. Open Shove Match, Now With Good Audio. Video of an altercation between U.S. Open spectators at Arthur Ashe Stadium has been making the rounds online today, but the heated exchange that caused the moment of violence has been most inaudible, until now. Here's footage, shot from a different angle, that offers a better...

Bedbugs discovered at Google's Chelsea headquarters ... and more. 1. Bedbugs discovered at Google's Chelsea headquarters [NYO] 2. "Law and Order" star Mariska Hargitay buys $7.34 million Hamptons property [Real Estalker] 3. Billy Joel lowers price for Sagaponack home, now asking $19.9 million [Newsday] 4. Downtown's Flea Theater artist space...

Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Exists, People Have Seen It, It May Even Come Out This Fall. 

Chicken Coop Twitter and Flickr Slums. Filippo Minelli's ongoing photo/graffiti series Contradictions is all about context. As corporations "appropriate nature" and sell "intangible products" to the world, the photographer throws a global intervention. See more of his effective juxtaposing below. Contradictions will...

Always the sun. Seems like a nice little end-of-summer song from 1980... the Marine Girls ... featuring Tracey Thorn.

Alexico hit with $197M suit at Flatotel. Simon Elias (left), Flatotel at 135 West 52nd Street and Izak Senbahar Alexico Group is facing a $196.7 million suit at the Flatotel, after Atlas Capital accused the developer of defaulting on the property's mortgage loans. According to the lawsuit, filed in New York State...

Where The Attorney General Candidates Are This Weekend. The election is only 11 days away, and if the primary schedule weren't screwy enough as it is, candidates now may have to dodge Hurricane Earl when they are out on the hustings. Richard Brodsky: Local fairs in the upper Hudson Valley and the Columbia County fair on Saturday; On...

Rice Has $2.8 Million for the Home Stretch. Nassau District Attorney Kathleen Rice has $2.8 million dollars to spend in the last two weeks of the primary campaign for attorney general, according to her latest filing. Rice raised about $280,000 in the three weeks since the last filing, padding the more than $4 million...

First Medical Weed Commercial. It may not be as catchy as those Head On spots, but here's the first television commercial promoting the many benefits of medical weed by way of CannaCare, a Sacramento dispensary. The testimonial-style ad doesn't mention the very racist and deceptive "m-word" once and is...

 Swan Lake, NY – Four teens apologized and read essays on the meaning of the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashanah before they were sentenced in Sullivan County Court on Friday for ransacking a Jewish bungalow colony in April and spray painting gang graffiti, a swastika and spelling...

SL Green to gain $66M from 510 Madison. SL Green Realty is expected to gain $66 million profit on the sale of 510 Madison Avenue, according to a report from FBR Capital Markets cited by Nasdaq. The real estate investment trust owned $280.5 million of senior and mezzanine debt on the property that was paid in full when...

Brooklyn's Filthiest Restaurant. 

PM Listage: Vegas Goes Vegan; Mario Batali, Renaissance Man. 

HTC Doubles Up For Schneiderman. The Hotel Trades Council is out with a series of mailers for Eric Schneiderman that double as mailers for candidates in local Senate and Assembly races. The HTC is known for their sophisticated turnout operation, and the mailers show that they are willing to put resouces into...

Closing Bell: Holiday at the Flea. The Brooklyn Flea will be making its regular appearance this holiday weekend both in Fort Greene this Saturday and at Skylight One Hanson , across from the Flatbush Ave. Target, on Sunday. Check out some of the food vendors profiled in The New Brooklyn Cookbook or try your hand...

Lady Saw Shooting the Shit on the Streets of NYC. Kudos to LaRon Batchelor. Out of all the "small story" segments he's produced, the latest one on Dancehall Queen and fierce Jamaican deejay, Lady Saw, is the only one I've watched till the end and enjoyed. He caught up with the "raunchy" performer on the streets of NYC and...

Open Hardware Summit Comes to Queens. The Open Hardware Summit will be taking place in New York  on September 23rd. The event will be taking place at the New York Hall of Science in Queens and will be a venue to "present, promote and discuss the undergoing open source hardware movement". The Open Hardware Movement...

BlackRock to assess industry's CMBS losses. Investment management firm BlackRock was hired by state insurance regulators to evaluate the industry's potential losses from holding commercial mortgage-backed securities, Bloomberg news reported. By the end of the year, BlackRock will review more than 7,000 securities, the...

BlackRock to assess industry's CMBS losses. Investment management firm BlackRock was hired by state insurance regulators to evaluate the industry's potential losses from holding commercial mortgage-backed securities, Bloomberg news reported. By the end of the year, BlackRock will review more than 7,000 securities, the...

Video Interlude: No Reservations Preview: 100th Episode in Paris. 

Be Aware of the Generation Project, and Their Back-to-School Matching Funds Campaign. 

Care Given To Dangerous Trees In Central Park Slow. August 6, 2010 - Central Park. A private landscape company hired by the Central Park Conservancy prunes trees near the bridal path on the West side of the park.  (photo: Geoffrey Croft/NYC Park Advocates) Click on image to enlarge. According to documents obtained by the New...

Here's Your Labor Day Eugene Debs Speech (Read by Mark Ruffalo!). 

Union Pushes Positive Mailer Against Espada. Here's the latest piece of mail in the 33rd Senate District--this one courtesy of 32BJ. The mailer--directed at prime Democratic voters--doesn't even mention Pedro Espada Jr., focusing instead on the qualifications of challenger Gustavo Rivera. (As you can see, it makes a big...

Two Trees to buy building from Moinian. David and Jed Walentas, the father-and-son real estate team that heads Two Trees Management are in contract to buy a $129.5 million Chelsea office building from Joseph Moinian's the Moinian Group, the Observer reported. In an off-market deal, the company gave a hard deposit last...

Board Wrap: What's the Deal With Banana Taint? 

