After seeing Leland Bobbé's photo series, 'The Women Of Fifth Avenue,' photographer Elizabeth Bick contacted us about her own series: portraits of th...
"Just spent 20 hours in 2 Brooklyn jails for this," Kenny Scharf wrote on Facebook when posting the above image of one of his signature graffiti piece...
A longtime Roberta's waitress decided to make her last shift a memorable one this weekend, serving patrons in almost nothing but her birthday suit.
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Architect Terri Chiao knew she couldn't afford the rent on a 750-square-foot Brooklyn loft without a roommate, but she didn't want to divide it up with walls. Instead, she built a cabin and a treehouse inside the space to be used as private living quarters.
A Brooklyn man's revenge plot against a city garbage collector was foiled two years ago when he accidentally shot and killed his accomplice and friend...
Blindfolding the critic: TEDXChelsea's "The true value of art is rarely what someone will pay for it" catapulted new stars into the art world filame...
When asked if New York was the art capital in the 1960s the result was a unanimous "yes," so what changed? The most convincing reason was a positive one: simply, globalization happened, and the center shifted.
Giuseppe Viterale never starts or ends the day without a cup of espresso. He fires up a little gas burner, spoons in the ground coffee and puts the aluminum one-cup pot atop the steady blue flame. "This is like a religious ritual for me," he says.
An NYPD officer shot while chasing a suspect in Brooklyn is in critical condition Wednesday morning at Bellevue Hospital but doctors say he is expecte...
As jaded New Yorkers, we're more likely to put on a been there/done that attitude rather than risk looking like a newbie. Grand Central's secret whisp...
An attorney representing the family of Mathieu Lefevre, the Williamsburg artist who was killed in October by a flatbed truck driver, has sent a letter...
Who says New Yorkers are bad drivers? However aggressive and honk-happy we may be on the road, we're also probably the world's most talented (or fana...
This week at HuffPost Arts we indulged our reality TV guilty pleasures with the 'Work of Art' season premiere, fought the LA ban on murals with street...
Now that Facebook has decided to publish a timeline that includes all of our online goings-on since birth, we wonder what a tangible chronicle of t...
Bushwick's Microscope Gallery will bring an extraordinary real life performance piece opening this Saturday October 8, 2011. Bushwick-based artist Mar...
Achieving that balance between community improvement and neighborhood assassination is, to say the least, a difficult balancing act. Some say that it cannot be done.
In May, Democrats pulled off a major upset in New York's 26th Congressional District, winning a special election in a district Republicans had held fo...
"You can't stop change" is a truism applicable to any New York City neighborhood, especially those that are attractive to the young, hip and creative. Take, for example, Bushwick in Brooklyn.
Naming New York neighborhoods is a traditional free-for-all and it's no secret that real-estate brokers shamelessly rebrand areas to make them more at...