Guess the Mayor’s office isn’t a fan of the SVU spin-off. While we were told that they’re unsure when they started handing out this honor, “the City has issued proclamations to TV shows, movies and theatrical productions for many years.” And why not, if Yarn Bombing can be given a holiday, so can a show about rich, white, over-privileged Manhattanites. [ more › ]
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Happy Gossip Girl Day: What Other NYC Shows Have Been Given Their Own Days?
Reporters Without Borders has released their annual Press Freedom Index cataloguing the most and least-journalism friendly countries in the world, and the United States dropped 27 places, to #47. According to the report, the U.S. “owed its fall of 27 places to the many arrests of journalist [sic] covering Occupy Wall Street protests.” Wait, we didn’t see anything of that nature happening! [ more › ]
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After Media’s OWS Arrests, U.S. Plummets In Press Freedom Index
Brooklyn, there was a line that was drawn, and you have stepped over it by offering up a course in ARTISANAL PENCIL SHARPENING . Yeah, that is happening. David Rees—who seems like a perfectly nice person and is also a political cartoonist for Rolling Stone and The Nation—is bringing some Dixon Ticonderogas to Pete’s Candy Store along with his knowledge in whittling the wooden sticks. His website declares: [ more › ]
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Enough, Brooklyn: Guy Offering Artisanal Pencil Sharpening Class (YES REALLY)
Instead of Twitter-crying about your landlord forgetting to turn your one wheezing radiator on, you should be thanking him for getting you ready for swimsuit season. New studies have revealed the existence of brown fat in humans, which burns calories “like a furnace” when the body gets cold. Look for Brown Fat Smoothies soon at a McDonald’s near you. [ more › ]
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Science: Simply Being Cold Burns Fat
We’re not gonna lie, these girls have a lot of work to do, but Franny and Sofia are probably only like, what, 7? 8-years-old? So let’s cut ‘em some slack. Plus, what they don’t deliver in on-air smoothness, they deliver in adorableness. And they’re broadcasting straight out of Brooklyn, no less! Here they are giving us the weather, and reporting on that whole billboard incident on the BQE (with custom illustrations!): [ more › ]
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Cute Video Alert: Two Brooklyn Kids Deliver The News
A few weeks ago, we posted the menu for Talde , the new Asian fusion joint in Park Slope from former Top Cheffer Dale Talde and neighborhood favorites David Massoni and John Bush (of Thistle Hill Tavern). The restaurant is now officially up and running, turning out plates of Hawaiian pork buns, oyster-bacon pad Thai, Korean fried chicken and more, plus wine, beer and cocktails like Brooklyn Sling (gin, Luxardo, pineapple, house-made grenadine and bitters) and the Pacquiao Punch, a top-secret recipe that pays homage to Manny Pacquiao, the Filipino boxing champion, statesman and Talde’s personal hero. [ more › ]
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Take A Look At Talde, Park Slope’s New Pan-Asian Spot
A slightly morbid bit of real estate news from the folks over at Ditmas Park Blog : Whisk Bakery Cafe, the coffeeshop owned by slain Brooklyn resident Josh Rubin , is hosting a one-dayonly assets sale this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. to sell off the shuttered business’s equipment. [ more › ]
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Murdered Brooklyn Cafe Owner’s Cafe To Be Sold Off Part By Part
Beneath New York City lies a vast network of abandoned tunnels, caverns, nooks and crannies that the average joe will never see. But urban explorer Steve Duncan is not your average joe! As we’ve seen before , he and filmmaker Andrew Wonder really like getting dirty below grade. Their hunt to go where you shouldn’t continues—and now over the next few weeks, Gothamist and MyBlockNYC are happy to bring you glimpses of where they’ve been. First up? An unfinished and abandoned IND station off the G train in Brooklyn! [ more › ]
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Video: Undercity Explores An Abandoned Subway Station In Brooklyn
Maksim Gelman , the 24-year-old Brooklyn man who plead guilty to killing four people and injuring four others during a 28-hour stabbing rampage across Brooklyn and Manhattan last February, is due to be sentenced this week. He discussed the murderous rampage in a long jailhouse interview with the Daily News , and claimed he was responsible for six more murders before this year: “All my friends, they all tell me I’m crazy,” he said in a phone interview from Rikers Island. “I believe I’m schizophrenic and bi-polar…I know what’s going on but I tend to overreact.” [ more › ]
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Subway Stabber Maksim Gelman Claims To Have Killed 6 Others
A teenage girl from Rockaway, Queens has been charged with leaving the scene of an accident after she ran a red light last night and fatally struck a 49-year-old Chinese food delivery man in Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn. [ more › ]
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Teenager Charged After Chinese Delivery Hit And Run In Gerritsen Beach