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Club Crush Halloween Edition: The Week’s Best Electronic Lineups

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We all know that Halloween weekend is one of New York’s most epic hangs, and believe me when I say this year the party offerings are looking BOO-tiful! I won’t spend too much time tell you why you should go out… instead I’ll just cut straight to the chase and tell you where to go. […]

This One Goes to Eleven: Weekly metal roundup

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I’m still playing metal catch-up after mostly unplugging last weekend. Take one day off this time of year, however, and you miss five AOTY contenders, so let’s get started.

Greenpoint Beer and Ale and Northern Territory to be demolished for generic office space

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Further proof that we can no longer have nice things. Both popular watering holes will be demolished to make room for this generic shithole. No dates have been announced for the demolition. Plans have been announced for a new seven-story office building on the Greenpoint Waterfront, and today, YIMBY has the first renderings for the […]

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 […]

Updated: Fall restaurant openings in North Brooklyn: Misi, Gertie, Mission Chinese and more

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We’ve had some exciting openings in North Brooklyn lately, including Paulie Gee’s slice shop. This weekend, Missy Robbins’s new pasta joint Misi is also opening. There will be lines: If you’re the sort who sees no reason for Italian menus to extend past the primi course — and you might have a point there — […]

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.

Stuart Cinema & Cafe – a small indie theater opens in Greenpoint

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Stuart Cinema & Cafe opened at 79 West Street earlier this month. It’s operated by Emelyn Stuart who runs  The Ocktober Film Festival. Stuart grew tired of renting out venues for her festival and decided to find her own space.  The Dominican Bay Ridge native set her sights on Brooklyn, and found a warehouse on Greenpoint’s West […]