Hallelujah! Something’s happening in the old Cassette space, making Franklin Street a little less sparse. The past several weeks we’ve seen Brooklyn Label paper up their windows, Mr. Souvlaki bit the dust, […]
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Interboro: Beer For The Anti-Beer Snob In East Williamsburg
Walking down Grand Street past Bushwick Avenue amidst trucking supply shops and duct work fabricators, I almost missed Interboro Spirits and Ale’s new tasting room (942 Grand St.), which just […]
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More Pumpkin Beer Than Anyone Ever Asked For at the Brooklyn Pour Festival
As budding journalists, something that we are finding out at a very rapid rate is that there is really a fine line that you have to walk when going to […]
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The History of the Greenpoint Growler
A photo posted by Beer Street (@beerstreetny) on Jan 23, 2016 at 8:12am PST Many Greenpoint beer afficianados these days do not drink cans or bottles of beer. In places […]
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Greenpoint Is Your Oyster: Best Oyster Happy Hour Deals
It’s that lovely time of year when it stops being deathmetal-hot, but it’s still warm enough to enjoy a cold glass of rose or white wine and some delicious oysters as a […]
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Your Favorite Suds, Finally Portable from Greenpoint Beer and Ale Co.
Take it from us: there really is no way to prepare your body for the consumption of alcohol at ten o’clock in the morning. No amount of crack-of-dawn jogging, smoothie […]
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Food Book Fair Showcases the Best of Food in Print
Novelist Stephanie Danler’s favorite depiction of food in literature comes from the Seamus Heaney poem “Oysters,” which begins: Our shells clacked on the plates. My tongue was a filling estuary, […]
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Greenpoint Beer & Ale Relaunches This Weekend!
Greenpoint Beer & Ale (formerly Dirck The Norseman) is celebrating their new design, branding and renaming this Sunday from 1-3pm. If you’re stopping by there, you might as well swing […]
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Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Food and Drink in Greenpoint
Here are some of the neighborhood spots offering St. Patrick’s Day specials on Thursday, March 17th. Bakeri (105 Freeman St) Stout cake will be one of the specials at Bakeri. Check out […]
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Beef & Guinness Stew for St. Patrick’s Day
My mother is born-and-raised solid country stock from County Westmeath, Ireland. She remembers St. Patrick’s Day celebrations as chiefly religious, with the country going to mass with freshly-picked clovers pinned […]