At 3.79 million square miles, the United States is a pretty big place, but what if all 300 million of us moved into one state? According to this neat infographic based on Brooklyn’s population density, Americans could all live “comfortably” in an “area the size of New Hampshire” and still have “extra room for parks.” Sounds delightful. |Cartophilia|
Amidst rent hikes and forced sterilization/gentrification of Brooklyn, the Eastern District clan throws a critically timed group art show: “East WIlliamsburg.” Produced by CA$H 4, Juan Doe, Jim Kiernan, Lucas McGowen, NohJColey, and Poster Boy channeling the Banksy – Robbo beef. Hop on the L to Morgan this Friday for a live DJ, free drinks, and art art art trickling steady from Brooklyn’s newest so-dubbed renaissance.
“East Williamsburg,” Mar 12 – Apr 11, Opening Reception Mar 12 7-10pm, Eastern District Gallery, Brooklyn
After some back and forth with the city for what seemed like forever, the EPA is moving ahead with plans to name Gowanus Canal a Superfund site. That means federal resources can now be allocated and someone will finally start cleaning up all the toxic crap that’s been accumulating in the Brooklyn waterway for decades. |City Room|
Photo by Will Sherman
Just about everyone knows that if there’s one thing that can just kill the atmosphere in a bar, it’s a goddamn baby! Well, that and the asshole who plays Barry Manilow songs on the jukebox, but I digress. Anyway, a bar in Windsor Terrace has had enough of the baby-in-bars menace and is putting its foot down: No more babies in the bar…after 5pm. Wait, what? Read more »
Because today’s only REAL news story is the snow in New York City, here’s some footage of snow in New York City. Trust, this is the most captivating 20 seconds ever produced. The video was bravely taken less than an hour ago in Brooklyn and provides a glimpse of the destructive nature this strange form of precipitation creates.
So much for those theories about the coastal elites: Like Middle America, Islamophobia is running deep in Brooklyn. |Gothamist|
Following his pasted tributes to bottle collectors, street artist Specter stuck this monumental golden shopping cart in Downtown Brooklyn.
Photo by Jake Dobkin
Gerhardt Fuchs, a 34 year-old drummer from Georgia known as “Jerry” to friends who recently played on Letterman with the band MSTRKRFT and toured with Vineland, The Juan MacLean, Turing Machine, Holy Ghost! and Maserati, fell to his death over the weekend after the hood of his sweatshirt got caught on a piece of a stalled freight elevator he attempted to jump out of, causing him to fall to his death five stories to the bottom of the elevator’s shaft in the building he was attending a party at on Berry Street in Williamsburg. Read more »
Just minutes ago, a skywriting plane flew over the city, leaving a puffy trail of text in its wake: the word “cloud” repeated over and over again. Here’s a photo from Crown Heights of the unidentified plane’s aerial scrawl, also reportedly seen somewhere in Queens. The performance is reminiscent of the cloud drawings artist Vik Muniz flew over Manhattan in 2000, but it’s not clear who’s responsible, just that their work was blown away as quickly as it came. Update: Artist Ron English took credit for the sky tagging project.
Photo by Will Sherman/ANIMALnewyork.com
Two Brooklynites recently quit their jobs and opened a small business selling home beer-brewing kits, which are apparently selling briskly. Go ahead and punch yourself in the face now for not coming up with the idea. I already did. |New York Times|
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