"Rest assured kids, Snowmine are back with a new album this year, playing a much anticipated show right here in Williamsburg. Tickets on sale now."
Gl...
"When Long Island’s underground hero’s As Tall As Lions broke up a few years back, they left a big hole in our hearts. After fans played their albums on...
"Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present." - Alan Watts...
Protestors rally against forthcoming 7-Eleven in the East Village
Hoping to ignite city opposition with another protest, a grassroots campaign once again rallied against a forthcoming 7-Eleven in the East Village Sunday.
Shouting “7-Eleven suck...
Brooklyn rents almost as expensive as Manhattan
Brooklyn rents are rapidly rising and the borough is catching up to Manhattan’s pricey housing, accordi...
"Despite the influx of hipsters and high-income professionals into a few hot neighborhoods, Brooklyn’s population largely remains crushingly poor, and a...
"The the gentrifier as consumer is only one of many actors participating in the process. To explain gentrification according to the gentrifier’s actions alone, while ignoring the role of builders, developers, landlords, mortgage lenders, government...
by Katarina Hybenova
"Two important meetings that dealt with a question as old as New York were held last night in Bushwick. The first one, a regularly planned Community Board 4 meeting was set to discuss a proposed rezoning of nine squa...
by: Sonya James
Will Brooklyn crack under the weight of gentrification? | SmartPlanet
"You can walk down a street in Brooklyn - a street you’ve walked...
It is not surprising that young white males – most between thirty and forty – play major roles in the production of hip-pop. It’s easy to forget this beca...
"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‘the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.’ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sa...
"Come see our e9productions artist Charles Jourdan performing live, headlining our event for our fourth annual Make Music NY summer solstice festival. We ar...
"Can’t believe it’s been a year since our Houston and Bowery Mural Summer Solstice street show! Come out today from 12:30pm - 9pm and catch some of Brooklyn’s finest, New York’s greatest, and from Africa and beyond, artists of our 2013 su...
NYC East Village Apartments Go for $10 in Former Mars Bar Building
"In New York City, $10 can get you four subway rides, three slices of pizza, five cups...
More Apartments Coming Soon
"After a lull in development during the downturn, the number of apartment units under construction is back to late 2008 lev...
"In the latest ‘Burg shocker, DNAinfo found some presumed hipsters who complained “poseurs” are ruining the neighborhood. Too many people who don’t live in Williamsburg are filling up its bars and streets on the weekends, they sai...
Red Hook Summer: Spike Lee Returns to His Brooklyn Roots
“He may not be transferring his basketball loyalty from the New York Knicks to the newly installed...
News Flash: Greenpoint/Williamsburg Desperately Need Affordable Housing
A 2005 promise from the Bloomberg administration has gone unfulfilled.
Dozens of...
Community Group Promotes Solar Power in Brooklyn
Grassroots nonprofit Solarize Brooklyn just launched with the aim of bringing cost-effective solar power to Brooklyn homeowners on a large scale. The 2013 campaign will focus on bringing solar power ...
"A searchable database of small presses and literary publishers, including submission guidelines, manuscript needs, response time, and other details for ficti...
Brooklyn Free Clinic
The Brooklyn Free Clinic is student run organization that provides free health care to the uninsured in Brooklyn.
"Our volunteers are students and physicians from the SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, College of Health ...
