“The Office of Emergency Management, the New York City Fire Department, Department of Buildings, NYPD, Health Department, and Department of Agriculture” all apparently showed up to evict 200 tenants from a building called the “kibbutz” in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Why? “Dangerous grains,” and a matzoh bakery. It’s been labeled Matzo-Gate, and speculation is [...]

Posted January 27, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches. Tags: 475 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, dangerous grain, eviction, Matzo-Gate, nyc. Be the first one.

This thread says you can get booze and ice cream in the same joint! Places to know in NYC: Otto, The Chocolate Room (beer & wine only?), ChikaLicious, Clinton Street Baking Company, BLT Burger, Homer’s, and Liquor & Ice Cream.

Posted January 20, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink. Tags: booze, Dessert, drinks, ice cream, liquor, nyc. 3 Comments.

Virgilio Cintron was the happiest corpse in the city…

Posted January 10, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink. Tags: check cashing, corpse, dead, nyc, scheme, Virgilio Cintron. Be the first one.

I’ve been sitting on this story since October, hoping I’d be able to get to the show, but It’s increasingly clear that I’m not getting to NYC for a while. So, anyway…
MoMA is showing SAFE: Design Takes On Risk
Wired Magazine described it:
Just in time for the wave of catastrophes plaguing our fragile planet, some top [...]

Posted December 2, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Style, Fashion and Food, Technology. Tags: exhibit, exhibition, moma, museum, museum of modern art, new york, nyc, SAFE, safety, show. Be the first one.

I caught the following story on NPR’s All Things Considered (RealAudio stream) last night:
New York is known for its vibrant nightlife, yet in many bars and restaurants it’s illegal to dance. Now, a law professor is challenging the “Cabaret Laws,” claiming they violate a dancer’s right of free expression. The city says dancing by patrons [...]

Posted November 29, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Questionable...funny. Pointless., Style, Fashion and Food. Tags: blue laws, cabaret, cabaret license, dance, dancing, first ammendment, foolish natives, footloose, free expression, free speech, jazz clubs, law, legal challenge, license, lynne taylor-corbett, manhattan, new york, new york city, new york new york, newyork, ny ny, nyc, nyny, paul chevigny, rights, wild strangers. One Comment.

The Video Bulb is a “lipstick-sized tube” that plugs in to your TV’s RCA jack and plays Bitman videos.
GadgetMadness explains what Bitman is:
Bitman is the creation of Japanese Art Performer “Meiwa Denki” and was an 8-bit electronic stick figure who would dance, pose, etc.
The VideoBulb sounds interesting enough, but I think I could get into [...]

Posted August 26, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless., Technology. Tags: bitman, bitman video bulb, bitman videobulb, gadget, gadget shop, japan, new york, new york city, nyc, video bulb, videobulb, zakka, zakka shop, zakka shop & space. One Comment.

The New York Metro reports that the sex industry is expecting a 20 to 50 percent uptick in business while the Republicans are in town for the Republican National Convention this week. Mary, a stripper at Ten’s Cabaret speaks from experience. She worked the 2000 RNC in Philadelphia and expects the strip clubs in NYC [...]

Posted August 28, 2004 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: dom, domination, kink, kinky, new york, new york city, nyc, presidential election, republican, republican national convention, republicans, rnc, sex, sex workers. 9 Comments.