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View ArticleNorth Brooklyn Boat Club Holds First Member’s Meeting of 2013
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 the polish off their...
View ArticleSpring Greenpoint CSA Roundup!
Robyn Van En, Pioneer of the CSA Movement Every weekend many of us hit the farmers market circuit, navigating between Union Square Park, Union St, and Russell St in an effort to avoid the wilted...
View ArticleCommunity Meeting Notes: Greenpoint Landing & 77 Commercial St
“We’re creating a neighborhood on the waterfront.” These were the poorly-chosen words of Melanie Meyers, a representative for the Greenpoint Landing development. She appeared alongside...
View ArticleBattery Harris and the DOT: A Love Story
When opening a new bar, coming away with a positive experience from a community board meeting presided over by a group hawkishly vigilant of both new liquor licenses and rapidly-vanishing parking...
View ArticlePoints of View, Literally: Save Greenpoint and Reasonable Development
On Wednesday’s crisp afternoon, a crowd that estimated itself at somewhere between 65 and 100 gathered to renew the call to action to prevent two (literally) looming developments from progressing...
View ArticleBlood and Rubble: Williamsburg Fashion Weekend S/S 2014
Four months and twenty days before 11 designers debuted their latest collection on the stage at the venue Villain on North 3rd St for Williamsburg Fashion Weekend, garment workers in Bangladesh were...
View ArticleCaptured Tracks, Our New Downstairs Neighbor
Around six months ago I saw diamond plate going up on a renovated wall at 195 Calyer street, just east of Manhattan avenue. I wrote it off at the time as simply the ugliest siding I had yet seen in a...
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Bill, I say this as someone who has supported your campaign since before you were thought of as a viable candidate: I have never been closer to voting for your opponent than I am after watching your...
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View ArticleNew Italian ‘Le Fanfare’ Serves up Dinner with a Side of Jazz
In a neighborhood largely under occupation by the Haslegrave brothers, we walked into new bar and restaurant Le Fanfare to the pleasant surprise that it wasn’t another one of theirs. The design of the...
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