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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, while also referencing the 1928 standard made most famous by Nat King Cole, which Tomasko’s gran...

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 crying,” Montpeirous explained to NY1. “Two revolving doors, two side doors here, 22 steps t...

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 inspired the soulful screech of “Subway Train.” But the wiseass warmth and confetti-spraying exuberance...

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 required to keep at least two sides of the outdoor structure open. Per the state’s definition, thi...