Sometimes it’s important to take a break from talking about gentrification and overpriced lattes to remind ourselves that North Brooklyn is home to both the very rich and the very […]
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Posted inCommunity, News, Shopping
Beacon’s Closet is Opening its Greenpoint Doors this Saturday
Who wants to trek all the way to North 11th when you can just stay in Greenpoint? The owners of Beacon’s Closet seem to agree. The Williamsburg store closed officially […]
Posted inWellness
Cure Your Winter Blues– Ask a Therapist!
Dear Daniel, Can you offer some tips for folks who are feeling perpetually ‘down in the dumps’ due to winter weather/lack of sunlight/freezing cold temps? I do my best to […]
Posted inCommunity, News
Another Traffic Death: Young Woman Killed By Bus in Williamsburg
Unfortunately, we have another tragic traffic death to report in the neighborhood. At 1:30am on Sunday (3/2), 21-year-old Marisol Martinez was struck and killed by an MTA bus at […]
Posted inNews, The Hook-Up
Raekwon + Beard Transplants – The Hook Up (2/28)
This week in local news….. Raekwon showed up at a Williamsburg fried chicken restaurant to rap abut ice cream. Building owners are cheating the system by advertising “affordable” housing on obscure […]
Posted inArt, Culture, Eat & Drink
C’mon James Murphy
Dear James Murphy, Your music’s swell and we know how much you enjoy a good cup o’ joe (yes, we did watch a feature-length documentary all about how f-ing cool […]
Posted inEat & Drink
I Tried Paczki and You Can Too (only today!!!)
Today, February 27th, is Fat Thursday (Tłusty czwartek) and according to Polish-American tradition, it’s the one day a year that every bakery and pastry shop in town sell Paczki (pronounced […]
Posted inArt, Culture
Open Call for Bike Portraits (Deadline 2/28)
Bicycle Utopia, a transmedia project dedicated to the culture of urban cycling, launched an open call for photography and “photography-based art” on the theme of “complete streets and bike safety.” […]
Posted inCommunity, News
Greenpoint Condom Fail
Well, this is embarrassing. Greenpoint took the prize as the neighborhood with the lowest condom use in all of NYC, according to the recently published findings of a 2012 NYC […]
Posted inCommunity, News
We May Have Just Found the Worst Slumlord in Brooklyn
The first time I saw Malina Nealis, it was in a the video below, where she is recorded beating the cameraman with a file folder, yelling in a thick Eastern […]