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Updated 2:03 PM It’s Hanukkah year-round at the Killingsworth Station food cart pod—or, at least, a reasonable facsimile of the Lower East Side of New York. In any case, the pod is where Aaron Tomasko and Rachel Brashear of Sweet Lorraine’s Latkes & More are serving voluptuous potato pancakes, as well as knishes, kugel, kasha varnishkes and East Coast sweets. In other words, Jewish grandma cuisine. That’s literally what it is: The cart is named after Tomasko’s maternal grandmother...

By Michael Herzenberg New York City PUBLISHED 10:00 PM ET Mar. 11, 2021 PUBLISHED 10:00 PM EST Mar. 11, 2021 SHARE Bernard Montpeirous misses his job of 23 years. The pandemic forced the Roosevelt Hotel to close, four years shy of its centennial. He was a doorman there. “It just does something to you, a little bit emotional. I feel like cr...

At least 54 bars and restaurants closed in East Village since March 2020  West Village was second hardest hit neighborhood in the city with 21 closures Additional 19 eateries closed on the Lower East Side, followed by 15 each in Williamsburg and Staten Island, 14 on the Upper West Side  Indoor dining in New York resumed at 25 per cent capacity in February, but there is still 11pm curfew in place East Village establishments long relied on its 20-something patrons to buy alcohol and food  

For a rock and roll-obsessed teenager in the early-to-mid-1980s, picking up the first two New York Dolls albums was like stumbling across a pair of travel brochures from an enchanting destination that no longer existed. Whenever I visited my dad in New York City I could still traverse the same filthy lower Manhattan sidewalks that had birthed such Dolls classics as “Trash” and “Looking for a Kiss,” and I could still hitch a ride on the IRT or the BMT or whatever line it was that inspire...

Kevin Queiroz for New Kingston Media Outdoor dining guidelines still unclear for restaurant owners New York State issued updated guidelines for outdoor dining earlier this month, but restaurant owners are continuing to call out the state to clarify the confusing rules, Gothamist reports. The city’s guidelines previously stated that restaurants had to keep 50 percent of their outdoor space open to meet the requirements. Yet, the most recent update from the state outlines that restaurants were ...

Bird Song of the Day The sound on this a bit low, but it really reminds me of the prairie. #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. Resuming the upward climb, though at a lesser slope. Looks like the Midwest did it, from the regional data, with now a little help from the Northeast. I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching, because I don’t think the peak is coming in the next days, or eve...

Gem Spa Is Auctioning Off Its Iconic Sign, Awning, Egg Cream Fountains & More arrow Back in May, East Village landmark Gem Spa announced that they were closing for good after almost a century at the corner of St. Marks Place and Second Avenue. The store had struggled in recent years with losing their license to sell cigarettes and lottery tickets, and rent increases—and the pandemic turned out to be the final straw. Gem Spa is now auctioning off some of the most iconic objects from ...

Photo by: Lindsey Nicholson/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images NYC fast food workers set to secure new protections A pair of City Council bills set to pass later today will protect the city’s fast food workers from being fired without cause and require chain restaurants to take employment seniority into account before firing someone due to economic reasons, the New York Daily Newsreports. Council members Brad Lander and Adrienne Adams introduced the bills, respectively...