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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, […]

Two beaten unconscious in Williamsburg after leaving gay bar in apparent hate crime

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The assault happened late on Saturday, around the corner from The Metropolitan, sending two young men to the hospital. More from Gothamist: The incident took place at 12:55 a.m., Sunday, September 23rd. According to the NYPD, the suspect approached the two men in front of 540 Metropolitan Avenue and “made anti-sexual orientation statements and assaulted […]

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 […]

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 […]