Last Chance Foods: Cabbage
Taiwan grows the most expensive cabbages in the world in middle of downtown Taipei on a small plot of land estimated to be worth $150 million. In India, cabbages are an indicator of the rising cost of...
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Live/Work Made Legal
Artist Rob Swainston knows what it's like to face eviction. For almost 13 years, he has been living illegally in a loft apartment on the 10th floor of an old pasta factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn....
View ArticleFinal Williamsburg Pool Party Back On
If the cancellation of this summer's Pool Parties free concert series at the Williamsburg waterfront made you think of shaving your ironic mustache or pawning your bowler hat, rest assured. This...
View ArticleA Dromedary Lands in Brooklyn: New Cigarette Campaign To Feature...
In an attempt at hipness, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. has aligned its Camel brand cigarettes with the burgeoning artist community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Beginning next month, packs of Camel...
View ArticleIranian Theater Festival Takes Over The Brick in Brooklyn
For the first time, the bearded land of hipster irony will play host to a festival that celebrates Iranian theater. Beginning on Thursday night, Williamsburg's Brick Theater will stage 15 plays by...
View ArticleBrooklyn Flea Opens Williamsburg Location
The Brooklyn Flea, already well known in the brownstone neighborhood of Fort Greene, has opened another location along the East River in Williamsburg.Co-founder Eric Demby said the new site is...
View ArticleAdults Show Off Orthographic Skills at the Williamsburg Spelling Bee Finals
Churrigueresque, Kierkegaardian and götterdämmerung. Those are some of the words David Henry Haan had to spell correctly to earn a spot at the adult Williamsburg Spelling Bee final, which takes place...
View ArticleNew Nitehawk Cinema Brings the Silver Screen Back to North Brooklyn
Roll out the red carpet: the big screen is officially back in North Brooklyn. On Friday, the new Nitehawk Cinema lifts the curtain on its three-screen movie theater in Williamsburg. It’s part of a new...
View ArticleWilliamsburg Pool Parties Find New Home at the Floyd Bennett Field
Most New York indie rockers think of Williamsburg when they hear the name Jelly NYC. For five years, the company put on some of the summer's most popular pool parties at McCarren Park and then along...
View ArticleJelly NYC's Free Concerts Move to East Williamsburg
There's been a venue change for the free summer concerts promoted by Jelly NYC. In past years, the pool parties in McCarren Park and at the Williamsburg waterfront got indie fans and hipsters rocking...
View ArticleMonster Island Moves Out of Williamsburg Art Space
For the past 17 years, a squat industrial building covered in colorful graffiti on the corner of Kent and Metropolitan Avenues by the Williamsburg waterfront has housed various scrappy artist communes,...
View ArticleNew Music Venue to Open in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
A 100-year-old brick sawdust factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is being reborn as a 13,000-square-foot music venue and studio.The new rehearsal, recording and performance space, located at North 6th...
View ArticleCommissioner Benepe on the McCarren Pool
New York City Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe discusses the incidents at the newly opened McCarren Pool, takes calls from Williamsburg/Greenpoint residents, and puts pool violence in context.
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Bloomberg's Waterfront Development Comes Under Scrutiny from Sandy's Impact
When Mayor Michael Bloomberg rezoned Brooklyn’s Greenpoint-Williamsburg waterfront in 2005, most of the attention focused on the height of the proposed buildings, and how the subway system could cope...
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Film to Set La Bohème in Williamsburg (Beards and Tattoos Included)
Mimì and Rodolfo face many adversities in LaBohème– a drafty garret, a creepy landlord, tuberculosis. But all are mere annoyances compared to the L train at rush hour.Puccini's opera is the subject of...
View ArticleWhat's Williamsburg to You?
In her essay “How to Quit," n+1 contributorKristin Dombek talks about her personal history with Williamsburg and takes calls on how listeners' lives have changed alongside the changes in their...
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One NY Artist: Seamstress Monica Briones
Seamstress, sewing teacher and entrepreneur Monica Briones is a 33-year-old native of Corpus Christie, Texas. She teaches sewing and sells fabric and notions at SewMoni in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and...
