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The Williamsburg Brooklyn-based culture guide to New York and beyond.

Club Crush: The Week’s Best Electronic Lineups

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It’s a new season in New York – one of my favorites, in fact. Who doesn’t love fall in Brooklyn? It’s the perfect time to pig out on pumpkin flavored everything and snuggle up in chunky sweaters. Everyone seems to be brushing up on their baking skills, and friends are super down to meet for […]

You don’t have to wait for the great L train shutdown… we get a preview in October!

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It all began in the summer, when the MTA announced that there would be fifteen weekend shutdowns of the L Train between August and next April. Fifteen! Thanks MTA! With October approaching, the interruptions are almost upon us. There will be no service between Manhattan and Brooklyn for 4 weekends in October, 2 in November, 4 in February, […]

Braven opened a brick-and-mortar brewpub in Bushwick

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It’s called Braven Brewing Company Bar & Kitchen and they opened last weekend. The brewery and restaurant began serving beer Sunday afternoon at 52 Harrison Place, between Morgan and Knickerbocker Avenues, marking the local brewing company’s first brick-and-mortar location. The 2,500-square-foot warehouse once home to Lantern Hall has an 18-seat bar and table-seating for 40 […]

Rents are decreasing in Williamsburg as the L shutdown looms, well at least a little bit

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Rents are finally getting a tad cheaper in Williamsburg. With the L shutdown beginning in April of 2019, renters are paying (on average) $250 less than they did in 2016. Streeteasy has more: rents in the North Brooklyn submarket have declined to 2015 levels, and there are new signals that the market in Williamsburg in […]

This One Goes to Eleven: Weekly metal roundup

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Welcome to the first weekend of fall, folks. I’d tell you to get out the seance candles and inverted crucifixes, both those are year-round decorations around these parts.

Club Crush: The Week’s Best Electronic Lineups

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Friday marks the first day of fall! Holy hell, the season went by fast. But you know what they say – time flies when you’re having fun! And just because you had to say goodbye to summer Fridays, it doesn’t mean that the good times can’t keep rolling. Don’t believe me? Check out this week’s […]

CONTEST: Win 2 Tickets to Blacklizt at Elsewhere

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Elusive producer Zhu may have long since dropped the mask, but that doesn’t mean he’s run out of surprises. His Blacklizt party brand embraces the darker side of dance music by showcasing the sounds you won’t hear at his headlining festival sets. If you’re a fan of progressive house, techno or tech house, this new […]

Contest: Win 2 Tickets to Paradise at The Mirage

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Who better to ring in the first of day of fall than international tastemaker, Jamie Jones? Paradise New York returns to The Brooklyn Mirage on September 22nd, and we are floating on air just thinking about it! Come to think of it – fall in NYC really is a slice of heaven itself. The perpetual feeling of […]

Club Crush: The Week’s Best Electronic Lineups

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And just like that, the end of summer is upon us. It’s been a swell one, full of rooftops and courtyards and festivals and all of those things that get us through the big, bad northeastern winter. Just writing about it makes me feel warm and fuzzy. Lucky for us, it’s looking like the weekend […]