Five different car crashes in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens have left five people dead yesterday. At Atlantic Avenue and Buffalo Street, a Honda Accord carrying four people hit a subway station pillar (pictured; via the Post) after midnight. Two of the passengers, a 25-year-old Naquana Kilpatrick and 17-year-old Gilberto Howard, died while the 19-year-old driver and another passenger were injured. Another car crash in Brooklyn claimed two lives: A car hit an unoccupied box truck......

If you can’t deal with a bun that is soaked through, don’t go to Brennan and Carr. If you think meat that is steamed until it turns grey is gross, don’t go to Brennan and Carr. But if you want a classic Brooklyn roast beef sandwich, this is your place. Brennan and Carr can be found in a part of New York that is probably not much like your neighborhood. For one thing, they......

Wooster Collective spotted this amazing exterior on 4th Street, between Avenue C and Avenue D. It was painted by Cern and Cekis from Chile. Check out more of their painting at ArtCrimes. Their style is similar to Os Gemeos from Brazil-- you might remember them from when they were in New York last year. Semi-related: NYU is having a show of Israeli graffiti and related art. The opening is at the Brofman Center tonight......

Wednesday night we walked past Cafe Esperanto, past churches and gardens on East Seventh to the corner of Avenue D, to the corner that serves as the kitchen and the presentation space for The Works, the non-profit catering and events-planning arm of Housing Works. We were greeted by their personable staff and lovely people of Mediabistro to celebrate the publication of Dianne Jacob's book, Will Write For Food. Jacob's book is a guide unlike......

From Revolution Studios, the studio producing Rent, the studio behind classics like Tomcats, the Master of Disguise, and and the upcoming Christmas with the Kranks whose previews make our teeth hurt, a letter to Gothamist about the movie version of Rent being filmed in San Francisco's manmade island:We saw your recent story on the Gothamist website about the film version of Rent, and we wanted to take the opportunity to clarify a few points that......