Brian Niemietz
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Home & away
IF AT HOME YOU GO HERE ... * NoHo Arty and chic, a more interesting SoHo. Cool hotel: Bowery Hotel (335 Bowery), for a jumping scene and cocktails. Boarding: Long...
Shell shock
They’re coming by boat, bus and train to Brooklyn Crab. It’s no wonder they don’t mind the wait. Since opening two weeks ago, this tri level seafood eatery in Red...
Summer 24 - 7!
What’s the difference between going to the right club on the wrong night and going to the wrong club on the right night? That’s a trick question: New Yorkers know...
Drink like a fish
Fifty miles south of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, the seaside town of Asbury Park, NJ, also brags about its ’70s rock ’n’ roll heyday — only its denizens are more...
My DJ New York: DJ Cassidy
Any DJ can get a boozy Manhattan crowd dancing on a Saturday night, but few have done so for the likes of Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Oprah Winfrey and President Barack Obama....
Call me al fresco
Getting drunk in a dark, dirty bar while the sun is shining outside? That’s called alcoholism. Imbibing at a brand-new, squeaky clean, outdoor drinkery? That’s called cool. Load up on...
Pop-up party planner
Outside a dark stretch of Chrystie Street, in between a Chinese laundromat and a grocery, stands a quartet of bachelorettes wearing penis-shaped balloon headdresses. They watch incredulously as other ladies...
Meet the record players
On a weekday afternoon at Brooklyn’s Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream (81 Bergen St., Boerum Hill; 347-763-2979), customers read, sip coffee or enjoy ice cream. But manager Emily Norton, 24,...
Record Store Day roundup
There are more cool limited-edition records out for today’s fifth annual Record Store Day than you can shake an iPod at. Jimmy Fallon’s Bowie-Tim Tebow mash-up, “Tebowie,” for one. Here’s...
Karaoke gone wild!
It's 10 p.m. on Tax Day and Tiffany Rodriguez, who works at a Manhattan accounting firm, is blowing off steam on a lighted stage in Midtown. Wearing conservative glasses and...
How I learned to love the Yankees
Had I told my family in Chicago that I became a pole dancer since moving to New York City in 1999, they might have been supportive. But when I told...
Black gold
On a recent Friday afternoon, two 44-year-old salt-of-the-earth men found themselves in Midtown’s Foley’s Pub with a thirst to quench. Their beer of choice: Guinness. “I don’t know if I’d...
Concrete jungle
One night in 1998, Chuck Zito — former president of the New York chapter of the Hells Angels — ventured out to the Scores gentlemen’s club. Once there, he decided...
Bottle rockers
It’s a rainy Monday night outside the quaint Murray Hill wine bar Terroir. A modest after work crowd has started trickling in to sip Riesling and grab a quick bite...
"I'm 8 years old!"
Manhattan-based musician Jeannie Myers has fond memories of singing with pop legend Neil Sedaka. Back in 1969, she spent time baby-sitting his kids while working at Esther Manor in the...
Birthday backlash
The birthday boy threw himself a party for the ages: 30 of his friends gathered on a rooftop space with an unobstructed view of the Empire State Building. He also...
They’ll occupy Calvin’s pants
99 PERCENT CALVIN In what was either a very weak publicity stunt or the lamest protest in history, a trio of red-eyeliner-wearing Occupy Wall Street protesters picketed angrily outside Calvin...
Minka’s Oscar-worthy in a de la Renta dress
HOUSE GUEST “Shameless” actress Emmy Rossum says it can be awkward when fans identify with her dysfunctional TV family. “People will walk up to me and say, ‘Frank Gallagher [the...
Betsey’s bottom gets top billing from Russell
IN A PINCH Betsey Johnson got a warm congratulations from Russell Simmons after finishing her Monday night show with her signature cartwheel. “Russell pinched my bottom at least five times,”...
Icy catwalk’s a cakewalk for NYC’s Fashion Flock
HURLEY BURLEY Nary a Fashion Week goes by without a runway model taking a spill, so when Moncler Grenoble held its Sunday night show on Central Park’s Wollman Rink, it...