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The premise is simple: Go to different areas of the city and ask people: What are you doing tonight?
Here’s a few things people in Bushwick are doing tonight:
What Are You Doing Tonight? Bushwick from ANIMALnewyork.com on Vimeo.
How many burgers-per-capita can Brooklyn consume? Meet Kyle Huebe and Blessing Schuman-Strange, who just opened Burgersmith on Smith Street, hopping into a wildly competitive burger arena. Judging by these awesome interior shots, you would not be able to guess that Burgersmith specializes in hamburgers. But because it’s Smith Street, this would not be an ordinary burger joint, but rather, a ”farm-to-table” eatery … [Read more » ]
This barley wine flight was served up as part of a recent tasting at Brouwerij Lane (78 Greenpoint Ave) that attended by Jen G of The Greenpointers, a blog collective based in Greenpoint: We were served a flight of 5 barley wines (totaling 40 oz!) on a laminated guide detailing each brew. If you don’t know … [Read more » ]
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There are two very different pictures of Giovanna Vasconez circulating right now. Giovanna Vasconez is the Bushwick Community HS art teacher who, according to according to the New York Post and others, slept with one of her students and fooled around with another; the New York Post also says that official documents show she smoked pot and drank … [Read more » ]
So East Haven, Conn. Mayor Joseph Maturo was asked what he would do for the Latino community after four police officers were arrested on charges of harassment and intimidation. After his now infamous reply, “I might have tacos when I go home. I’m not quite sure yet,” protesters barraged Maturo’s office with hundreds of tacos. Those … [Read more » ]
OK, fine… “climate change”… or if you wish, “unusually high temperatures that have nothing at all to do with carbon emissions.” Whatever the cause, you can forget about skiing and snowboarding in Prospect Park this year. Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe just announced that Winter Jam 2012 is cancelled due to the unusually warm weather. It … [Read more » ]
So at first we got all excited about the “Junk in the Trunks” trees in Prospect Park being torn down, what with them being used by “vagrants” and all. And now, the workers went ahead and decided to randomly chuck around the debris–notably, in the lake in Prospect Park. “This is harming the wildlife habitat … [Read more » ]
City Journal says this Williamsburg hipster striding past one of the area’s many organic eateries is evidence of how Brooklyn has reinvented itself as a “postindustrial hotspot.” If you want to know about the forces that have transformed Brooklyn over the past few decades, this article is a great place to start. This must-read essay … [Read more » ]
Gothamist, when they’re not updating their Google feed for news on Blue Ivy, has been doing a great job keeping tabs on the latest NYC metro teachers accused of sleeping with their students. That includes today’s report on Lyndhurst High School Phys Ed teacher and football coach Scott Rubinetti, who allegedly had an inappropriate sexual … [Read more » ]
This post, by “The Invisible Lines,” is just one of several responses to yesterday’s rant against non-Jewish yuppies and hipsters in Crown Heights, with their new nightclubs, bars, and “sun tanning parties” held in full view of young children, on the Brooklynian message board. In another, somewhat more serious reply, Domino writes: I truly hate the “I was here … [Read more » ]
Oh YES we got those Brooklyn Message Boards!
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