Eats & Drinks

Written by None - Do not Delete on October 4, 2006. Posted in Best of Manhattan, Posts

★ BEST TRANSFORMATION OF A FIGHT-PRONE DIVE BAR INTO A MEATPACKING DISTRICT SUCKPIT Village Idiot Becomes Gin Lane 355 W. 14th St. (betw. 8th & 9th Aves.) 212-691-0555 The stench hit you like a baseball bat. It was a retch-inducing cocktail of stale urine, puke, sweat, liquor, old smoke and testosterone. That was the perfume of
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Readers Poll Results

Written by None - Do not Delete on October 4, 2006. Posted in Best of Manhattan, Posts

Best Summer Festival Central Park Summer Stage (U.E.S.) Best Public Bathroom Barnes & Nobles Best Place to See Fashionistas Meatpacking District Best Weekly Club Night Black Cat Tuesdays at Otto’s Shrunken Head (East Side) Best DJ DJ Meat Mistress Best Place For Radical Politics ABC No Rio – www.abcnorio.org Best Republican Hang-Out Rodeo Bar (East
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Best place to buy a decent bottle of wine for …

Written by None - Do not Delete on October 5, 2005. Posted in Best of Manhattan, Posts

uy a decent bottle of wine for under $10 Warehouse Wine & Spirits 735 Broadway (betw. Astor Pl. & E. 8th St.) 212-982-7770 We all know that wine is the blood of Christ, and Christ, like Marx, was for the people. It follows that his blood should be affordable. And so Warehouse Wine & Spirits
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Best Pulp Novel Publisher: Hard Case Crime

Written by Staff on October 5, 2005. Posted in Best of Manhattan, Posts

Hard Case Crime It’s the Real Hot Diggity. Over the past 20-odd years a lot of people have tried to recapture the glory days of the old pulps. Some tried writing contemporary stories with hardboiled attitude and prose. Other repackaged classics by the likes of Jim Thompson, James M. Cain and Charles Willeford. But
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Best local poker player Matt Matros Matt Matros does himself no favors …

Written by None - Do not Delete on October 5, 2005. Posted in Best of Manhattan, Posts

r player Matt Matros Matt Matros does himself no favors at the poker table with his bowl haircut and bookish demeanor, but there’s nobody in New York City better at separating you from your money in a game of Texas Hold ‘Em. Yeah, we know about Brooklyn’s Robert Varkonyi, who won the World Series of
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Introduction

Written by None - Do not Delete on October 5, 2005. Posted in Best of Manhattan, Posts

WELCOME TO BEST OF MANHATTAN (AND BEYOND) 2005 What do Gustav Mahler, Jimi Hendrix, Jenna Jameson, Federico Garcia Lorca, Greta Garbo, Hillary Clinton and Mike Meyers have in common? Just one thing: Somewhere along the line, they all realized that they had to come to New York, that it was the place to be. We agree.
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Best Egregious Crime Against the Spirit of New York Coney Island …

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Crime Against the Spirit of New York Coney Island Redevelopment The absolutely pointless and wasteful “renovation” of Washington Square Park deserves mention, but as far as large-scale damage to the very heart of what New York means is concerned, nothing is more odious than the city’s multi-million dollar plan for Coney Island. It’ll bring in
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Artificial Enlightener

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Best Live TV Moment Mexicans Go to commercial! If you’re looking for …

Written by None - Do not Delete on October 5, 2005. Posted in Best of Manhattan, Posts

ment Mexicans Go to commercial! If you’re looking for live television at its finest, there’s nothing that can beat “continuing coverage” of some major news story. A shuttle disaster, a police chase, a terrorist attack—or more often than not—some natural catastrophe. Local stations, it seems, are aching for an excuse to go live—it’s their time
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Best Chinatown Bus Lucky Star Corner of Chrystie St. & Hester St., …

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Bus Lucky Star Corner of Chrystie St. & Hester St., 888-881-0887 luckystarbus.com Girl with a brown ponytail, green eyes and perfect cheekbones, we saw you from the window when you bought your ticket in the friendly little shop on Chrystie Street. And as you loaded your duffle into the carrying compartment, we know you saw
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