Stellar New Slow Food Thai Spot Joins The Vanderbilt Avenue Street Party View all 7
Starting every Friday evening and running through most of the weekend, the Prospect Heights stretch of Vanderbilt Avenue, running from Atlantic Avenue to Park Place, hosts one of the city s most beloved and busiest block parties. Bars and restaurants set up tables in the street last year, hosting groups of families and friends for picnics on the median, with live performances appearing out of nowhere an incredible example of the city s pandemic-era Open Streets program.
Joining the merriment with its grand opening this weekend is a terrific new Thai restaurant called The Nuaa Table, located on the corner of Bergen Street (former home to the popular Beast). The spot is a sequel of sorts for chef Pitipong Bowornneeranart, who ran the kitchen at the well-regarded Nuaa on the Upper East Side until that establishment closed in 2018, and based on a lovely meal last Sunday at the new
Ashley Sears / King David Tacos [Official]
King David Tacos known for bringing actually good Austin-style breakfast tacos to NYC will debut its first permanent location on May 11. Until now, KDT’s tacos have been sold via carts at Grand Army Plaza outside Prospect Park, at Coenties Slip Park in the Financial District (temporarily closed), and in Madison Square Park, as well as at a growing list of coffee shops and cafés. During the pandemic, they also launched Taco Drops to deliver ready-to-be-heated tacos and queso across Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens.
Now, KDT has leased a massive 11,000-square-foot warehouse space (previously used for packaging Chinese herbs) in Prospect Heights, just off bustling Vanderbilt Avenue at 611 Bergen Street. They’ve installed a 4,000-square-foot kitchen, which the team has been working out of since mid March, and a small retail space up front. Most of the seating will be outside on a spacious 1,200-square-foot all-weather patio with an aw
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I never wondered where the WASPS were when I was growing up. It didn’t occur to me that a huge swath of Americana just wasn’t around. Even as an adult, I hardly noticed. New Jersey is such a diverse place that a group that wasn’t there was just not noted.
Lawrence Dems file for Township Council seats
Lawrence Dems file for Township Council seats
Two Democrats have filed nominating petitions to run for two open seats on the Lawrence Township Council, eliminating any political party primary fight in the June 8 Democratic Party primary.
Incumbent Township Councilmen James Kownacki and Christopher Bobbitt, both Democrats, filed their nominating petitions by the April 5 deadline.
Kownacki is serving in the ceremonial post of mayor for 2021.
No one filed to run for the Republican Party nomination for the Lawrence Township Council in the June 8 Republican Party political primary – the first time in several years that the party is not fielding candidates.
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Bodycam footage shows Newark police officers capturing an ex-con who forced a pair of men to drive him away from scene of an armed robbery at gunpoint, authorities said.
Shukri M. Dunell, 25, forced two men to rob an ATM inside of a Bergen Street store at gunpoint, and then forced them to drive him away from the scene a silver Ford pickup truck belonging to one of the victims around 11:50 a.m., Newark Public Safety Director Brian A. O’Hara said.
An officer located near the scene spotted the truck heading northbound on Chadwick Avenue, and began following the vehicle while corresponding with other officers over the police radio, bodycam footage shows.