Day: August 19, 2024

Calling all hard cider fans! CiderFeast NYC is returning to Brooklyn this coming October.

Presented by Food Karma Projects, CiderFeast NYC celebrates all things hard cider. Now in its tenth year, the festival will be the kick off to Cider Week in New York on Oct. 5 at Industry City.

“I was very active at Cider Week in 2014 and organized the first CiderFeast at the Seaport, then loved it so much I kept hosting each year,” said Jimmy Carbone, creator of CiderFeast NYC. “It’s easy to be converted to fine, dry cider when you’re drinking and eating with industry pioneers like Steve Wood of Farnum Hill Cider, Eleanor Leger of Eden Ciders, and Andy Brennan of Aaron Burr Cider. I can’t wait to share these ciders for the tenth year in a row!”

CiderFeast NYC puts a spotlight on over 20 ciders from New York State and the surrounding region. Guests will be able to try sample pours from New York’s Angry Orchard Cider House, Brooklyn Cider House, Graft Cider, Hudson North Cider, Hudson Valley Farmhouse Cider, Indian Ladder Farms Cidery & Brewery, Original Sin Cider, Quartz Rock Vineyard, Sauvage Beverages, and Treasury Cider, Vermont’s Eden Ciders and Vermont Cider Co., New Jersey’s The Ciderhouse at Ironbound Farm, Pennsylvania’s Bucktail Cider Co., European brands Aval Cider (France), Romilly Cidre (France), and Barrika Basque Cider (Spain), and more.

The fest will also include a food menu with cider donuts from Stone Ridge Orchard, Dakota Hams’ 24-month-aged Kentucky ham, selections from whole-animal butcher and salumeria Ends Meat, paella and Parés Baltà wine tasting by Chef Rafa de la Rosa, Cabot Creamery Grilled Cheese hot off the griddles, and hot sauces from BamuBamu Fire Club, Rocket Fuel Foods, and Coney Island Saucery.

Tickets and packages start at $45 (plus fee) per ticket, with VIP and Group options available. For more information, visit ciderfeasthq.com.

A Ridgewood, Queens man was arrested at the Barclays Center in Downtown Brooklyn on Wednesday, Aug. 14, for allegedly impersonating an MTA worker with forged identification while boasting about his “dangerous adventures” on social media.

Israel Santiago, 62, of 1724 Harman St. in Ridgewood, was booked at the 78th Precinct, where he was charged with criminal impersonation and a slew of other related crimes after a NYC Transit intelligence unit began monitoring his social media activity following a tip from a concerned citizen who saw Santiago on TikTok in late July.

Members of the intelligence team tracked Santiago and found him entering a restricted area at the Atlantic Ave-Barclays Center transit hub on Wednesday morning. He was wearing an MTA hat, reflective vest, shirt and forged MTA identification.

The Ridgewood man is an MTA contractor currently employed in the subway system. He had in his possession an MTA key card labeled NYCT MetroCard Temporary Transportation, but Santiago was not authorized to be in the secured transit area of Barclays Center when he was apprehended, police said.

“Impersonating a transit worker and wearing the uniform without proper authorization and training, while entering restricted areas, is a serious crime that can put real subway employees, the public and emergency responders at risk when something goes wrong,” MTA Spokesman Lucas Bejarano said. “This is not a reality show, and we’re grateful to the NYPD for excellent investigative work that gave this wannabe a more fitting costume — handcuffs.”

Santiago was also charged with two counts of criminal trespassing, five counts of possession of burglar’s tools, five counts of criminal possession of stolen property and forgery.

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