East Village News

Restaurants in the meatpacking district and Chelsea will converge on Gansevoort Plaza, the cobblestone area at Gansevoort Street and Ninth Avenue, to serve tastes of their special dishes on Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. to benefit the NYC Lab School for Collaborative Studies.

Six years ago this traveling smorgasbord of a project , named for the Belgian spiegeltent in which it lives, parked itself on a pier near the South Street Seaport, where it soon became a summer fixture.

It took four years but finally I've found a Thai restaurant in New York that I could call my favorite and one I would recommend without hesitation.

If NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg gets his way, New York City's restaurants and food carts would be banned from selling soft drinks larger than 16 ounces.

It's a warm spring day in New York City, and Jesse Malin is calling from the Bowery.

VANISHED I am sad to report, the Atlas Barber School and shop closed forever this past Saturday after the landlord raised the rent to an impossible $11,000 per month .

Free & Cheap New York: Where to go and what to do around the city for the week of May 13, 2012 "Light or Dark" is the name of Geoffrey Bartholomew's latest version of "The McSorley Poems," and a choice between the pub's two ales.

The first major for us by us novel after Stonewall. The writing is amazing. The plot? Yes, only a few people living in Manhattan lived like that, and I wasn't one of them, but it was still fascinating.

WCBS 2's Kathryn Brown reports on a car in New York City's East Village that's turning the heads of otherwise jaded New Yorkers: an Audi A3 encased in six inches of ice.

Just after 10 p.m. on Tuesday, James Drysdale was about to enter Tompkins Square Park when he was surprised to find his passage barred by a metal gate chained shut at East Seventh Street and Avenue B. The other gates around the 10-acre park in the East Village were also chained shut, long before the park's normal midnight curfew.

One-hundred and seventeen years ago, on May 23, 1895, representatives of two small libraries agreed to create the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.

Sky Nicole Grey, left, and Sy Alassane in "Restless City", a 2011 film directed by Andrew Dosunmu and shot by cinematographer Bradford Young.

From 21st Street and Broadway to Tompkins Square Park in the East Village, a large mix of cultures danced in yesterday's NYC Dance Parade.

An underused alleyway in the East Village will get a makeover with help from a Downtown Long Beach Associates grant.

Leave the jazz hands at Broadway this summer, and head out to NY's outdoor music, film and fringe events instead.

Adam Yauch was, in almost every sense of the term, a true New Yorker - born in Brooklyn, raised on the music of the Village and the Lower East Side, representing the eclectic energy and vibrant multiculturalism of NYC itself through his films and social causes - so it's fitting that, earlier this week, the New York State Senate passed a resolution ... (more)

CBSNews.com's Nick Dietz reports. 93-year old Tao Porchon-Lynch was just named the world's oldest yoga teacher by Guinness World Records.

When Azuki first moved to the U.S., she was very surprised that many Americans thought Japanese people mostly ate sushi, ramen and shabu-shabu. She explained that in her culture, those foods were usually reserved for special occasions, which is why she felt compelled to expose New Yorkers to real, everyday Japanese food, the kind of food she grew ... (more)

U.S. chef Sara Jenkins, right, and Cuban chef Hector Higuera, center, wearing red shirt, team up to prepare dinner, in Havana, Cuba, earlier this month during a chef-exhange named 'Project Paladar.' The event, named after Cuba's popular independent restaurants, is part of Havana's 11th Biennial contemporary art event.

This morning I had a gritty, sweating, damp, dirty run down Bowery through Chinatown and back.