Before the Italian-American exodus from Bensonhurst, only Italian food vendors participated in the annual 10-day Feast of Santa Rosalia–Brooklyn’s version of Little Italy’s San Gennaro Festival–in honor of the patron saint of Palermo, Sicily. But lately "The Feast," as it is dubbed by locals, has become less a nod to what was once Bensonhurst’s most Read More
State and city comptrollers say no to the MTA’s plan to put a platform over its West Side rail yards, but suggest they might put the development project out to bid. That of course was what the MTA more-or-less
did this winter, but presumably, without the Jets stadium looming, new and deep-pocketed developers Read More
On a balmy summer afternoon in 1991, Shelly Friedman was strolling the boardwalk in Brighton Beach with New York Times reporter Joyce Purnick when they came upon three elderly women.
Mr. Friedman, an attorney, was in the midst of a contentious battle with local residents who were dead set against demolishing the historic Brighton Beach Read More
“Svoboda is not your typical East Village haunt,” reads the press release. “In fact, its name ( svoboda means freedom in Russian) says it all. It means a freedom to be something different from what people have come to expect in East Village eateries.”
I’m not quite sure what I have come to expect in Read More