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Bus Bridge from Brooklyn: Jay Street, Not Barclays, Best Bet Right Now
Brooklyn "bus bridge" locations(SEE UPDATE BELOW) Manhattan-bound Brooklynites: Go to Jay Street, not Barclays -- it will immeasurably improve your ride into Manhattan.We're getting reports this...
View ArticleHuge Turnout Over New Williamsburg Charter School
A public hearing on a proposal to co-locate a new Success Academy charter school with Junior High School 50 John D. Wells in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, drew hundreds of people Thursday night, with both...
View ArticleSuccess Charter Wins Approval to Open a Williamsburg School
The Panel for Educational Policy gave Eva S. Moskowitz the green light on Thursday to open a charter school inside of a Williamsburg middle school building, but opponents of the plan are taking the...
View ArticleFred Rubino, a Popular Brooklyn Superintendent, Dies
Fortunato “Fred” Rubino, the former longtime principal of I.S. 318 Eugenio Maria de Hostos in Williamsburg, who was recently appointed the superintendent of Brooklyn’s District 14, died Monday...
View ArticleAiming for School Diversity in Williamsburg, With Little Progress
Magnet schools, a principal under fire, sexual misconduct, teacher evaluations and Pearson were among the education topics in the news this weekend. How difficult is it to integrate a city school?...
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New Charter for Northern Brooklyn Fuels Debate Over Gentrification
The neighborhood around McCarren Park is typical of the changes that have swept through Williamsburg and Greenpoint. Along the side of the park you can see new residential developments with sleek glass...
View ArticleA Charter Booster Says He's Helping Parents Find New Choices
Most New Yorkers have never heard of Eric Grannis. But they might have heard of his wife, former City Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz - who founded the Success Academies charter network.Like his wife,...
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Niche Market | Gravestones at Grande Monuments
New York is a city of specialists from foodies to academics, laborers to shopkeepers. Every Wednesday, Niche Market will take a peek inside a different specialty store and showcase the city's purists...
View ArticleAfter Harassment Allegations, Lopez Runs For City Council
Former Congressman Anthony Weiner and former governor Eliot Spitzer aren’t the only scandal-stained politicians staging a comeback this fall. Vito Lopez — who resigned from the Assembly this spring...
View ArticleNew York Consumers Glimpse Obamacare Future Ahead
The health insurance exchanges at the core of the Affordable Care Act debut Tuesday, and some New Yorkers are eager to see what their options are in the online marketplace—while others see a potential...
View ArticleWilliamsburg Indie Band Members Killed
A musician shot and killed three members of the Yellow Dogs, a rock band whose members moved to Brooklyn from Iran after receiving political asylum.Two of the dead are brothers, a third was a member of...
View ArticleDe Blasio Strikes Deal For Domino Site
After an impasse, Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced a deal with developer Two Trees Management creating 537,000 square feet of affordable housing at the old Domino Sugar site in Williamsburg,...
View ArticleWilliamsburg Hipsters on a Testy Trip to the Beach
A day trip to the beach seems simple enough. But for a pair of twenty-something hipsters from Williamsburg, making it from their apartment to Fort Tilden in The Rockaways becomes a journey that tests...
View ArticleThe Chinese Guide to Buying Real Estate in New York
The Brooklyn waterfront is chockablock with new condominium towers and construction sites, but one new project stands out. The Oosten.Filling an entire city block, it's the first large building erected...
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Waterfront Fire in Williamsburg Still Smolders
A massive, seven-alarm fire that erupted at a Williamsburg, Brooklyn warehouse on Saturday continues to slowly burn. Yellow fire hoses stretched for blocks around the waterfront near the charred...
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How to Quit Smoking, One Illustration at a Time
New York City is of course known for its pizza. So to make your pizza known, you have to do something besides make good pizza. One pizzeria in Brooklyn, Vinnie’s, has started to draw attention not...
