We all know that living in New York affords us the ability to travel without leaving the city, and few destination neighborhoods offer as much variety as Flushing, Queens. Even […]
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Posted inEat & Drink, Reviews
New Italian ‘Le Fanfare’ Serves up Dinner with a Side of Jazz
In a neighborhood largely under occupation by the Haslegrave brothers, we walked into new bar and restaurant Le Fanfare to the pleasant surprise that it wasn’t another one of theirs. […]
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Full Moon Horseshoe Ritual
I’ve just learned that the best event of the summer – if you like the full moon, citizen science, horseshoe crabs, and moonlight rituals, at least – is happening this […]
Posted inCommunity, Culture, Historical Greenpoint, News
Visiting Hours at the New York State Pavilion
This may have happened today in Flushing, Queens, but nevertheless Greenpointers is ON IT. Today, for a mere three hours, visitors were invited into the remnants of the New York […]
Posted inCommunity, News
WTF is Plank Road?
A black-crowned night heron. Several swallows, cormorants, and geese. One lone white duck. These were some of the birds seen on this Saturday’s canoe trip to Plank Road, which was […]
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Vongole & Negroni at The Elm
A few seats to my right at the bar, an expensively-dressed middle-aged woman spoke loudly on her smartphone while the stoic waitstaff artfully transferred white beans from a polished steel […]
Posted inArt, Culture
Future Mate: OKCupid Stories for the Drone Wars
When your children come in from a long day scavenging for food in the irradiated exurbs and ask for a story while the family is gathered around the meager rubbage […]
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Dear Bill: Responding to the 10/15 Mayoral Debate
Bill, I say this as someone who has supported your campaign since before you were thought of as a viable candidate: I have never been closer to voting for your […]
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Captured Tracks, Our New Downstairs Neighbor
Around six months ago I saw diamond plate going up on a renovated wall at 195 Calyer street, just east of Manhattan avenue. I wrote it off at the time […]
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Blood and Rubble: Williamsburg Fashion Weekend S/S 2014
Four months and twenty days before 11 designers debuted their latest collection on the stage at the venue Villain on North 3rd St for Williamsburg Fashion Weekend, garment workers in […]