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Last night, a three-alarm fire ripped through a building at Elizabeth Street near Spring in Nolita. The fire started in Acela Dejesu's sixth floor apartment. According to the Post, when she returned home from shopping, she opened the door and "was met with a wall of flame"; she told the paper, "I had no idea how it happened." The Daily News describes how the the building, a "walk-up home to a mix of old-world immigrants, yuppies and hipsters," was gutted, with windows exploding onto the street and over 100 firefighters responding to the scene. Fortunately, there were no serious injuries--a few firefighters and civilians were taken to hospitals for treatment.

Just last week, the Crosby Connection opened in its new location, continuing its tradition of serving delicious, reasonably priced sandwiches. If you were fortunate to get to Crosby early enough last week, owner Joey Cramarossa was giving away samples of a pizza that he planned on selling from his new location. When we previously talked to Cramarossa, he said that there was nothing like this pizza in the area, something that is painfully obvious to us everyday.

On Crosby Street between Bleecker and Houston, there's a literally hole-in-the-wall sandwich shop called The Crosby Connection. Joey Cramarossa, an ex-cop from New Jersey, works out a tiny space to serve up unbelievably fresh, delicious, filling and reasonably priced sandwiches and salads at $5-6 each.

Learn about Friuli-Venezia Giulia through a study of wine and food. Friuli's whites will keep you cool during the summer, but the red varietals hold their own as well. 1:00 - 3:00 pm, $75.00. Register online or by calling 212-473-2323 x106. Italian Wine Merchants - Studio del Gusto, 108 East 16th Street between Park Avenue South & Irving Place.

May 12: Brooklyn Pigfest

It’s hard to keep a secret in this town. Maybe with so many people, so close together privacy seems a foreign concept. But as we learned on the playground back in third grade, “secrets, secrets are no fun, unless they are for everyone.” God, we were so smart back then. That being said, you probably know all about the Monday Room.

“We’re going to force him to eat some blood sausage. That’s what friends are for, right?” Behind the line, a cook nods, and Chef Brad Farmerie of Public restaurant gets back to the business of garnishing entrees. He stacks a few slices of house-made boudin noir on a small bread-and-butter plate, sending it out to a former sous chef who happens to be visiting from England. Farmerie, who turned 34 last week, presides over the eclectic kitchen of Public Restaurant on Elizabeth Street, which at times resembles a cabinet of curious chutneys: the chef is known for pairing proteins with unusual spices and condiments, like wattle seed and aleppo pepper. Far from creating slapdash fusion cusine, though, Farmerie experiments with each of his ingredients until his finds a flavor profile that works. He frets over the quality of his galangal; worries about the subtlety of vanilla in his foie gras ballotine. He is also the rare chef who always keeps some braised pork belly on hand for an impromptu amuse bouche, but also strives to make his vegetarian plates vegan, and more importantly, to make sure that they taste good.

Yesterday afternoon, a crowd of people excitedly waited on a line along Elizabeth Street. No, they had not missed the San Gennaro Festival - they were there for fashion. Emmett McCarthy, a season 2 designer from Project Runway, was having an event at his store, EMc2, featuring clothing and appearances from Project Runway designers like Chloe Dao, Kara Janx, Alison Kelly, Nick Verreos, and Emmett himself....plus Tim Gunn!

This past weekend marked the opening of the new Tasting Room in the old M&R Bar space on Elizabeth just south of Houston. The bar is open for business to all comers, but it was mostly friends & family, and the food will be at least 10 days behind the booze. Speaking of old spaces, with this opening, the previous Tasting Room space on First Street is now closed until late summer when it will re-emerge as an all day spot open for coffee, baked goods, wine, and small plates.

writer Jeff Whitty among them at one point) an old favorite bar and dining room is now reborn. When Michael Howett and Richard Bach first opened the place on Elizabeth Street, it was the first bar and dining room there and those who knew it remember the nude paintings, eccentricities, ancient wine bottles and tchotchkes well. So well that customers asked after them for years -- til now, when all the nude paintings you could be missing are rightfully rehung, this time in the basement. The dining angle is mostly tapas and some main courses, from all over, well complimented by wine and a bar that focuses heavily on the whiskey. As much as thouse nudes may remind you of figure study classes, the whiskey will bring you back even quicker. For those missing The Slide, the gay, gay, gay space M & R took over, we'd recommend the awesome Mr. Black's, just a few blocks away (Tricia Romano looks at the bar's main attraction to NSFW results).

