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Brooklyn Flea and Smorgasburg bringing a Winter Market to Williamsburg

December 12, 2019 By Free Williamsburg

Brooklyn Flea and Smorgasburg bringing a Winter Market to Williamsburg

The two popular markets are coming to 25 Kent Ave. (8th Floor) on November 2 and will continue through March 2020. From Bklyner: The popular markets will set up shop in a 25,000-square-foot venue on the top floor of 25 Kent Avenue, a new eight-story office building that has hosted a variety of events since opening […]

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Featured, Williamsburg Tagged With: brooklyn flea, smorgasburg

Bushwick is getting a new, popular Philly fried chicken restaurant

November 18, 2019 By Free Williamsburg

Bushwick is getting a new, popular Philly fried chicken restaurant

Yahoo. The spot is called Redcrest and they open on Tuesday in the back of the Starliner bar. It looks delicious and if it’s good enough for Philly, then it’s good enough for us. Well actually, that’s not true, but we’re excited to give Redcrest a try: A popular Philadelphia fried chicken place called Redcrest will try […]

Filed Under: Bushwick, Featured, Restaurant & Bar News Tagged With: Redcrest, Starliner

FREEwilliamsburg’s Top 25 Albums of 2019

December 18, 2019 By Peter Rittweger

FREEwilliamsburg’s Top 25 Albums of 2019

There is something bittersweet about writing a Top 25 albums post at the end of a decade marked by so much change in music, the way its distributed, and the way it’s reviewed. The last thing I wanted to do, was rehash how algorithms have created our own individual musical vacuums for the thousandth time, […]

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Featured, Music, News Tagged With: baroness, Blessed, Blood Incantation, Chemical Brothers, Drowse, Drugdealer, Falls of Rauros, Girl Band, Halfsour, Horse Jumper of Love, HTRK, JPEGMAFIA, kanye west, Kevin Morby, Lana Del Ray, liturgy, Mikal Cronin, Ossuarium, Slauson Malone, State Faults, Sturgill Simpson, Sunwatchers, Uboa, White Reaper, Yellow Eyes

Greenpoint market The Garden closes unexpectedly after 25 years in business

December 2, 2019 By Free Williamsburg

Greenpoint market The Garden closes unexpectedly after 25 years in business

This is very sad news to hear that this local Greenpoint staple has closed. The Garden’s owner says the store couldn’t keep up with online shopping and chain grocery stores. They shut down on Sunday and will be missed. From their Facebook page: It’s time to say goodbye and thank you. After 25 years in […]

Filed Under: Featured, Greenpoint, Hot, News Tagged With: gentrification, The Garden

Le Crocodile is now open at the Wythe Hotel

December 18, 2019 By Robert Lanham

Le Crocodile is now open at the Wythe Hotel

We still miss Reynard, which closed quietly back in September. Thankfully, we’re happy to report that a new restaurant has opened in the same space on the ground floor at the Wythe Hotel. Le Crocodile is a French bistro from the same people behind Greenpoint’s Chez Ma Tante serving up classic dishes like Grilled Chicken […]

Filed Under: Featured, Restaurant & Bar News, Williamsburg Tagged With: Le Crocodile, Reynard, Wythe Hotel

New W-burg proposal by Two Trees includes towers with a waterfront park, beach, and amphitheater

December 20, 2019 By Robert Lanham

New W-burg proposal by Two Trees includes towers with a waterfront park, beach, and amphitheater

Two Trees has a new proposal for the area just north of Domino Park. Like the Domino Sugar complex, the proposal is over-the-top, ambitious, and largely out of scale with the rest of the neighborhood. But now that the quaint, lovable Williamsburg of old is ruined anyway, we say bring it on. From Curbed: Developers […]

Filed Under: Featured, Williamsburg Tagged With: Domino Park, gentrification, two trees

Now open: Casa Ora is a new Venezuelan restaurant in Williamsburg

December 12, 2019 By Free Williamsburg

Now open: Casa Ora is a new  Venezuelan restaurant in Williamsburg

      View this post on Instagram ~ The Library ~ Reservations @resy • Event Inquiries at CasaOraNYC.com/#events • • • #casaora #eventsspace #library #secretroom #dinnernyc #skylight #wineanddine #vintage #resy #williamburg #bestofbrooklyn A post shared by Casa Ora (@casaoranyc) on Oct 12, 2019 at 1:19pm PDT Casa Ora opened last month at 148 Meserole Street. […]

Filed Under: Featured, Restaurant & Bar News, Williamsburg Tagged With: Casa Ora, openings, Venezuelan

Now open: Pierozek bringing homemade pierogis to Greenpoint

November 24, 2019 By Free Williamsburg

Now open: Pierozek bringing homemade pierogis to Greenpoint

Pierozek is having a soft opening today at 592 Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint. The menu includes both savory and sweet pierogis, borscht, and croquettes. We couldn’t be more excited: Radek Kucharski and his wife, Alexandra Siwiec, do not think they’re coming late to the dance by importing a genuine Polish pierogi shop to Greenpoint, a Brooklyn neighborhood […]

Filed Under: Featured, Greenpoint, Restaurant & Bar News Tagged With: pierogis, Pierozek

We had a good run…

January 9, 2020 By Robert Lanham

We had a good run…

Websites change and so do neighborhoods. FREE Williamsburg turns 22 this year, which would normally make our spry little publication a millennial. Unfortunately, if you convert 22 to internet years it makes us, well, decrepit.  When I first arrived in New York in September of 1996, I rented a sizable two bedroom apartment on 93 Berry Street, […]

Filed Under: Beyond, Bushwick, Events, Featured, Greenpoint, News, Williamsburg Tagged With: 22 freaking years, end of an era, goodbye



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