Building of the Day: 555 Prospect Place. The BOTD is a no-frills look at interesting structures of all types and from all neighborhoods. There will be old, new, important, forgotten, public, private, good and bad. Whatever strikes our fancy. We hope you enjoy. Address: 555 Prospect Place, corner of Classon Ave. Name:...

EaterWire: Snapshots From Johnny Iuzzini's Awesome Vacation and Other Holiday Weekend Sendoffs. 

Lost City Asks "Who Goes Tio Pepe?". The commenters on Eater didn't have much good to say about this stubborn Village joint. Guess I've been spoiling them with joints like Sardi's and Frost and Wo Hop. Never said these places are all good. Only said they are survivors, mysterious survivors. Who Goes There? Tio Pepe...

Stalled Williamsburg project gets new start. A stalled waterfront project at 11 Broadway in South Williamsburg is being revived by L+M Development Partners and Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group, with both parties closing this week on financing for the mixed-use development site, Crain's reported. The project will...

Newt Gingrich Suggests Federal Invasion of Ground Zero to Stop "Mosque". Republicans love to pontificate about deregulation, smaller government and less federal intrusion into local matters, except of course when it comes to Islam, then they're ready to abandon their core "principles" for political advancement. Take Newt Gingrich's latest asinine...

Jafar Panahi Barred from Traveling to Venice Film Festival by Iranian Government. 

Parked: Food Truck Fest Comes to Governors Island on Saturday. 

Development Watch: 777 Driggs. 777 Driggs, between South 3rd and 4th Streets, is moving towards completion. We don't know how long the building has actually been in construction but the new building permit was filed back in 2008. The project will have eight units when all is said and done. What do you think...

☞ SEE: Around Harlem This Weekend. The holiday weekend is here and there are not a lot of open houses going on but folks that are still in town should just go out and support all of Harlem's great businesses. Saturdays are all about going to the local farmers markets and celebrity Chef Marcus Samuelsson has...

Video Interlude: Rachel Maddow Teaches Jimmy Fallon How To Make a Sazerac. 

Just Break Up Already. 

"Like the postman," Hamptons agents show listings -- even with Earl at the door. From left: Judi Desiderio, Chris Burnside, Susan Breitenbach, Bob Gianos and Harald Grant While Labor Day weekend on the East End can present many hazards -- traffic jams and crowded beaches, for starters -- the specter of Hurricane Earl has presented a whole array of additional...

Celebrate Our Country's Hate for Day Laborers On Labor Day. Labor Day is quickly approaching, and though I can't be too sure, I believe it's the day that we celebrate minorities working jobs we won't, for 60 cents to our dollar. Like most Americans, when I think of Labor Day, I think of elongated weekends, hot dogs, and bidding summer a...

Investigating that weird thingamajig on the Second Avenue Chase branch. The last time we looked at the Chase branch on Second Avenue at 10th Street, Rev. Billy & the Church of Life After Shopping had placed some coal mountain mud in the lobby ... this afternoon, EV Grieve correspondent Blue Glass notes the presence of something else... This! There's...

 Brooklyn, NY – This morning, Brooklyn Senator Kevin Parker paid a visit at Lutheran Medical Center to Joel Klein who is one of the four members of the Shomrim Patrol Force who were shot while responding to an incident near 49th Street and 10th Avenue. "I commend you for...

Food Media: Colman Andrews to Head Jim Spanfeller's Food Website. 

Dog House | Nature Hates You | Googled. 

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Streetlevel: Baklava for Bay Ridge? The Cafe at Sam's Bakery opened earlier this month in Bay Ridge, but Sam (short for Samia) has been shipping her famous baklava all over the world via SamsBakery.com for a while now. We heard that Sam was giving out free baklava with the purchase of any coffee or espresso drink,...

The Shutter: Osso Buco, Cube 63 on Clinton, Sintir, and More Shutter. 

Eater Inside: Now Open: Steve Hanson's Newest, Atlantic Grill UWS. 

State Judge Upholds Temporary Restraining Order In Park Artist Fight. A vendor exercised his free speech rights in Union Square in May.  A State Judge upheld last week's ruling against the City and the Parks Department  from enforcing parts of the new park vending rules for artists.  (photo:  Mario Tama/Getty Images) Manhattan A State...

When Tennis Fans Fight: Go-Time at the U.S. Open. 

Optimum WiFi Expands Availability In Long Island. NYConvergence ORIGINAL According to a press release received by NYConvergence , Optimum WiFi has continued to expand and is now offered at 'hundreds' of local businesses across Long Island. The Optimum WiFi network, a service of Long Island based cable carrier Cablevision , has...

End-of-Week Reviews: 2.5 Stars for Saddle Peak Lodge; Agora in DC. 

Priciest, cheapest units to hit the market. From left: 88 Central Park West and 516 East 78th Street The priciest Manhattan home to hit the market this week is an eight-bedroom co-op in the Brentmore, at 88 Central Park West in Lincoln Square, according to Streeteasy.com. The 14-room, two-floor residence is on the market...

NYC Cab Video Artist Tells Us Why He's Screening on Taxi TV. The merry yesteryear of NYC taxi passengers getting free, televised therapy or cashing in for guessing "it's Darth Vader" is over. Nowadays, when cabbies get stabbed by Tea Party-liking bigots and get demonized by the press, the divide between driver and rider is vast. To talk...

"The Humpty Dance" Is Not Better Than "Sorry Again" by Velocity Girl. 

"The Humpty Dance" is Not Better Than Every Song Jawbreaker Ever Recorded. 

 New York, NY – Would-be Brooklyn-bound taxi riders say it's harder than ever to hail a cab back to the borough since late-night repairs began on the Brooklyn Bridge last week. Cabbies who don't want to deal with traffic backups on the Manhattan Bridge or pay to go through...

