This article made possible by a donation to our Writer’s Fund from local reader donations! Things are looking up for the North Brooklyn Boat Club. Even a hurricane couldn’t wipe […]
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Meet the Designers: Williamsburg Fashion Weekend
This article made possible by a donation to our Writer’s FundRaffle by Selamat Pagi. There are few better signs that you picked the right thing to wear to an event […]
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Help Us Map Greenpoint!
This article brought to you by a donation to the Writer’s Fund by Paulie Gee’s. Neighborhoods are notoriously tricky things to pin down, especially in New York. While we all […]
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Counting Our Homeless – An Annual Controversy
Each year, in the dead of winter, the Department of Homeless Services sends volunteers – as many as 2,000- to less-than-scenic neighborhoods around the city to do a hand-count of […]
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The First Thanksgiving – in Greenpoint
For those of us who move to New York to start our adult lives, it’s a great moment when we find ourselves in a living situation stable enough to invite […]
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American Cheese Month at Eastern District
The rain returns, the beach is closed, and it’s dark by the time you’re home from work; Fall has a lot to apologize for. Luckily, like all the best apologies, […]
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Brooklyn Fancy, Manhattan Casual: A NYC Fashion Phenomenon
This past Saturday I had plans to attend an art show held in a Manhattan apartment, plans that I, a municipal employee who works in a Queens office with a […]
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Williamsburg Fashion Weekend S/S 2013
Williamsburg Fashion Weekend’s founder, producer and creator Arthur Arbit is all about conscientious, ethical clothing made here in the USA, not in 3rd world countries. His message was when you’re […]
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Mexican Standoff: Greenpoint’s Best Taco
If you’ve made it this far into the summer without downing a single taco, I don’t know whether to congratulate you on managing to avoid an increasingly ubiquitous food or […]
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The 3rd Annual Cheesemonger Invitational, Cheese Pun Free Edition
If Mike Bloomberg were to call me tomorrow morning and tell me my services were no longer required, I’d hardly bother to hang up the phone before marching into the […]