The Lot Radio (17 Nassau Ave.) is an independently owned non-profit online radio station that streams from a reclaimed shipping container in an empty North Brooklyn lot. To help fund the radio station, The Lot Radio has a café kiosk that sells drinks and snacks. Plus, it played host to Charli XCX this past May.
The Lot Radio’s founder François Vaxelaire has revealed plans to build a new structure to house the radio platform and…
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The”lot” may be empty but the nearby residential community suffers from the noise pollution that emanates from the outdoor speakers that blare when the cafe is in operation. The Lot “menu” needs to also offer more consideration for the people who live here, and their quality of life. But given the Lot track record over the years, good luck with that. Stream your station online, not directly into people’s homes at all hours, uninvited and unwanted.
there’s no nearby residential community and the sounds is nearly inaudible at this point from inside the lot. what exactly does the menu need to satisfy this made up constituency?
Wonderful neighbor, and vital institution, and place of community for our local music scene. There’s nothing else like it. I think they keep the music quite low; it’s more like background ambient noise within the venue. McCarren Park is actually far louder, folks who use amplified sound there, which can be truly annoying, are 10x louder than the Lot. Excited for The Lot to continue to grow.