Quinn receives thousands in Vornado donations through campaign finance loophole. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Vornado Realty Trust through a loophole in campaign finance regulations, despite publicly praising a three-year-old law that was supposed to limit the amount that individuals...

The Plywood Report: Donatella, The Drink, City Sandwich, and More Coming Soon. 

One of the Koch Brothers Chips In For Cox on Long Island. William Koch of the newly-famous Koch Brothers--profiled recently in both New York and the New Yorker --chipped in for Long Island congressional candidate Chris Cox yesterday, according to an FEC filing. Koch isn't as politically active as his brothers Charles and David--who...

Open House Picks. The selection of open houses this holiday weekend is so woefully slim that it's not even worth trying to come up with some picks this week. If there's anything you think's worth checking out, feel free to post links in the comments.

Reality TV Fatigue: Reality shows, even ones that pit.... 

NYC High: Inez E. Dickens. "NYC High": A portrait series and daily feature in which we introduce you to one New York City council member per day, as drawn by Lauri Apple, until Election Day 2010 (Nov. 2). Name: Inez E. Dickens (D), District Nine: Manhattan Reps: Central Harlem, Morningside Heights, parts...

Complaints Dept: Early Customer Says Whiskey Brooklyn Disrespects Whiskey. 

DEALFEED: 10 Downing. 

Hurricane Earl To Avoid NYC. Downgraded to a pitiful category 1 storm, Hurricane Earl isn't expected to cause any real chaos for residents of New York City, although it is expected to trounce the eastern end of Long Island a little. Despite Earl's weakness, it will still provide a much needed break to the...

Bloomberg Administration Continues Harassing Artists Even After Court Injunction - Artists. Despite the issuance of two court orders temporarily restraining the city from enforcing new rules that curtail art vending in four city parks, Department of Parks & Recreation officials have continued to try to enforce them, artists say , according to City Limits. Parks...

 Islamabad – Pakistan's Taliban on Friday threatened to launch attacks in the United States and Europe "very soon" and dismissed a move by Washington to add the group to its terrorism blacklist. The United States on Wednesday said it had added Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan...

Fannie's path to ownership. If you fit the profile -- typically buyers with little cash on hand or small-scale investors looking for a deal on a foreclosed house -- a little publicized national lending program could be just what you need this fall. Here's what it offers: -- Minimal down payments -- 3...

Monk's Trunk: Quality Children's Consignment is Open! Carrie and I are pleased to announce that Monk's Trunk is open for business . We are also really pleased that Time Out New York has already taken notice of our little shop . To quote, Owner Carrie McLaren hopes to showcase a carefully curated collection of gently used (and...

Mapping Out Bruce Springsteen's Asbury Park. On Sunday Jimmy Fallon opened the 2010 Emmy's with a "Glee"-inspired take on Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." And the night before indie rockers Vampire Weekend covered Springsteen's "I'm Goin' Down" at a concert in Vancouver. The attention from entertainers usually geared...

Open House Picks: Six Months Later. Comment: Not so bad. Open House Picks 3/5/10 [Brownstoner] Previous Six Months Later Posts [Brownstoner]

Week in Review: Weekly Rewind: Gilt's Bad Week and Tim Gunn is Totes Celibate. 

State Issues Temporary Restraining Order Against Parks Dept. Over New Artist Vending Rules. On Wednesday, a state judge issued a  temporary restraining  order against the City and the Parks Department from  enforcing parts of the new park vending rules for artists for 5 days. According to Robert Lederman, a plaintiff in one of the three lawsuits filed so...

Putting All Those Endorsements To Use. Eric Schneiderman is out with an ad that finally answer the question: what does one do with all of those endorsements? Here, the Washington Heights senator gets the gang of electeds who have endorsed him to stump in front of the camera, and it's a whole rainbow of prime...

Public transit investment paces job creation. As a solid follow-up to my morning rant about the lack of subway expansion in New York City comes word that, as I posited, public transportation investment is the nation's leading in job creation. AltTransport highlights a new (PDF) report by the Transportation Equity Network...

Peter Orzag Makes the Jump From Tabloids to Broadsheet, Takes Up 'New York Times' Column. Former White House budget director Peter Orzag will begin writing columns for The New York Times opinion page next week, the paper announced today. Editor Andrew Rosenthal praised Mr. Orzag as "one of the most recognizable names in economics" in a release. His column...

We Three Things | In My Cups. I've taken up pottery and have become more obsessed by it: I see perfect pulling everywhere I look.

'Condé Nast meets Demand Media': New Platform Connects Indie Publishers with Top-Tier Advertisers. 

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Open> Restaurant. M Burger by Dirk Denison Architects

Tiger's former mistress buys $2 million pad on Park Avenue. Days after rumors swirled regarding Tiger Woods' purchase of a Hudson Street apartment , his former mistress Rachel Uchitel has purchased a three-bedroom, three-bedroom apartment on Park Avenue, TMZ reported, though the address is unknown. The unit was asking $2 million, but...

Hoaxes: Cannibal Restaurant Was a Hoax by Vegetarian Activists. 

Florida Pastor to Counter Mosque with '9/11 Christian Center'. Plenty of conservatives have made loud remarks about the so-called Ground Zero Mosque, but Bill Keller — a Florida televangelist who hosts the online ministry Live Prayer, and who confusingly shares a name with the executive editor of The New York Times — has done the...

Gilt Could Face FTC Penalty: Looks like WWD picked up on.... 

Intelligence: Where Will Fashion People Eat During Mercedes Benz Fashion Week? 

Mindblowing: Uh, Is There a Lot Going On Here or Is It Just Us? Tassel-Heel Edition.. 

☞ WALK: East Harlem's Famous Murals. One of the most dramatic sections of East Harlem is at the intersection of 104th Street and Lexington. Not only is this the nexus of some great restaurants that have appeared in the area (El Paso Taqueria, Lexington Social, East Harlem Cafe) but also the fact that it represents...

