Kick to the Spine: Shakespeare & Co. Being Replaced By a Foot Locker?
(Photo: Kirsten O’Regan) Shakespeare & Co., the beloved independent bookstore on Broadway, could close as early as tomorrow. And it might be making way for a Foot Locker, Bedford + Bowery has...
View ArticleThese Places Have Closed, But 'Frozen Fantasies' Are On the Way
Folks, a few closings to note. First off, a B+B reader who tried to go to the East Village location of DBA the other night found it shuttered. A Facebook message assures that, unlike the recent closing...
View ArticleYonah Schimmel Swats Rumors: ‘We’re Going to Be Here For Another Hundred Years’
(Photo: Angelica Frey) Have rumors of Yonah Schimmel’s demise been greatly exaggerated? On Monday, Bowery Boogie, citing anonymous “sources,” claimed that “word on the street is that the landlord is...
View ArticleMellow Pages Is Closing the Book on its Bushwick Library
(Photo: Mellow Pages Library Facebook) On Tuesday, Matt Nelson and Jacob Perkins, founders of Bushwick independent library and reading room Mellow Pages, announced on Facebook that their literary...
View ArticleTrash Bar’s ‘Epic and Chaotic’ Last Night Will Be June 27
(Gavin Thomas for NY Mag) Just a couple months after Trash Bar (albeit a fictitious version of it) was called a “New York landmark” on network television, the Williamsburg dive has finally announced...
View ArticleWe’re Still Waiting For the ‘Last Special Nights’ of Lit Lounge
Outside Lit (Photo: Daniel Maurer) We waited with bated breath last week for what we expected to be an epic reopening of Lit Lounge. Last month the bar, which is nearing its end of days in the East...
View ArticleCameo Gallery’s Owner Explains What Went Wrong
Cameo last spring (Photo via Facebook) I first met Jify Shah back in 2014 when things were looking up for the owner of Cameo Gallery, a venue that became a mainstay in the Williamsburg music scene...
View Article‘The Good Old Days Are Gone': Gallery Vercon Leaves the EV After 29 Years
(Photo: Kavitha Surana) After 29 years firmly planted on East Village’s fashion row, Gallery Vercon boutique is closing its doors on January 15. In the meantime all the goods are marked down, 20 to 50...
View ArticleThe Sock Man Is Closing, and Patricia Field Is Having a Liquidation Sale
(Photo by Kavitha Surana) The story of Mamoun’s had a happy ending, but not so for another St. Marks Place institution. Marty “The Sock Man” Rosen is shuttering his doors this Friday, January 15....
View ArticleSt. Mark’s Bookshop Receives ‘Execution Notice,’ Down to Final Hours
Thin shelves spell bad news for St. Mark’s Bookshop (Photo via St. Mark’s Bookshop) A lawyer for the struggling St. Mark’s Bookshop tells us “they’re probably not going to be around much longer, we’re...
View ArticleHuitzilli Packs Up Its Guayaberas After Some ‘Not So Great’ Changes in...
(Photo: Daniel Maurer)Huitzilli, a colorful boutique specializing in Mexican clothing and jewelry, is vacating its home of seven years after its building was sold. Emily Cantrell, the shop’s owner,...
View ArticleSt. Mark’s Bookshop Will Close For Good This Sunday
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) The St. Mark’s Bookshop has made it official: after nearly 40 years in business, the beloved East Village bookstore will close for good at the end of the week. Earlier this...
View ArticleCheap, Quirky Sanford & Sven Quits W’burg; This Weasel Diorama Is Half Off
(Photo by Sven Wechsler) It’s the end of the road for Sanford & Sven’s Second Hand. After seven years of feeding the experiments of artists, indie music video directors, restaurant owners and other...
View ArticlePour Out a Pint For Dempsey’s Pub, Leaving the East Village After 24 Years
(Photo: Courtesy of Dempsey’s Pub) Irish eyes ain’t smiling. First Puck Fair, and now this. The next three days are your last chance to grab a pint at East Village fixture Dempsey’s Pub, before its...
View Article‘Say It Ain’t So’: New Yorkers React to Other Music’s Closing
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) By now you’re probably past the denial stage of grief and it has started to sink in that Other Music is closing at the end of June. New Yorkers began posting teary-eyed tributes...
View ArticleThere Was Bubbly and Braiding as Northeast Kingdom Ended Its 10-Year Run
Staff and friends of Bushwick’s Northeast Kingdom during their closing party, May 29 at 1am. Co-owner Paris Smeraldo is dead center behind the bar in the blue button-down shirt and his partner Meg is...
View ArticleBarbone Evicted After 10 Years, and the East Village Loses a Hidden Garden
(Photo: Gavin Thomas for NY Mag) The East Village has lost one of its enchanting al fresco dining spots, as Barbone has been evicted after a decade on Avenue B. The Italian restaurant was opened in...
View ArticleSecret Project Robot Is Closing But ‘Not Giving Up,’ Co-Founder Says
Happyfun Hideaway (Photo: Lauren Carol Smith) The secret is out: beloved Bushwick art/party space Secret Project Robot, which has featured tons of art and hosted dozens of good shows and parties, will...
View ArticleLakeside Lounge Owner Releases a Musical Homage to His Old Dive
Eric “Roscoe” Ambel (Photo: Courtesy of Johan Vipper)When the Lakeside Lounge closed in April 2012, East Villagers mourned the loss of another quintessential dive bar in the rapidly changing...
View ArticleThe Acheron is Drying Up, Returning to the Darkness Whence It Came
Negative Approach at the Acheron (Via Acheron Instagram) Before the Acheron opened on a quiet block in heavily-industrial East Williamsburg back in 2010, the building was little more than a “black box”...
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