If New York wasn't the center of the universe already, we'd say the title would go to MySpace. The phenomenon has even inspired a song.

March 27: Cheese & Wine 101

Oh, this is a sad day: our favorite Japanese pillow store (okay, so it's the only Japanese pillow store we've ever been to) is closing! Mogu has occupied a large storefront on Elizabeth Street south of Houston for more than a year-- we've often wondered how many powder-bead filled pillows they'd have to sell each month to cover than rent. The answer, we suppose, is a lot more than they actually did sell. Their loss is your gain, however, because at 85% off, you could get pillows starting at about $3. If you're too lazy to trek out to NoLIta in a snowstorm, you can pay their normal prices at the Mogu online store, or at Amazon. Seriously-- these really are nice pillows!

You may know Vincent Gallo best from his amazing movie Buffalo66, or his excretable movie Brown Bunny, or from his 1980s career as a musician and famous painter, or from leaning against that wall opposite Cafe Havana on Elizabeth Street, staring moodily into space. Now, courtesy of his website, you can take some of that magic and put it where you've always wanted it: in your womb! Funny parts in bold:

Yesterday, a bicyclist was killed at East Houston and Elizabeth Street. Andrew Morgan, the manager at Blue Ribbon Bakery on Bedford and Downing, was knocked down by a truck, and screamed for a delivery truck to stop. But the truck continued to make a right turn onto Elizabeth, pinning Morgan. A forklift and inflatable bags where used to retrieve Morgan, who was later pronounced dead at St. Vincent's. The police did not charge the driver, only issuing a summons for driving with an expired inspection sticker, because it "looked like an accident." A friend said about Morgan, who moved here from Austin a year and a half ago, "He loved it here. He loved the people. He thought the more time he spent here, New York became smaller."

A recent Mexican-food-filled trip to Texas left Gothamist craving delicious chips and guacamole upon our return to New York. When we heard about the homemade guacamole at Café El Portal on Elizabeth Street, we couldn’t refrain from making a visit to taste it ourselves.

Yes, yes, we know. Everyone else wrote about it already. But Gothamist was at the opening night party at Plate NYC too, so we wanted to throw in our two cents, and let you know that it's open for business. Unfortunately, we only had time for a quick stop-by, but the tease we got was enough to make us want to come back for a real visit very soon.

Photographs of Nolita at night are up at Bluejake, with a little bit of neighborhood history as well (days 1, 2, 3; gallery). One link Gothamist liked in particular is Martin Scorsese's interview about living on Elizabeth Street.

The Times looks at the phenomenon of Pearl River, the Chinese-and-Asian goods outpost downtown. Reporter Denny Lee outlines the store's history, pointing out that owners Ming Yi Chen and Ching Yeh Chen, who have doctrates in chemistry, decided to "bridge the divide between Chinatown and China" by opening Pearl River 25 years ago, as mainland Chinese products were few and far between during the trade ban. They would pick up Chinese products from Canada to bring back to their Elizabeth Street store. Now, in their new 10,000 square foot SoHo store, Mr. Chen says, "It took us 25 years to move our store from Chinatown to SoHo. It was just a short move. But it was a long, long journey." Gothamist is happy for Pearl River's existence, as it's brought us many fun things, like this panda bobblehead figurine that is...Japanese. Hmm.

Needing a place to hide out for refuge from street harassment, Gothamist ducked into a cute, inviting boutique on Prince Street. Looking around, we realized we had just read about the store in Daily Candy. Esujin has very simple, clean pieces with subtle unique touches, like contrasted white piping on a blue pinstriped skirt, that are all very wearable for work and play. Daily Candy said it would be clothes you and your mother could agree on, which is true, but that does not mean it's boring. We especially loved the fun purses and silky dresses.