Pinch & S’MAC: Dejected fans of Pinch, the defunct Park Avenue South “pizza by the inch” joint, will not only be reunited with their favorite Pinch pizza, but they can even slather it with the incredible mac-n-cheese from East Village favorite S’MAC. The new cheese and carb cartel will bring the best of both menus together on the Upper West Side, forming a single, unified, belt-busting celebration of starch. If you’ve never tried S’MAC, you’re......

When They Might Be Giants released their twelfth album, The Else, over the summer, The Village Voice called it “as tuneful and rockin' as all the rest, from the withering ‘I'm Impressed’ to the female-empowerment anthem ‘Take Out the Trash.’” Keeping it fresh is no small feat for a band with such an impressive body of work, accumulated over the course of the past 25-plus years. But a listen to The Else or, even better,......

Haru: The Japanese mini-chain’s takeover of New York is proceeding according to plan with the opening of their latest location in the financial district. The elegant, bi-level space (pictured) is located in the landmark 1903 Beaver Building, which calls to mind a mini-Flatiron Building. This location features two floors of dining to accommodate 160 guests, a 17 seat sushi bar, a second “alcohol” bar and two private party rooms. Like the other Harus, the extensive......

Debbie Harry's internationally known as the smart, cool and sexy front woman for pop/punk sensation Blondie, but when it comes to her solo career she prefers to be thought of as Deborah. The slight but significant name change might imply a conservative shift in tone, but her latest album - the first in fourteen years - finds her as vibrant and upbeat as ever. (Website, myspace) There's something inspiring about seeing Harry, whose storied career......

Market Table -- Mike Price, formerly of the Mermaid Inn has partnered with the Little Owl's Joey Campanaro and Gabriel Stulman, moved into the former Shopsins space and created a market/restaurant where, among other things, they'll be selling the kick-ass pork chops served at the Little Owl so you can attempt to re-create them at home. The market portion is in the soft-opening stage, and the restaurant is due to open the week of September......

A report tracking the rates of property foreclosures in New York state showed the the city was not impervious to the wave of distressed homeowners that is sweeping the rest of the country. Staten Island was the only borough that displayed a decrease in the rate of its foreclosures (6%). Leading the boroughs with foreclosure increases was Queens (126%), followed by the Bronx (56%), Brooklyn (51%), and Manhattan (12%). We published this map of city......

Suckers may be saying they can take out Adam Horovitz, but after all these years with The Beastie Boys – it’s now two decades since License To Ill dropped! – he’s still rocking steady. Having just released The Mix-Up, a new all-instrumental album, the three are set to drive the lane like Evan Bernhard with a trio of NYC shows in as many days. Tomorrow night and Thursday they’ll do two of their more familiar......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a church shooting on Schenectady Ave. in Brooklyn, a pedestrian struck on West 17th St. and Union Square West in Manhattan, and a water rescue in Raitian Bay between Staten Island and Sandy Hook, NJ. City Councilman Charles Barron's chief of staff, Viola Plummer, was suspended for six weeks from the City Council and by Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who she's also heckled, with a promise of reinstatment if......

The police continued to look for the robbers who shot a Queens bodega owner in the face on Monday night. Bolivar Cruz, a Dominican immigrant, is still on life support; the Post reports that two of his seven daughters were working in store at the time and that Cruz tried to protect them. According to Police Commissioner Kelly, Cruz did take out a gun (unlicensed) but did not get a chance to fire it. It's......

Over the past quarter-century They Might Be Giants have become such a consistent presence in the indie rock solar system that it’s quite possible to take them for granted. Because they were there at the ignition of "alternative" rock and never took their feet off the gas, one assumes they'll keep rocking all the way to the end, with "Don't Let's Start" providing the dance music for cockroaches' post-apocalyptic revelries. But despite their expansive musical......

Some fun website fun related to 47 East 3rd Street. The owners, Alistair and Catherine Economakis, have wanted to convert the 60-room, 11,575 square foot East Village tenement into a single-family residence since 2005, but there have been obstacles called tenants. And not just any tenants - these are rent-stabilized tenants (the 15 units rent for $600-1200/month) - and soon the two sides were embroiled in a 2+ year court dispute. To catch you......

Telling us what most any subway rider suspected, City Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. issued a review of the MTA's "State of Good Repair" capital expenditures and found that the MTA isn't very committed to making sure subway and bus service is in a "State of Good Repair." For instance, the MTA is 10-15 years behind making NYC Transit assets reach a State of Good Repair: 40% of lettered lines have 70 year old......

Last weekend, a Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood was shocked when a cashier at the Chinese take out restaurant Happy House was shot in the face while another worker who shot in the hand. Neighbors were devastated, telling ABC 7, "That's wrong, [the restaurant] didn't bother anybody. They tried to help people out. I don't know why people would do that to them." Today, the NY Times has a closer look Happy House's relationship with the neighborhood.......

A man who raped two women was arrested and will arraigned today by the Queens DA's office. Eric McCoy had posed as a cop and threatened the women by saying he would arrest them in order to intimidate them. From the DA Richard Brown's press release:District Attorney Brown said that, according to the criminal charges, at pproximately 5:00 p.m. on December 4, 2006, the defendant approached a 27-year-old woman as she exited a bus in......

