Tag: Williamsburg
Until this week, a Spider-Man action figure and a dildo hung over a power line at the corner of Bedford Avenue and North 6th Street in Williamsburg. The Daily News, with quotes from “disgusted” New Yorkers, reports that it was mysteriously removed yesterday. However, with its readers’ delicate sensibilities in mind, the paper blurred out the work’s […]
After a roadblock earlier this week, the march towards turning Williamsburg’s Domino Sugar factory into gleaming, futuristic high-rises will continue as planned. The stall came when Mayor de Blasio asked for more affordable housing units than the developers and Michael Bloomberg, de Blasio’s predecessor, had agreed upon. Under a new compromise, Two Trees, the development company, […]
The much-dreaded/anticipated redevelopment of the Domino Sugar Factory could be slowing down, as Mayor Bill de Blasio has asked for more affordable housing units than were agreed upon under the Bloomberg administration. Jed Walentas of developer Two Trees isn’t having it, and a continued disagreement could delay the future of the project. “I’d very much […]
In a bid for “hipster”-baiting buzz that makes your average New York Times trend piece look tame by comparison, the New York Daily News is reporting that residents of three totally grimy, starving-artist neighborhoods — Bushwick (average one-bedroom rental as of December 2013: $1,990), Greenpoint ($2,859), and Williamsburg ($3,443) — actually wear clean clothes! Some of them even have […]
In conducting the interviews for this piece, something became clear: The reason that so many people care so deeply about end of 285 Kent, is that 285 Kent was more than a room where bands played. At 285 we witnessed the collapse of genre barriers in real time, as internet rap stars mingled with hardcore […]
Oh my god! There’s a Dunkin Donuts now open on Bedford and North 7th Street. How will the artist community handle this corporate invasion? Will the mom & pops shops be ok? Where did the mom & pops shops go? I could have sworn I still saw a bodega here last month… Anyway, I asked […]
Much hubbub was made when it was announced that A) Urban Outfitters planned to open a store in Williamsburg, and B) the company wanted to put a real-live bar inside. Now, it looks like the second part might not be happening, as Brooklyn Community Board 1 has rejected the company’s bid for a liquor license. […]
It was only a matter of time before Better Out Than In, Banksy’s month of working on the streets of NYC, ventured outside of Manhattan. And unsurprisingly, the first outer-borough works arrived in Williamsburg and Bushwick. The street artist gave a few pieces of citizen graffiti a “Broadway makeover,” slapping the phrase “The Musical” over existing […]
We love the time warps Google Street View accidentally creates when it juxtaposes newly-taken photos against older ones. First, there was a bank in Bay Ridge that changed hands as you walked; then, a scene of post-Sandy devastation jutted up against suburban tranquility on Staten Island. Now, thanks to Redditor stratomaster aka photographer Michael Tapp, here’s […]
Last month, Alaska Bar caught fire. It was a little electrical issue, but to be safe, the fire department chopped at the walls and the ceiling. We were standing by the entrance with the owner and the bartenders, kicking around a singed wall hunk. Debris was spilling out across the sidewalk in heaps. A group of […]
