McNamee (via facebook) Hoo boy, the race for Night Mayor is heating up! After the City Council voted Thursday to establish an official Office of Nightlife, Bronx Native and former head of Webster Hall Gerard McNamee...

The defunct Williamsburg venue Death by Audio. (Tod Seelie / Gothamist) Assuming a city council vote goes as it’s expected, New Yorkers will soon be getting their own City Hall advocate for sensible nightlife policies. A...

While Randall's Island transforms into a corporate-funded festival site every summer, there is one exception this year: the DIY fest called Punk Island. Typically the event takes place on Staten Island, but relocated its 7 stages and...

(wragg/iStockphoto) Gothamist made its first appearance in the Supreme Court record late last month as part of a case assessing whether Washington, D.C. police officers were in the right to arrest people having a do-it-yourself strip-club...

Jeff Stark has been on the forefront of NYC's DIY nightlife and performance scene for many years now, having spearheaded some of the city's most creative underground projects and headed up the indispensable events newsletter Nonsense NYC....

New York skaters are spoiled for choice, but our in-house skatepark critic is separating the wheat from the chaff.

Who would want to kill off parties like this? (Photo by Seth Applebaum, via Shea Stadium) When the team behind Shea Stadium announced that they would have to temporarily close their doors in order to focus...

There's a lot to unpack at Genuine Liquorette, a new subterranean cocktail joint underneath Genuine Roadside, a burger spot on Grand Street in what remains of Little Italy. There's the "California, bodega-style liquor store" decor, as described...

(James Thilman / Gothamist) Have you already sold your kidney to buy an iced coffee in this humid hellhole? It's getting bleak out there. Before you consider investing in an at-home dialysis machine, consider that there...

An easy way to freak out New Yorkers is to be really friendly. The city trains us to be skeptical of altruism, for good reason. What's your angle? What are you selling? Walking into Death By Audio...

(Tod Seelie/Suckapants) Party space House of Yes has been out of commission since closing up its East Williamsburg warehouse last summer, but the spangled nipple tassels and acrobatics are soon to return. They've leased a space...

The broken toilets at 285 Kent flushed their last DIY detritus last night, as Brooklyn's Most Eulogized Venue hosted an impressive lineup for its final show. "I wasn't there because President Dunham had a new episode airing,"...

From the House of Yes's Christmas Spectacular. (Photo by Tod Seelie) Long gone is the era that anyone could just lease out a warehouse in non-residential East Williamsburg, build a stage, sell cheap beers, book some...

Concert promoter Todd Patrick (better known as Todd P) has come full circle since he arrived in New York in 2001. Long known for booking acts that eschew mainstream tastes in venues far removed from Manhattan's...

With lots of snow but no sled in his possession, local comedian and filmmaker Todd Bieber got creative this weekend and appropriated his fiancée's desk chair to build his own DIY sledding apparatus. Using a pair...

Interior of Silent Barn (prior to robbery) Good news to all fans of scuzzy indie rock—shuttered DIY space Silent Barn's coming back, and it is upgrading its scuzzy factor tenfold by moving to Bushwick! The venue,...

Outdoor wedding at Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden (via Facebook) On one hand, some brides fake leukemia to get donations for their dream weddings while other brides will resort to feeding tubes to lose weight. On...

A Madagascar Institute Dragon at the 2011 Maker Faire, from Andrea Schwalm's Flickr The last time professional tinkerer Christopher Hackett was featured in a NY Times story, it was when an confetti gun he invented exploded...

In August 1929 a Brooklyn man completed a massive DIY project: he built a plane in his apartment! According to Modern Mechanix, neighbors kept hearing loud noises from Peter Lepicer's digs, and for months he would...

We just stumbled upon this sweet vintage video on a trip down the Youtube rabbit hole, showing a Manhattan couple trying to make their tiny apartment into a livable space. People from the 1950s: they're just...

Interior of Silent Barn (prior to robbery) Silent Barn (located in Ridgewood, Queens on the border of Bushwick) needs your help, and not just to clean the bathroom. The venue has spent seven years accumulating equipment,...

Courtesy Joanna Ebenstein With her neat, pale blond coif and black-rimmed glasses, one might imagine Joanna Ebenstein to be a dedicated librarian or archivist. To some extent she is, but Ebenstein's real passion is of the...

Nicholas Lahines After allegedly selling eight DIY bombs for $3,200 in a Bronx parking lot, a Bridgeport, CT man was arrested by the feds Thursday. A subsequent search of his apartment revealed a fully-functional bomb factory,...

Babeland of Brooklyn is celebrating Earth Day the only way they know how: the kinky way. Tonight they're hosting a lesson filled with "eco-sexy tips" and invite their "crafty customers to make DIY floggers from recycled...

Currently Sol LeWitt's manipulated aerial shot of New York City, called "Part of Manhattan with Central Park, Rockefeller Center and Lincoln Center removed," is over in San Francisco... but that doesn't mean we can revisit it...

We're not giving up on summer, you guys! It's still August, it's still intermittently stinking hot, and there's still time left to do all those summery activities you ambitiously planned way back in May. These include killing...