Artists! Community groups! Businesses! Northside Art @ Williamsburg Walks just extended their application deadline to next Friday, May 8th. If you missed it in previous years, Northside Art is part […]
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Ona Abelis is a poet & journalist in Brooklyn.
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War Is Trauma? Booklyn Helps War Veterans Make Art for Social Justice (Part 2)
Booklyn’s Marshall Weber knows the facts, and he explains them during our interview with an astounding passion. It’s rare to meet someone like him—informed and active about an issue that […]
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Booklyn’s Marshall Weber on artists’ books & revolutionizing the art world (Part 1)
In the nineties, Booklyn Artists Alliance would have been an interesting place in New York—in fact, it would have been just one of the many interesting places in this city […]
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Greenpoint of View: The Secret Origin of Midtown Comics
How long have you been here? And, how has the neighborhood changed since then? We all have our stories about the undulating Greenpoint streetscape—people moving in, people moving out, condos […]
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So you want to self-publish? 10 points to consider before you go to print
Before the Internet, you needed a book agent or a handful of luck if you wanted to spare your novel a slow death in a publisher’s slush pile. But now, […]
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Instagram Recap: Greenpoint Gallery Night
Even though this past Friday brought more (unwanted, unexpected) flurries and cold, gallery owners took the storm in stride and kept their doors open late for Greenpoint Gallery Night. And […]
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Edenworks Pioneers Commercial Aquaponics in Bushwick
On a cold day in March, the snow is already coming down thick when I emerge from the subway at the Montrose L stop in Bushwick. Somewhere near here, there […]
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Instagram of the Day: @ThatShannon
Hello, Greenpoint! Are you reading this on your cell phone while waiting for the G train? Me too. What better way to get your daily dose of colorful, fun, and […]
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Eight Outstanding Photographers with Studios in Greenpoint
As the cold rages on, you might be considering hibernating with your Netflix for a few more weeks. But before you start streaming Ida, check out what some of these […]
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TONIGHT in Greenpoint: HUFF THIS! plays at Coco 66 (10pm)
There’s a stellar night of music going down tonight at beloved local gem Coco 66 (on 66 Greenpoint Ave): The Soon-Another (8pm), Leisure Studies (9pm), HUFF THIS! (10pm), and City […]