[VIDEO] This Gourmet Pizzeria in NoMad Serves Cricket-Topped Pizza and Lobster Calzones

Woodpecker is a new restaurant from restaurateur and chef David Burke in NoMad that serves up unique takes on classic Italian-American cuisine. In this episode of the excellent Fork Yeah series from our friends at Thrillist, see some of the more unique items, such as a cricket-topped pizza and a lobster calzone.

The newest notch on David Burke’s belt, Woodpecker by David Burke focuses on wood-fired cuisine. With two massive ovens, Burke cranks out pizzas, calzones, and classic American fare with his signature outside-the-box approach. You’ll find pizzas topped with crickets, calzones overflowing with lobster meat, and, of course, Burke classics like clothesline bacon.

Vintage News Report From 1994 Explores the Abandoned Brooklyn Subway Tunnel Under Atlantic Avenue

Brooklyn urban explorer and transit enthusiast Bob Diamond is most well-known for rediscovering, exploring, and offering unauthorized tours in, an abandoned subway tunnel under Atlantic Avenue. Starting from an unassuming manhole cover directly in the middle of the intersection at Atlantic Avenue and Court Street, Diamond would take interested tourists, locals, and even reporters down to the 1844 tunnel. He has a huge collection of vintage videos that he shares online from time-to-time, and in this one, we get to see a vintage 1994 news report from CBS's 48 Hours program. Check it out!