The McCarren Park pool, which has only been up and running as a functional pool since 2012, is back in business for the summer 2016 season. The pool was originally […]
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You Gotta See It Once! The Amazing Giglio Feast!
If you have lived in North Brooklyn for any amount of time and have never seen the Giglio—you don’t know what you are missing. This celebration of Italian culture is […]
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Weekend Music: We Sold the Farm to Pay the Band (7/1 – 7/3)
Thanksgiving has the biggest club night of the year. Christmas week, Regina Spektor and El Vez put on legendary holiday shows. But 4th of July, it’s like a blizzard hit here. Greenpoint empties out. Major venues don’t […]
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For Poland, Euro Cup 2016 Hopes Sadly Pass
Although Poland suffered a heartbreaking loss to Portugal yesterday in the quarterfinals of the 2016 Euro Cup, Polish pride was on full display around Greenpoint. Several soccer-friendly neighborhood bars were […]
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Weekend Art Roundup: July 1
With July 4th on the horizon, it feels like most of North Brooklyn is at the beach (or heading to Saratoga to see a band play) but there are a […]
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Inside Adelina’s: Street Art, Tapped Wine, and Vegan Cuisine
Toby Buggiani describes his 4-year-old wine bar and restaurant as “a tiny, quirky space” where he gets elbow-deep in pizza dough and fresh vegetables on the daily. It’s a quiet […]
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A History of Greenpoint in 25 Buildings – P.S. 34
P.S 34, also known as the Oliver Hazard Perry School, is more than an elegant old red brick school building on the corner of Norman Avenue and McGuinness Boulevard. Built […]
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Weekend Music: Time Out of Mind (6/24 – 6/26)
Veteran hardcore punk bands are an odd thing. I’m thinking about the bands you listened to twenty years ago. The ones where you see their name in the concert listings […]
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On Conor Oberst’s Voice at Northside
Its November 2002, and Pagan Kennedy of the New York Times, searching for a way to describe the fawning reverence of Conor Oberst’s young fans writes: “Maybe years from now they’ll be […]