An 18,000 square foot Water Taxi Beach will open at the South Street Seaport as of Memorial Day weekend with sand, a 9-hole miniature golf course, ping-pong tables, skeeball and a fish shack serving fish and chips, steamers and clams, the Harbor Experience Companies announced tonight. Although the c...

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Oh, and speaking of punk being dead , check out the brand spankin' new "virtual tour" of late, lamented CBGB . As mawkishly gimmicky as it is, I have to say that it's fairly well done.  I've swiped this, by the way, from the excellent This Ain't the Summer of Love blo...

If you have’t listened yet, Urban Jacksonville Weekly Episode #6 is a good place to start. This is the best episode we’ve recorded to date in my opinion. An “Um” free episode! Episode #6 topics Mayoral race and possible candidates First Wednesday Art Walk project Springfield ...

As I pushed against the opposing tide down Broadway yesterday afternoon on my way home from work, I passed an individual who could have been my doppelganger. Despite graying at the temples and clearly expanding around the middle, this gent clearly harbored a fondness for the same age-old sartorial a...

  Even before our economy plunged into the toilet, I found myself buying fewer and fewer compact discs. Not to sound melodramatic, but I just can't afford to be blithely spending my money on music these days, especially given the limited amount of listening time my current lifestyle afford...

Midtown workers shouldn’t have all the fun, so to even the score, I’ve brought on Daniel Krieger as an official Downtown Lunch Correspondent to write up some of the tasty stuff you can get in the lower half of Manhattan. He’s a great photographer (ensuring good food porn), but more importantly...

Click the image above to view the full photogallery. [Photos via Flickr/raulistic] The end is nigh for 231 Duffield Street, one of several houses on this Downtown Brooklyn block linked to the Underground Railroad. Yesterday, Brownstoner alerted us that the dirty deed had begun following the recent a...

I have to admit, I'm a bit of a neophyte when it comes to baseball. I mean, I played a few seasons as a kid, cheered Chipper Jones on a couple of times here in Richmond, know how to throw a few stats around, but essentially baseball is about as important to me as Spiro Agnew. Which means I don&#...

So, my search for a tea ball continued today. I stopped by Montague's, certain they would have what I was looking for.  Alas, they did not.  But the gentlemen ahead of me in line recommended another store, that was 'somewhere downtown.  On Tejon.  Between Colorado and Boulder.'&n...