It is getting impossible to root for the Knicks anymore. The franchise is completely lost, stuck over the salary cap for the rest of the decade and playing uninspired basketball. Now we learn that the head coach is running the team like a mob boss, ordering his players to take out opponents. These are the facts we know at this point. George Karl and Isiah Thomas do not get along at all. Karl is a......

Even though Central Park's famous gay penguin couple Silo and Roy broke up (Silo, the Anne Heche of the penguin world, took to a lady penguin named Scrappy), they were immortalized in the adorable children's book, And Tango Makes Three. And Tango Makes Three recounts how Silo and Roy were given a fertilized egg to hatch, after they unsuccessfully tried to hatch a rock - and baby girl Tango was born. But the book......

The Brooklyn DA's office has expanded its indictment of the men involved in an illegal tissue harvesting scheme. While the criminal counts stay, the new indictment says the men took bodies, cut them up and harvested organs, bones, and more from funeral homes in Manhattan, the Bronx, and upstate (the original charge was just in Brooklyn). Selling tissue or body parts is illegal, unless there is consent from the donor or next of kin, but......

-- Late breaking news: Rudy Fleming was convicted of murder in the Nicole DuFresne case-- we'll followup tomorrow. -- If you don't work in the financial service industry, you may have missed out on the Aleksey Vayner meme, in which a kid at Yale sent a hilariously insane application video for a job at an i-bank. All hell broke lose shortly after the video was leaked to the internet. This short video, set to......

I first came across Danielson when I was reading the Wikipedia article about outsider music. What intrigued me even more was that he was from New Jersey and went to Rutgers. I'm from New Jersey and know people going to Rutgers. Daniel Smith is opening for the Flaming Lips and I will be seeing the Flaming Lips. Then I realized something: you never see me and Daniel Smith in the same room at the same......

There are lots of things to love about New York City. Being able to order take out food from just about any ethnicity you can imagine, lazy summer picnics in Central Park or playing Frogger on 3rd Avenue after a pint or two are just a few that come to mind. But perhaps our favorite attribute of city life is being able to construct the perfect six-pack at your local bodega. Beer selection at......

Not to be “Debbie Downer” but the summer is almost halfway over. It’s not that we are looking at this in terms of the glass being half empty, but rather as a motivation to take advantage of some of the fun seasonal activities that like us, you might be saying, “I’ll get around to shortly.” We love summer in the city. Once you get past some of the offensive smells, the city seems to buzz......

- This week's New York has a story, not yet online, on the shocking and tragic execution-style murder of Tiesha Sargeant in which her drug dealing boyfriend admits to having sold $6,000 worth of weed the day of the murder. - What happens when the Department of Buildings decides the Bed-Stuy building you just bought a condo in is illegally built? "No bank will give a loan on this, you can't refinance or take......

Probably realizing that many of its riders are listening to their iPods and not conductor announcements, the MTA has its own podcasts - TransitTrax:We keep New York and you moving, and we're excited to offer you a variety of Podcasts that include service change information, getaways and deals, and behind the scenes interviews - all to help you get the most out of your ride or just to get to know us better. We'll be......

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Korean sushi? You may turn up your nose at the notion. It must just be another instance of bad New York fusion, you might say, like the Chinese restaurants that have sushi bars tucked away in the back. But, as Gothamist found out recently, Korean sushi has an authenticity all its own. Some even say that Korean sushi, most often called kim bap, was a precursor of the Japanese variety. The real truth may be......

The MTA forced transit beat reporters to a very special New Year's Day press conference to explain that, yes, their settlement with the transit workers union was good. With reports of a pension refund to union members that would total somewhere around $100 million (give for take tens of millions here and there - the reports totally conflict on that point) and an "extremely upset" Governor Pataki (props to the NY Post for supplying this......

The last minute shoppers are out of the way, so check out the holiday windows from 34th Street (Macy's) to 61st Street (Barney's). We believe they'll be up until at least the first week of January (though there is no way of telling when stores actually take out the displays.) A walking tour map is provided if you should need one. Too lazy to walk? Check out some of this years window art here. These......

Here at Gothamist, we're fans of Charlie Suisman's Manhattan User's Guide, but today we saw something for the first time: A marriage proposal via MUG's advertising. It looks like Tony Tsai loves Stephanie Huang. Our only question is how will we know if she says yes? Is Stephanie going to take out an ad on MUG to respond?? Don't leave us hanging Stephanie!STEPHANIE HUANG: From first time I met you, I knew that there was......

There is so much pomp and circumstance surrounding wine - that it's almost comical. It must be served in this wine glass at that temperature - and don't even think about drinking that with fish. But how much of this horse and pony show actually improves the experience of drinking wine? Is there method behind the madness or is everybody just drinking…ummm…the Koolaid? Turns out the answer is yes and yes. The temperature at which......

After Gothamist learned that Heather Carlucci-Rodriguez, the former pastry chef at L'Impero, was opening up a hole-in-the-wall North Indian take-out joint named Lassi, Gothamist decided to head over late last night to see how successfully a sultan of sweet could transition to over to savory. Inspired by the Punjabi cuisine of Purva Sudan, one of Carlucci-Rodriguez's students at the Institute of Culinary Education, the West Village storefront offers quick Indian food to take out, in......