 New York – A key financial backer of the proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero once contributed to a U.S.-designated terror group. Egyptian-born businessman Hisham Elzanaty, who made what is described as a "significant investment" in the Ground Zero mosque...

Topless Ride, Crucifiction and Other Recent FEMEN Fun. What have the girls of Ukrainian Feminist protest group FEMEN been up to since splashing topless in a public fountain to protest water outage? They took a long trip with a local biker organization to plant their flag at the monument for Ukrainian poet and patriot Taras...

Seductive Light Switch Turns on When You Blow in its Ear. 

The Forward Relaunches 'The Jew And The Carrot' Blog In Time For The High Holidays. 

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Gretchen Morgenson Given The NYFWA's Elliott V. Bell Award. 

Intelligence: Fan Us on Facebook! Help us Get to 1,000 Friends Before Fall. 

 Lebanon- The current round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks will not succeed, Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said during a "Jerusalem Day" commemoration speech on Friday. Nasrallah characterized the talks as "stillborn" and said, "Jerusalem, and not even one of...

A Beer at...: Milano's, a Mix of Italian, Irish, and Old New York. 

Marlene, 1988. Clayton Patterson's photo page, in which he publishes work from his vast archives, is my favorite feature of the newly launched Villager spinoff, The East Villager . This week, Patterson presents this photo of Marlene Bailey in Tompkins Square Park from 1988. You may know her...

Wi-Fi To Be Installed on Tri-State Area Trains. Both the New Jersey Transit and the MTA have plans to install wireless internet for the passenger trains by early 2011.   NJ Transit is looking for a private company to install and provide the service for no cost to the agency and have not yet released what their customer...

The Weekend List: Hurricane Earl Edition. It's Labor Day Weekend, the weekend of Hurricane Earl, but there's still much to do. Movies: Soul Kitchen, The Kids are All Right, Inception, The American at BAM The Switch, Eat Pray Love, Avatar 3D, The American, Last Exorcism at the Pavilion. Music: Sept 3-4, 9-10 Help Save...

 New York – A father of young children, Forer is quite past the age where hanging out in Southern California hotspots late into the night is appealing. But he was out because his children's school Cheder Menachem had a $500,000 prize on the line. Forer was volunteering with...

Columbia seeks more space in Inwood. Columbia University is seeking to acquire more land along the Harlem River to legally construct a new sports complex at Broadway and 218th Street in Inwood, DNAinfo reported. A city law requires property owners on the Manhattan shoreline to set aside a predetermined percentage...

Pulp Fiction, On the Big Screen. Good news for Pulp Fiction fans in NYC: The IFC Center cinema in the West Village is showing the movie on the big screen, Friday through Sunday at midnight only.

Rumormongering: Another Top Chef All-Stars Rumor: Antonia Lofaso. 

Guerrilla Street Painters Release Video. Earlier this year, bikers poured 130 gallons of paint on Berlin. 2000 cars dragged the puddles around, turning the Rosenthaler Platz into a scattered splatter-rainbow. Now there's video. IEPE and crew take credit for the water-based, environmentally-friendly paint attack,...

Cycle News Shutters. 

Party at the Green Building. Over the weekend, a New Orleans-style brass band marched down Union Street, followed by a well-dressed young man — possibly a groom — on a white, wooden, four-wheeled horse, who was being pushed down the sidewalk by a parade of masquerading revelers in formalwear. Pumping...

Staycation: Bannerman Castle. For many of us, staycations are this year's vacations. Instead of the cottages and castles of the Continent, visit one of New York's fascinating house museums. Each week, for the entire summer, we'll alternate between a site in New York City, or one in greater New York State....

Nightlife: Inside the Weird and Lucrative World of Shot Girls. 

"The Humpty Dance" is Also Not Better Than Every Single Fucking Sebadoh Song. 

Schneiderman Gets An Endorsement On Rice's Home Turf. Eric Schneiderman is out today with an endorsement from Ricardo Montano, a Suffolk County legislator and former assistant attorney general. The endorsement is significant because Rice is going to need a big turnout on Long Island to offset Schneiderman's base in Manhattan and...

Trans Acne: Swedish cool-kid label Acne has teamed.... 

Giltgate 2010: Gilt Will Contact Customers Whose Prices Increased at Checkout. 

 Brussels – The EU's trade chief apologized Friday for blaming Jews and the "Jewish lobby" in Washington for blocking Mideast peace as the embarrassed EU head office quickly distanced itself from his comments. Karel De Gucht, 56, said he did not mean to stigmatize Jewish...

Summer started slow, but brokers saw uptick. From the September issue: The National Association of Realtors reported last month that home sales nationwide dropped by 27 percent between June and July -- a phenomenon largely attributed to the expiration of federal housing tax credits. The bleak news sent the stock market...

Poll: New Yorkers Susceptible to Irrational Fear of Islamic Centers. No longer a bastion of pluralism and tolerance, according to a New York Times poll, two-thirds of city residents want a proposed Islamic center near the WTC site moved to another location. With the 9th anniversary of the September 11th attacks approaching, the results aren't all...

The Magnificent Seven. Coming soon to a saloon (or brasserie) near you.

Cycle World Shutters. 

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DOWNTOWN: Could this be the new green heart of Downtown? Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com . By Andy Campbell The Brooklyn Paper The city has just added a little California dreaming to its plans to give Downtown a sparkling new park. The Economic Development Corporation just named San...

MEDIA: RIDIN' THE CYCLONES: MEDIA: Backman meets Mets owner — to talk stadium renovations?! Come on! Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com . By Gersh Kuntzman for The Brooklyn Paper The Mets are in free fall. Everyone is speculating that Cyclones skipper Wally Backman is about to get the top job in Flushing. And sure enough, Mets owner Jeff...

Listicles Dept.: The Top Ten Quotes from Jeffrey Steingarten's New York Diet. 

