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For a number of years, New York City’s largest concentration of “functionally extinct” American chestnut trees grew on the 16th-floor terrace of an apartment in Manhattan. Early each spring...

https://bedfordandbowery.com/2021/05/reviving-the-american-chestnut-from-a-new-york-city-terrace/

Last month, the projectors at Film Forum flickered back on for the first time in over a year, for a screening of Fellini’s carnivalesque tragedy La Strada.  “I wanted a(...) The post For t...

https://bedfordandbowery.com/2021/05/for-the-showman-behind-film-forum-its-on-with-the-show/

It’s no secret that the East Village has become “an epicenter of Chinese and Taiwanese restaurants” in recent years, and eateries aren’t the only Asian businesses moving into what New(......

https://bedfordandbowery.com/2021/05/looking-for-a-japanese-air-freshener-korean-shampoo-st-marks-is-the-place/

With the return of outdoor shopping season, there are big changes in Seward Park, where the Hester Street Fair held court for over a decade. Earlier this month, after an(...) The post A Walk Ar...

https://bedfordandbowery.com/2021/05/a-walk-around-smorgasburgs-new-sister-market-hester-flea/

Anne Hamburger, the founder and artistic director of NYC-based theater company En Garde Arts, began envisioning the return of live performances one month into the pandemic. Over a year later,(......

https://bedfordandbowery.com/2021/05/downtown-live-brings-free-outdoor-performances-to-an-altered-landscape/

When opening New York shows, stand-up comedian Natalie Cuomo often cracks a one-liner in reference to her recognizable surname. “The only thing I have in common with the governor of(...) The ...

https://bedfordandbowery.com/2021/05/no-comedian-natalie-cuomo-couldnt-pull-any-strings-during-the-pandemic/

RuPaul’s Drag Race, the Hunger Games film franchise, Lady Gaga, and Blue Ivy. What do all of these things have in common? Boundary-pushing and outrageous style and design. They also(...) The ...

https://bedfordandbowery.com/2021/04/rupauls-drag-race-designer-casey-caldwell-on-dressing-protesters-and-masking-nurses/

Last February, when the city shut down, Tazz Latifi chose to close her natural pet supply store in the Financial District. With Petropolis’ doors shut, Latifi, like many New York(...) The pos...

https://bedfordandbowery.com/2021/04/holistic-pet-shops-ride-the-pandemic-pet-gravy-train/

Walking through Bushwick for the first time, I don’t feel lost. Modesto Flako Jimenez, a Bushwick-raised actor, playwright, poet and educator, is my guide through the neighborhood as he sees(.....

https://bedfordandbowery.com/2021/04/a-bushwick-cabbie-turned-playwright-offers-a-driving-tour-of-gentrification/

On Saturday, April 24, Tompkins Square Park was in bloom and with so much spring in the air, even the pavement on Avenue B seemed to blossom. By noon, the(...) The post A Kaleidoscopic Tape Mur...

https://bedfordandbowery.com/2021/04/a-kaleidoscopic-tape-mural-encourages-the-city-to-roll-out-more-open-streets/