View ArticleL Train Riders: Help Is on the Way
Last year, every single station along the L line in Brooklyn saw an increase in ridership. Now, the MTA says it's adding seven new weekday round trips between 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. starting in...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: Kickstarting the Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan 1994 Museum
If your creative concept is original, quirky, and crazy enough, it will kill on Kickstarter. There was the Robocop statue, the potato salad, and now the Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan 1994 Museum....
View ArticleSawdust to Music
Paola Prestini, composer, executive director, and creative director of National Sawdust, and John Zorn, composer, arranger, producer, and saxophonist, talk about the opening weekend of the new...
View ArticleVideo Extra: The Renter on Bedford Avenue
Meet Tranquilina Alvillar, who has been living in the same Bedford Avenue apartment for 25 years. In 2011, developers bought her building to convert it into modern luxury rental units. The only problem...
View ArticleL Train Repairs Call for Shutdowns
The MTA is in a tough spot. Vital repairs are needed on the L train tunnel under the East River, but many riders rely on that line.The two options: full closure of the tracks in both directions for 18...
View ArticleBrian Lehrer Weekend: CO Governor Hickenlooper, Pool Rules in Williamsburg,...
A few of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.CO Governor Hickenlooper (First) | Pool Rules in Williamsburg (Starts at 24:11) | Puerto Rico and Luis Miranda (Starts at 41:50)If...
View ArticleBeleaguered Brooklyn Megachurch Attracts Pious and Partying Millennials
There's a crowd that gathers outside the Music Hall of Williamsburg every Sunday morning. But they're not there for a concert; they're C3 Church Global congregants, part of a Pentacostal megachurch...
View ArticleThe L Train Shutdown Will Bring Big Changes to Manhattan
Starting in April 2019, the MTA will begin repair work on the Canarsie tunnel connecting Manhattan to Williamsburg and other parts of north Brooklyn for more than a year. With just 16 months to go...
View ArticleRiders Grill the MTA Over L Train Shutdown at First Open House
For the first time since the MTA released its L train shutdown plans, the public had a chance to talk with the agency about the planned work, and how they'll get around without the L train running into...
View ArticleChange-Makers: 40 Years of Community Organizing in Williamsburg
As part of our Change-Makers Series, Felice Kirby joins us to discuss her forty years of activism in the Williamsburg/Greenpoint neighborhoods. She is the special projects director for the North...
View ArticlePower to the People, Fighting Hunger in Williamsburg, Your Brain on Food
Organizer and educator Eric Liu offers strategies for citizens to generate power and create social change. Longtime community organizer Felice Kirby discusses her forty years of activism in the...
View ArticleWhat's Your L Train Shutdown Survival Plan?
When the L train tunnel closes next April for 15 months of repair work, Canarsie resident Sharon Williams should be set. She's already figured out three alternative routes to get to her job. Her real...
View ArticleBrooklyn Businesses Say Customers are Local, But Staff Might Be Ensnarled in...
In Brooklyn some business owners along the L train route were wrapping their minds around New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's push to avert a total shutdown of the train tunnel. They told WNYC's Shumita Basu...
View ArticleThe Making of Hasidic Williamsburg
A new book tells the complicated history of the Satmar Hasidic Jewish community in Williamsburg. Nathaniel Deutsch, professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, joins us to discuss...
View ArticleNew NYC storm surge map shows how climate change threatens affordable...
Hurricane Sandy slammed 35 public housing developments managed by NYCHA, leaving tens of thousands of low-income New Yorkers without power for days or even weeks on end in autumn of 2012. Other types...
View Article51 Council Members in 52 Weeks: District 34, Jennifer Gutiérrez
The majority of the New York City Council members are new and are part of a class that is the most diverse and progressive in city history. Over the next year Brian Lehrer will get to know all 51...
View ArticleWilliamsburg mainstay Toñita's attracts a new generation to the social club
When Maria Antonia Cay opened the Caribbean Social Club in the 1970s, it catered to a working-class community where people from the neighborhood could find reminders of home — whether that was Puerto...
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