Grimm Maintains Financial Lead Over Allegretti. The fundraising numbers are in for the Republican primary in New York's 13th Congressional District, with Michael Grimm maintaining his financial advantage over Michael Allegretti. Grimm reported $385,160 in cash on hand for the stretch run. Allegretti reported having $155,136...

Another Perspective on 25 Washington. Here's another angle on the rooftop action at 25 Washington in Dumbo, which will consist of penthouse apartments and cabanas. In related news, 25 Washington is also on the September 7th LPC agenda "to establish a master plan governing the future installation of windows," writes...

Chill The Retsina! "Athena" Greek Eatery Opening On Smith Street. Chill the Retsina! Great Greek food has been sorely underrepresented in the neighborhood for a really long time. That is hopefully about to change with the opening of "Athena," a family-owned Mediterranean restaurant at 213 Smith Street. "Athena" will offer traditional greek...

Drew Nieporent, Baller: Guess who outbid Donald Trump's $19,000.... 

Update: Creators of Bushwick Rooftop Griffin Sculpture Speak! 

 If you haven't checked out the latest listings in the Brownstoner Marketplace , now would be a great time to do so!

Sally Singer on Fashion and Features: "Fashion can be exceedingly insular and.... 

Real estate funds top other investments. Despite bleak market conditions, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds in the real estate sector have rebounded during the past year, the Wall Street Journal reported. Real estate has been the top-performing U.S.-stock fund category this year, through August, with a 13.7...

Tom Martinez, Witness: Rockaway Surfer. 

☞ EAT: Bier International Brunch Service. Bier International promised a full menu by the Labor Day holiday and it now seems brunch will also be served this weekend + Monday. Price ranges are $7-$14 for main items including buttermilk pancakes, crab cakes benedict along with steak and eggs. This is probably the one new...

Video Interlude: Baby Carrots Are the World's Most Xtreme Snack Now. 

65 Prospect West Flips! It's been quite a ride for 65 Prospect Park West! Despite its park views and private parking, the three-story house was in rough enough shape when it hit the market in early 2009 that it only ended up fetching $1,400,000. Then, it seems, the new buyer fixed the place up and...

Project Runway: Ep. Six: Who Looks Like "a cross between Snooki and the Flintstones?". 

SI sees 90% rise in scheduled foreclosures. (source: PropertyShark) Newly scheduled residential foreclosure auctions rose by 90 percent in Staten Island last month, reversing the dip seen in July and prolonging the borough's years-long pattern of dramatic ups and downs, according to new data from PropertyShark.com. Still,...

Hot Debates: Jeffrey Steingarten Calls Brooklyn Food Writers 'Dangerous'. 

Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Character Matrix. Back when Saturday mornings were all about watching cartoons and getting brainwashed by cereal commercials, Hanna-Barbera ruled the airwaves. They were responsible for creating some of the most iconic animated characters to ever steal the hearts of children across the United...

A Labor Day Arrangement. An easy, impressive D.I.Y. floral arrangement for a Labor Day party.

Betsey Johnson Dunzo?: Yesterday, Steven Madden took over a.... 

 Vienna – The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency has asked Israel to consider signing up to the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Israel refuses to confirm it possesses a nuclear arsenal but it is widely considered to be the Middle East's only nuclear power. A...

 Manhattan, NY – Never mind the raccoons. Here come the skunks. Earlier this week, we at City Room posted a tale about the newly found brashness of New York City's raccoons. But several readers commenting on that article told us: Hold on. What about the skunks? For...

 Brooklyn, NY – In the wake of the second incident involving gunfire in Boro Park this week, Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) is calling upon NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly to increase the overall number of police officers assigned to the 66th precinct and to add NYPD foot...

"The Humpty Dance" is Not Better Than "No Rain". 

Contemporary Art at MoMA: Pretty Good, Really. 

The Atlantic's September Issue Comes To The iPad. 

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Food Safety: Your Home Kitchen Might Fail a Restaurant Health Inspection. 

Brian Hoffman Named Creative Executive Officer Of Hoffman Media. 

Lilla Cafe Opens Near Columbia St. Waterfront. A reader, as well as BoCoCa Land, noticed that the new restaurant we spotted at 126 Union Street has opened its doors. Back then we were promised a small menu with seasonal foods, and it looks like they lived up to their word. The menu for now-named Lilla Cafe only features...

With pro athlete clients like Randy Winn, brokers need to be on their game. Randy Winn, Nelson Cabassa, Adam Modlin and Trump Place Talk of Tiger Woods' rumored Manhattan bachelor pad abounded this week, breeding envy among real estate agents who would no doubt love to work with the wealthy golf star. But finding homes for professional athletes comes...

Good News/Bad News: The Food Doc files an early.... 

DEALFEED: JoeDoe. 

Last day to help the East Side Community High School win $500,000. Over on 12th Street between Avenue A and First Avenue, students and teachers are outside with computers to get people to vote online so that the school can win $500,000 in the Kohl's Cares for Kids contest. The Villager has a nice feature on this.... As part of the competition,...

Pavement to Appear on Jimmy Fallon, Possibly With You As Their Third Guitarist. 

Watch B.o.B and Rivers Cuomo Stumble Through Dreams in the "Magic" Video. 

Your Labor Day Weekend at the Movies. 

Chic in Review | Going Gaga for Halloween. All the fashion news of the week that's fit to reprint.

Giltgate 2010: Giltgate 2010: More Overcharged Victims Come Forward, Statement. 

City audit finds park concession operators reneged on contracts. The operator of the Terrace on the Park catering hall in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, the historic, T-shaped remnant of the 1964 World's Fair, is coming under fire for failing to build promised new facilities on the site, according to the Daily News. In a new audit, city...

Verizon Brings 3D to the NFL. NYConvergence ORIGINAL Last night, NYConvergence went to the New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ., perhaps the most high-tech stadium in the NFL . Though the Giants were playing the Patriots in an exhibition game, the reason we went was not to see how they looked on...

