Hurricane Sandy

The long-awaited plan to mitigate the upcoming transit nightmare of being without the L for fifteen months, beginning April 2019, includes increased subway service, busing, cycling enhancements, and a new ferry line.

The MTA board approved the contract for repairs on the L train's Canarsie Tunnel today, confirming the shutdown will last for 15 months.

Nashville singer/songwriter Adia Victoria is out on tour, a tour that recently brought her to Chicago to share a bill with Strand of Oaks and Kevin Morby, and which has her in NYC tonight to play an early, NOT-cancelled show at Mercury Lounge TONIGHT (1/27) (Juno be damned)...

Patti Smith in Austin in 2013 (more by Sarah Frankie Linder) According to Gothamist, to commemorate the reopening of Fort Tilden--closed since Hurricane Sandy--the National Park Service, Rockaway Artists Alliance, Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy and MoMa PS1 are teaming up to present the Rockaway Arts Fest, an event that will run from late June through Labor Day and feature work from local and "internationally acclaimed artists...

Thurston Moore at Bowery Ballroom in April (more by Greg Cristman) Happy 2014! Browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, of which there are not many...

Triptykon at Inferno Festival 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro) First things first: for those of you who haven't fled town for the holidays already, there are some noteworthy shows this weekend...

Love holiday music but sick of hearing "Christmas Wrapping," "All I Want for Christmas (is You)" and "Feliz Navidad"? Were you just thinking, "I wish there were more low-fi sleezoid punk and pop Christmas songs that occasionally feature references to weed...

Cat Power at Station to Station (more by Lukas Hodge) In a new Apple holiday commercial, Cat Power takes on "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" (via Matador), and if it's snowing where you are today too, it's a nice time to check out this little holiday gift, which you can do be...

Flamin' Groovies @ Bowery Ballroom in July (more by PSquared Photography) We're coming up on the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy which hit NYC on October 29...

Ten months after Hurricane Sandy swamped the place, much-loved Red Hook watering hole Sunny's finally reopened last (8/29) after friends, patrons, and neighbors helped raise over $100,000 to repair it...