Tag: east williamsburg
Bekim Trenova started the FNT underground boxing matches in 2009 and slowly they’ve become a bit of an NYC party phenomenon. Now he’s offered the public a rare look inside the arena. Trenova told Bedford + Bowery (who also shot the video above), that the matches are real, fall in a “legal grey area,” and […]
According to the New York Post, “Banksy’s a Bust!” His market is so bad that the Brooklyn Museum won’t even take a free piece by the famous street artist, the tabloid claims. Cara Tabachnick, whose family owns a building in East Williamsburg where Banksy painted two geishas during his month-long Better Out Than In “artist residency” in New […]
Half of ANIMAL’s staff lives in that part of Brooklyn where Williamsburg meets Bushwick. Sometimes, some of us walk under this art-like construction, perched precariously on an arch outside the Borinquen Plaza Houses. As that particular section isn’t the neighborhood’s most swankiest piece of real estate, there are a few overdue repairs to be made, for […]
How are we expected to celebrate Pi day when there’s not even a Google doodle to mark the occasion? There’s this Kickstarter, for one, where an artist and a faculty member from Williamsburg’s Green School are hoping to raise money for their students to paint a mathematical mural celebrating the famous figure. Painter Ellie Balk and […]
Okay, we know you’re sick of all these articles bemoaning the gentrification of North Brooklyn, but, here’s another one. The average rent of a one-bedroom apartment in Bushwick hit $2,800/month in February 2013, with studios averaging out at $2,400 and 2-bedrooms at $3,000. Compare that to a median monthly rent of $1,815 just a month earlier, […]