New Foreclosures Drop in Brooklyn. Foreclosure results for the five boroughs were mixed in August, according to numbers just released by Property Shark . Staten Island and Queens saw increases in both year-over-year and month-over-month numbers, while the Bronx, Manhattan and Brooklyn saw declines in both...

OTBKB Music: The Damnwells at The Rockwood Stage 2. They took the tables out of The Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2 last night so they could fit in sold out crowds at the two shows by The Damnwells.  I was there at the early show and heard the band play their new album (which may or may not be called No One Listens to [...]

 New York, NY – Don't read too much into President Obama's latest efforts to butter up the mayor. Whispering his name for Treasury secretary didn't work two years ago. Why would it now? Back in 2008, both Obama and his Republican rival, Sen. John McCain, were chasing...

 Borough Park, NY – Four members of an Orthodox Jewish volunteer patrol in Brooklyn were shot Thursday night after they followed and confronted a man in a vehicle who had been acting suspiciously, the police and witnesses said. The men, members of the Brooklyn South Shomrim...

Beefs: Eddie Huang Trademarks the 'Chairman Bao' Name. 

Open Thread. 

Last Chance: Last day to savor this end-of-season.... 

☞ READ: HCZ New Building Met with Resistance. The New York Daily News featured a story today on how the planned $100 million Harlem Children's Zone building on West 129th Street has met resistance with some of the surrounding housing project residents. While the 130,000 square foot building that will be breaking ground this...

The McDonald's Mc10:35: The McDonald's Mc10:35 is a sandwich.... 

Your Labor Weekend at the Movies. 

FishbowlNY Newsstand: Your Morning At A Glance. 

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We, The Pizza: Heating Up The DC Pizza Scene. I recently returned from a road trip to the Midwest during which I visited seven different pizza places. I had the opportunity to expand my pizza horizons, trying a variety of different pizza styles and topping combinations. Some were excellent... and others... not so much. But...

Karl Lagerfeld for Hogan Spring 2011: Chanel, Fendi, and his own eponymous.... 

 Mainz, Germany – The Jewish community in Mainz, the German city that was a centre of European Judaism for centuries, opened a new synagogue Friday on the site of a predecessor building, which was ransacked by the Nazis in 1938. The futuristic building, which features...

A Tree Falls in Park Slope. The hurricane isn't even here yet but there's already a tree down. A reader just sent in this photo taken from 6th Avenue looking west on Berkeley Place in Park Slope. "Police, ambulance, and fire here. No one looks hurt," says the tipster. "The school maintenance guy thought...

The wild era of subway graffiti 1970-1989: at the city's worst, a new art form flourishes along transit lines. PODCAST #111 Art. Vandalism. Freedom. Blight. Creativity. Crime. Graffiti has divided New Yorkers since it first appeared on walls, signs and lampposts in the late 1960s. Its ascent paralleled the city's sunken financial fortunes, allowing simple markings to evolve into...

Campaign Trail: Choose Your Own Adventure YouTube Commercial: by TipEx. 

A Week of Inspiration On and Off the Platform: Free Magazines and Literary Readings. 

Make My Day Moment. Liz Benjamin at YNN has been tracking the fight over the collection of taxes on cigarettes sold by Indian scofflaws-and the comments from the Senecas should have Governor Paterson locked and loaded: "Despite two consecutive days of unfavorable court rulings, Gov. David Paterson...

 Cairo – Egypt has canceled a visit by Iran's foreign minister to protest comments in which he accused Arab leaders of betrayal for attending the new round of Mideast peace talks in Washington. Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki had been scheduled to visit Cairo...

Listage: Judge Postpones Cipriani Auction For One Month; Fashion Designer Uses Veggies To Design Spring Line. 

Weekend Events. The Wonder Wheel's 90th Birthday Party Join us for a grand celebration of Deno's Wonder Wheel's 90th Birthday on September 4th in Coney Island. Not only will this be hosted by The World Famous *BOB*, but there will be music featured by The Hungry March Band, The Banjo Rascals &...

Clickage: Mad Men Discover the MacBook; Paris Hilton Busted by TwitPic. 

Moinian's 1775 Broadway facing foreclosure. Joseph Moinian's 1775 Broadway , the 26-story office tower that once housed Newsweek magazine, has been hit with a foreclosure lawsuit by a unit of Deutsche Bank AG, according to Bloomberg news. The developer, who has renamed the building 3 Columbus Circle in conjunction with an...

Listage: World Food Price Spike; How to Sell Jell-O Shots. 

Morning Read:. Kirsten Gillibrand has spent more than $3 million in the last two months on her re-election bid The Times calls out Carl Paladino, Rick Lazio, and Rudy Giuliani for "playing to people's worst instincts." A payroll tax holiday may be coming The DN says voters in Harlem...

Notes From the Underground | Justin Bond. The notorious Justin Bond delivered a string of songs in an intimate rooftop performance overlooking the Lower East Side.

☞ BESPOKE: Life Drawing Class at Casa Frela. Saturday September 11, 12:00- 2:00 PM, life Drawing Session at Casa Frela Gallery, $15 Admission. For starters and art veterans, Casa Frela will be offering up a life drawing class with a live model present. Any of the following materials can be used: a drawing pad- 11"x14",...

 New York, NY – A federal appeals court has overturned a verdict that denied the heirs of a Holocaust victim -- including a Manhattan man -- ownership of a valuable drawing they claim was looted by the Nazis. The case involves a 1917 work by Austrian expressionist Egon...

Cipriani auction postponed, FDIC sells stake in $760M property loan portfolio ... and more. 1. Cipriani auction postponed by judge [Post] 2. Former Parks Commissioner slams city's 15 Penn Plaza decision [HuffPo] 3. Unlike in 2006, tenants now front and center in battle for control of Stuy Town [NYT] 4. FDIC sells 40 percent stake in $760M property loan portfolio...

