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The actor Cuba Gooding Jr., who had been accused by a score of women of groping or forcibly kissing them, pleaded guilty last year to a single charge of kissing a woman without her consent.On Tuesday, he will face trial in a civil lawsuit that accuses him of rape, and it is expected to include testimony from three women who will say that he abused them between 2009 and 2019.

The team behind West Village party restaurant Bandits, and the speakeasy above a Greenwich Village Five Guys, the Garret, is now turning its attention to aestheticizing the sports bar.While plenty of sports fans will always prefer to watch the game in a dive, the new spot in the works, called Rocco's Sports & Recreation, will feature "cheeky, vintage-inspired decor and clever takes on nostalgic game day eats and drinks," per a representative.

While pondering the Edward Hopper exhibit at the Whitney recently, I thought often of the term "ambivert."Many of the artist's works, such as Nighthawks, , and New York Movie, feature introverted extroverts having solitary moments in theaters and restaurants.These were people craving a quiet community; company but not necessarily conversation.

On a cold, snowy night in January 1977, Sal Piro waited in line outside the Waverly Theater in Greenwich Village to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show for the first time.A campy science-fiction/horror musical whose characters include the cross-dressing mad scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter, it had been developing a following for its Friday and Saturday midnight showings for several months.

A24, the independent film and television studio barreling into next weekend's Academy Awards with a boatload of Oscar nominations, is making an unexpected move into live performance, purchasing a small Off Broadway theater in New York's West Village.The studio, which until now has focused on making movies, television shows and podcasts, has purchased the Cherry Lane Theater for $10 million, and plans to present plays as well as other forms of live entertainment there, in addition to the occasional film screening.

1. Nicholas Gray, the founder of Grays Papaya, passed away at the age of 86.
2. Gray opened the first Grays Papaya location in 1972 on the Upper West Side, quickly becoming a New York City staple.
3. Gray's legacy lives on in the form

Raymond J. Johnson Jr. was a wiseguy, dressed in a zoot suit and a wide-brimmed fedora and waving a cigar in his right hand.When someone mentioned his name, the shtick took off.Ohhhh, you doesn't have to call me Johnson, he would say.My name is Raymond J. Johnson Jr. Now, you can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me Johnny, or you can call me Sonny, or you can call me Junie, or you can call me Ray Jay, or you can call me R.J. Or you can call me R.J.J.

Rosie O'Donnell is bidding farewell to New York City, at least for the time being.The comedian, actress and serial real estate buyer has decided to sell her last remaining Manhattan property: a sprawling penthouse in the Turtle Bay neighborhood with an immense rooftop terrace and stunning East River vistas.

We should not rush to judgment too quickly in the case of Daniel Penny.Too many already have done that.Penny, 24, has been identified by his attorneys as the Marine veteran who was video-recorded choking Jordan Neely, 30, on a New York City subway train last week.He might conceivably have earned praise for helping subdue an erratic man who was homeless and exhibited mental illness in a city where disturbing subway encounters are a way of life.

Today, the role of Where to Eat writer, usually played by Nikita Richardson, will be performed by an understudy.I hope you'll still enjoy the show, as we have a few exciting reader questions to address.The curtains open on Act I, a request for dishes from Florence, Italy, that can scratch the travel itch.

NYC's food and drink selection is massive, especially when it comes to bars.With new ones opening every day it seems, it's a constantly changing scene that we love to keep our pulse on.Depending on what you're looking for in a bar, you have so many options!Looking to snuggle up in a cozy speakeasy?Or maybe even enter through a hidden door?

New York City's outdoor dining program, a popular pandemic-era measure designed to be a temporary salve for a devastated restaurant industry, is about to become a permanent part of the city's landscape.A City Council bill, released on Thursday evening, called for creating a licensing structure that would allow outdoor dining structures to exist in roadways, but only from April through November.

The team responsible for some of Manhattan's trendiest restaurants and bars has another project in the works.Jon Neidich, the restaurateur behind Noho bar Acme and Dimes Square hangout Le Dive, is opening a French restaurant in Greenwich Village at 260 Sixth Avenue, between West Houston and Bleecker streets, What Now NY reports.

Jollibee, the Filipino fast-food chain with a cult following in the United States, will open its next location in Elmhurst, Queens.The chain has signed a lease at 91-19 Queens Boulevard in Flushing, across from the Queens Center Mall, the website Secret NYC reports.It's Jollibee's fifth location in the city, following the opening of its flagship outpost at 1500 Broadway, between West 43rd and 44th streets, in Times Square last year.

The Michelin Guide is out with the first round of New York restaurants it's considering for awards this year.Fourteen restaurants in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Westchester were added on Wednesday to the organization's New York guide, a running list of restaurants in contention for awards.It's the first round of new additions since Michelin announced its stars and Bib Gourmand recipients last fall.

Moroccan restaurant Dar Yemma in Astoria found its ratings on Google have plummeted with hundreds of one-star reviews written in French due to a bizarre she said-they-said interaction, unleashed by a French influencer and her million-plus following on Snapchat.The conflict allegedly stems from a disagreement between the managers of Dar Yemma, which was reviewed by the New York Times, and influencer Kenza Benchrif, known online as Poupette, with 1.1 million Snapchat followers.

Mother's Day is Sunday, and Father's Day is June 18.Major occasions to be sure, but for those of us whose families don't live in New York City, there's always the pressing question of where to take your relatives when they decide (or deign) to visit.Only a few weeks ago, I was recommending spots for persnickety teenagers.

I came here to find Greenwich Village, only missed westward some three thousand miles.I came too, to placate in the 20s, missing again some hundred years, or some lifetime.And instead of nuzzling the down of a Hart Crane what I found were Rilke's quatrains; a Paris of poverty and death.Be well people of Portland.

The New York City Police Department said a man was arrested and charged Tuesday in connection with a string of attacks on a gay bar in Manhattan that saw its front window smashed by bricks and a rock four times in less than one month.Sean Kuilan, 34, of Hell's Kitchen, the Manhattan neighborhood where the attacks occurred, was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, criminal mischief and reckless endangerment, according to the Police Department.

A 30-year-old man died on Monday afternoon after he was placed in a chokehold by another man during a fight on the subway, the police said.The police arrived at the Broadway-Lafayette station bordering SoHo around 2:30 p.m. in response to a report about a physical fight that had broken out on an F train traveling north.

What was Daniel Boulud's modern kitchen and bar, adorned with French copper cookware, now pays homage to Mexico, specifically Tulum, the popular Yucatan destination.(Tulum is big this week; see below.)An elaborately decorated fantasyland with 165 seats, Ixta is the restaurateur Mike Himani's largest undertaking to date.

The amount of excellent food available in New York City is dizzying - even during a pandemic - yet mediocre meals somehow keep worming their way into our lives.With Eater editors dining out sometimes several times a day, we do come across lots of standout dishes, and we don't want to keep any secrets.

I doubt I'd have enjoyed meeting the real Robert Moses, New York's paver of highways, evictor of minorities, eminent domain eminence and all-purpose boogeyman.But it's a huge pleasure to meet him, in the form of Ralph Fiennes, in David Hare's Straight Line Crazy, which opened on Wednesday at the Shed.