Opening Soon
New restaurants & bars, by neighborhood
The spots that just filed to open or just opened, straight from the state liquor filings.
- Williamsburg & Greenpoint this week
- Opening soon in Harlem
- Brooklyn's new tables this month
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What's new in New York, before it's news.
Fresh openings, new buildings and the neighborhoods changing fastest, written from the filings we track every week.
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Fresh from the filings.
Opening Soon · Oct 28, 2026
New Restaurants & Bars Coming to Williamsburg & Greenpoint
A Roman pizzeria from Rome, a likely Goan café and five more spots filed to open this week.
READ →The Best Bite · Oct 28, 2026
The 6 Best Pizza Places in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
L'Industrie's burrata slice, Ace's Detroit squares and Roberta's Bee Sting, scored and linked.
READ →The Best Bite · Oct 28, 2026
The 5 Best Mexican Restaurants in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Chiles en nogada on Graham Ave, a birria truck and Cosme-team tacos.
READ →The Best Bite · Oct 22, 2026
The 6 Best Pizza Places in Astoria, Queens
Milkflower's wood-fired pies, a top-50-in-the-US clam pie and a 1959 Sicilian square.
READ →The Best Bite · Oct 22, 2026
The 5 Best Mexican Restaurants in Astoria, Queens
Breakfast tacos on fresh tortillas, Oaxacan moles and a 4am cantina.
READ →The Best Bite · Oct 22, 2026
The 5 Best Sushi Restaurants in Astoria, Queens
A Ditmars classic, a family-run omakase and a tiki-bar sushi spot.
READ →The Best Bite · Oct 22, 2026
The 4 Best Chinese Restaurants in Astoria, Queens
Handmade soup dumplings, a new Sichuan kitchen and Chinese-Cuban classics.
READ →The Best Bite · Oct 22, 2026
The 6 Best Takeout Spots in Astoria, Queens
Thai boat noodles, giant heroes, Peruvian chicken and Greek gyros.
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Rankings worth arguing about
Our picks for the best new places to eat, by cuisine and by neighborhood.
- Best new tacos in Queens
- Best new date-night spots
- Best new pizza, ranked
Rising
The buildings changing the skyline
The biggest new towers and projects just permitted, and what's going up where.
- The biggest projects permitted this month
- New towers coming to Brooklyn
- What's replacing that demolition