Lit Up: Paterson 'Frustrated' With Cigarette Tax Delay. For the moment, bargain-hunting smokers can still hike upstate to Indian reservations for cheap cartons of cigarettes — and  David Paterson is less than pleased. In June, the Governor signed the far-reaching bill that would force retailers on reservations to buy cigarettes at...

Friday Links. Camping in a Brooklyn Wilderness [NY Times] Four Members of Jewish Patrol Are Shot [NY Times] Girl's Death in Brooklyn Prompts Police Inquiry [NY Times] Brooklyn Gets Ready for West Indian Day Parade [NY Daily News] Taxi Drivers Want to Avoid Brooklyn Bridge [NY Daily News] Free...

 West Bank – Palestinian Authority security forces detained two men on Thursday suspected of involvement in a deadly shooting attack in which four Israelis were killed on Tuesday. The four victims were residents of the Beit Hagai settlement in the West Bank. They were...

Swagapalooza Comes to NYC. On Thursday, September 9th, highly followed twitterers, bloggers and digital influencers will gather in New York to judge five-minute auditions from the creators of the latest and unexpected products in media. Taking place at Touch on 240 W 52nd St, attendance will be limited to...

 Williamsburg, NY – The historic Williamsburg Savings Bank building — the Williamsburg version, not the iconic tower version in Fort Greene — is on the market. There is no asking price; offers are being accepted, according to Mark Lively and Brendan Maddigan, who are...

Top Web stories. The most viewed Web stories from yesterday's The Real Deal blog: 1. Pols, real estate pros divided on new disclosure law 2. When New Yorkers move, where do they go? 3. Business suites provider secures 4th NYC site

Happy Hurricaine Earl Day, Y'All! Yep, today's the day Hurricaine Earl is supposed to hit NYC (or Eastern Long Island, rather). But DON'T WORRY! The MTA has a gameplan ! Perhaps you might recall the day in August, 2007 it basically just rained v. fucking hard, and the subway system was pretty much just shut down...

 Israel – The IDF has launched an experimental project to recruit ultra-Orthodox women for the first time, tailoring the service to their way of life and providing them with a sought after profession. The project's success is not yet clear. The army recruited a few dozen...

 London – A group of Jewish teenagers have been robbed at knifepoint in Hendon. The three 16-year-old boys were followed by a blue car at 2.30am on Thursday as they walked home through Manor Hall Avenue. After noticing the car, they ran and hid behind bushes in a garden....

NYC's Metropolitan Opera Expands HD Broadcasts. The Metropolitan Opera is expanding its broadcasts of live performances to 1500 venues in 48 countries, 300 more than last year, including another 100 theaters in the US. The HD satellite simulcasts draw more than 2 million viewers a year who pay from $18-$25 a ticket, and has...

The 8 types of cyclists you'll encounter on East Village streets. At several junctures during the summer, we've had posts updating the developments on the new First Avenue and Second Avenue bike lanes... and each post prompted a spirited debate in the comments: Pedestrians vs. cyclists. Cyclists vs. cyclists. Everybody vs. cyclists. Seemingly....

Tug Race Countdown 2. So if you're not tied up with your labor on Labor Day Sunday, see you at the tug race.  It's a festive waterfront event, where vessels that come to compete are the ones not engaged at that hour.  It's part Labor Day picnic. Will Sarah Ann be there? Or Laura K. Meagan Ann?...

At the Mars Bar, hipster entourage forced to drink Bud, pay with cash. A little slice-of-Mars-Bar life via Matt Rosen at les pensées insouciantes : Curly bleached blonde ‘do — sides buzzed... Skin-tight, distressed boatneck top, with a low enough scoop to show off some of that tasty —- and Manlyâ„¢ —- burger meat... Obligatory skinny jeans...

Mikey's Pet Shop mural neutered. Given the closure of Mikey's Pet Shop on Seventh Street near Avenue A last fall... it was inevitable that the Chico mural would one day vanish.... Before: ... which happened yesterday.... It's the second Chico mural to be painted over this week ....

It takes a Ferrari tow truck..... ...to tow a Ferrari... here on 10th Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue yesterday ... via EV Grieve correspondent Blue Glass....

Happy Birthday, Louis Sullivan. Today, September 3, marks the birthday of renowned architect Louis Sullivan—the "father of modernism"—who would be 154 years old today. Sullivan was born in Boston, the son of an Irish immigrant father (who'd come to America in 1847, the worst year of the Irish Potato...

"Judicial Deference to Unaccountable Agencies, and Reality in the Flatbush Avenue Lane Closure"--or, what's missing in the ESDC response to NY1. 

Oh Hey There, Just Takin' My IGUANA for a Little Ol' Walkeroo. We have our share of, um, personalities in the Slope.  Of course, our weirdos are pretty tame, and all things considered, they don't even flirt with the levels of strange in some of the other city nabes.  But I should be used to seeing some odd shit every now and then,...

Searching for political will for subway expansion. For a few pieces that I'm readying for next week, I've delved into the political history of numerous subway expansion efforts. Most resemble the failed Staten Island subway plans in that the Transit Authority proposes an extension, the Board of Estimates approves the program,...

New Yorkers Unsure About the Mosque? The NY Times has an interesting report on the reaction of New Yorkers to the Ground Zero mosque-and what's most interesting to us, is the headline that states, "New Yorkers Unsure of Islamic Center, Poll Finds." Yet, when you read the story, what you find is the exact...

MEDIA: CYCLONES: MEDIA: Lucas Duda — a ‘Dude' with the Cyclones is now a Met. Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com . for The Brooklyn Paper You know him as the newest Met, but we at The Brooklyn Paper remember Lucas Duda as a great young power-hitting kid. Duda was a star on the 2007 Cyclones, even setting a team...

