We love a bargain and North Brooklyn has plenty of them when it comes to happy hour boozing. Here are some of our local haunts with great cheap drink deals: Williamsburg Happy Hours and Specials • Alligator Lounge offers free pizzas when you buy a drink — all day and night. • The Charleston has […]
A North Brooklyn Visitor's Guide
No visit to New York is complete without a visit to the North Brooklyn neighborhoods of Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Bushwick. Formerly three working-class and industrial neighborhoods, North Brooklyn now hosts many of New York’s best restaurants, a thriving art scene, and New York’s best shopping and night life. Hipster jokes aside — Girls is filmed […]
Spring is finally here, let's drink outside: the best bars for outdoor boozin'
It’s finally nice outside and if you don’t mind a passing storm, it’s likely to be pleasant all weekend. That, of course, means it’s time to start drinking outside. Since there have been a couple of openings since last time it was warm (which seems like a hundred years ago) we’ve updated our outdoor boozin’ […]
Whisk: a better on-demand car service app for Williamsburg and NYC
SPONSORED POST If you’re looking for the best way to get around from Williamsburg, look no further than Whisk, the newest on-demand car service app in the city, which just added more than 100 app-activated cars in Williamsburg. This means that when you want a ride, Whisk has you covered. New riders get $10 off […]
Roberta's swag is on sale
If you want everyone to know what a cool kid you are, you need to be spotted in a Roberta’s sweatshirt. They’re currently on sale for 20% off because it’s about to be too hot to wear a sweatshirt, anyway. Take note that only sweatshirts are on sale. Use the promo code PIZZASALE14 for the […]
Meet Coyote and Crow, the raspy voice at Bedford Avenue
Lately, when I’m rushing to catch the L to work, skipping down the stairs from Bedford Avenue two at a time, one sound freezes me dead in my tracks- the banjo. When I hear strings being plucked and a hefty boot stomping on a tambourine, I tiptoe down the rest of the stairs, as if […]
The top of OfficeOps becomes a MEAT MRKT
This Saturday, MEAT MRKT takes over the top of OfficeOps in Bushwick for the first of an integrated pop-up series, pairing music, art and fashion, told with an urban tilt. Talking with founder Sebastian Morris, the founder of MEAT MRKT, his aim was to make the event more than local vendors and more of an […]
Hipster olds are invading your precious Brooklyn
Old people: what won’t they ruin? As if ushering George W. Bush into office (twice), bankrupting Social Security, and racking up so much goddamn debt that most young people will work until the day we die to pay it off weren’t enough, old people are now literally invading our turf. Sonja Sharp of the New […]
Second person goes missing in Bushwick
The NYPD is looking for missing 15-year old male Casey Chance. Chance was last seen at his residence, located at 99 Stockholm Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn, at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 29. He was wearing a blue sweatshirt, tan pants, and blue sneakers. He was carrying a black backpack. He is 5’9, 120 lbs., […]
The Wick is finally hosting shows starting tonight: Keiji Haino (plus full schedule)
Tonight’s the night. The Wick has been teasing us since 2012 but tonight the 4,000-square-foot beer hall and concert space will finally have music! Check out Keiji Haino at 260 Meserole Street in Bushwick: Keiji Haino (Haino Keiji) born 1952 in Chiba, Japan, and currently residing in Tokyo, is a Japanese musician whose work has […]