FASHION: Slow Food ideal + fashion = Brooklyn. See this story at BrooklynPaper.com . By Michèle De Meglio The Brooklyn Paper A team of Brooklyn designers wants to change the way you shop. Textile Arts Center on Carroll Street in Park Slope is teaming up with nearly a dozen eco-friendly apparel and jewelry designers to host a...

Free Walking Tour of Coney Island Sunday. Head out to Coney Island for a free guided walking tour Sunday, Sept. 5 at 11 a.m. The tour will cover all the historic buildings along Surf Avenue, as well as some of Coney's existing landmarks. There will be historic pictures so you can see what the buildings once were; and a...

LETTERS: Letters: The mailbag is still full of the PPW bike lane. See this story at BrooklynPaper.com . for The Brooklyn Paper To the editor, I think that the additional bike paths on the perimeter of Prospect Park were ill thought-out and dangerous ( "Bike lane war! Prospect Park West a conflict zone," June 25 ). Pedestrians have to look...

MEDIA: CYCLONES: MEDIA: Lucas Duda — a ‘Dude' with the Cyclones and a Met now. Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com . for The Brooklyn Paper You know him as the newest Met, but we at The Brooklyn Paper remember Lucas Duda as a great young power-hitting kid. Duda was a star on the 2007 Cyclones, even setting a team...

CYCLONES: A monster win over the Lake Monsters. See this story at BrooklynPaper.com . By Gersh Kuntzman The Brooklyn Paper Lake Monsters 1 Cyclones 8 Thursday, Sept. 2 at MCU Park The Cyclones got on the board first on Juan Centeno's double in the second. But the team broke it open in the fourth, thanks to aggressive...

EVENT: It wouldn't be Labor Day without the carnival. See this story at BrooklynPaper.com . By Damian Harris-Hernandez for The Brooklyn Paper Scantily clad revelers and stilt-dancing moco jumbies return to the streets of Brooklyn this weekend for the annual West Indian Carnival Festival. The Labor Day institution, which will take...

RIDIN' THE CYCLONES: Backman meets Mets owner — and talk stadium renovations?! Come on! See this story at BrooklynPaper.com . By Gersh Kuntzman for The Brooklyn Paper The Mets are in free fall. Everyone is speculating that Cyclones skipper Wally Backman is about to get the top job in Flushing. And sure enough, Mets owner Jeff Wilpon stops by MCU Park on Thursday...

FOODIE-IN-CHIEF: Cake Man accused of giving staff crumbs — plus all the other food gossip. See this story at BrooklynPaper.com . By Kristen V. Brown for The Brooklyn Paper With the lackadaisical days of summer drawing to a close, Brooklyn's restaurant scene is revving up. Here's the best of the borough's openings, closings, and, of course, restaurant gossip. •...

Threatened by Earl, LIRR cancels East End service. Just five days after restoring full service past Jamaica, the Long Island Rail Road is again canceling trains. This time, though, the cause for the service changes is a hurricane bearing down on Long Island. Nature is a fickle beast, and service to the East End of the Island...

an old shot. meatpacking district 10/14/08

Atlantic Avenue Tunnel Tours Saved! BP Markowitz Prevails Upon Bob Diamond. On Wednesday, Bob Diamond — discoverer of the long-lost Long Island Railroad tunnel under Atlantic Avenue — informed the Brooklyn Eagle that he was packing it in and leaving Brooklyn. Diamond has been long frustrated by the city's bureaucracy in his attempts to break through...

Announcing Brooklyn Reading Works 2010-2011 Season. Presenting another great year at Brooklyn Reading Works. One Thursday a month at the Old Stone House come to a themed reading by authors of absorbing fiction, poetry, memoir and drama curated by talented writers and editors. All readings are at 8PM. $5 donation includes wine,...

 Buenos Aires, Argentine – The Simon Wiesenthal Centre said Thursday in Buenos Aires that the armed Islamic organization Hezbollah has dormant cells in South America that are ready to carry out attacks in Argentina. "A reliable official US source with which we held a...

No No Words Daily Pix for a Few Days…. …because Hugh has been very busy with a programming/web design job. When he gets a moment he will post incredible new pictures. Stay tuned…

 Berlin, Germany – German authorities have stopped the flow of public funds to the country's only independent Jewish congregation, reportedly due to the failure to submit audited accounts covering 2001-2006. Adass Yisroel, a traditional congregation in Berlin, is also...

 Israel – The Education Ministry cut 20 million shekels in aid to hareidi-religious institutions on Thursday. The ministry said the funding was cut because the schools was not teaching core subjects as they were required.

Police Step Up Inwood Parks Patrols After Female Jogger is Attacked. INWOOD — A female jogger said she was physically and sexually attacked in Inwood Hill Park this week prompting police to step up patrols at local parks. The woman told police she was jogging alone in a secluded area of...

 Borough Park, NY – NYPD of the 66th Precinct are on the scene for shooting that involved a Boro Park Shomrim member. Police are calling for a level-1 mobilization for the shooting at 46th Street and 10th Avenue. Hatzolah on the scene, sll injuries are minor, mobilization...

 United Kingdom – Tony Blair regrets banning fox hunting, but not invading Iraq. He was captivated by Princess Diana, intimidated by Queen Elizabeth II. He heaps praise on President George W. Bush but calls his close colleague Gordon Brown a man of "zero" emotional...

 Jerusalem – Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, the rabbinical authority in charge of the Kotel (Western Wall), made public a new procedure Thursday regarding bringing Torah scrolls into the Kotel. Under the new guidelines, individuals who wish to bring in a Torah scroll to the...

East Coast-West Coast Rivalries: Eddie Haung Trademarks the "Chairman Bao" Name. 

 Brooklyn, NY – Police are searching for a man wanted for an attempted robbery at a Brooklyn D train station last month. Authorities say on the morning of August 17 inside the 50th Street station in Borough Park, the suspect approached a 42-year-old woman, demanded she hand...