Tag: Williamsburg
The anticipated dread of getting a flat tire can surely spoil an otherwise enjoyable bike ride. Thankfully, there’s a new service pioneered by cyclist Shimon Kivman. Express Biker is, essentially, a vending machine made with bike riders in mind, providing items gearing toward the daily needs of rider — from tubes to lights to patch kits and […]
Perhaps inspired by the Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn’s recent forays into so-called “hipsterdom,” a Jewish group has launched a campaign called “Unite the Beards,” aiming to bring Williamsburg’s hairy masses closer to Hasidic Judaism. In the video above, with the tagline “Hasid and hipster, not as different as you think,” four white guys in various […]
After coming across this video of a group of Hasidic men intimidating cyclist Rafael Huerta, we reached out to Huerta to ask for his perspective on the incident. He explained that he records all of his bike rides, Russian dashcam-style, for protection in the even of an incident like this one, and that it was […]
Here’s a firsthand example of the kind of vigilante “justice” Hasidic Jews have long enforced on cyclists in Williamsburg and other areas in which they live. Rafael Huerta was riding his bike home when a Jewish man accused him of slamming into the man’s car, though it’s unclear in the video whether contact was actually made. It looks […]
Williamsburg may be the lucky recipient of more public green space, as the city plans to convert a block of Union Avenue to expand McCarren Park. The stretch sits between the pool and a small, triangular section of the park, and would large enough to house seven basketball courts–at the cost of the block’s 34 […]
The new face of Williamsburg’s iconic, abandoned Domino Sugar Factory has been revealed. Two Trees Management, which bought the property for $160 million last year, enlisted Barclays Center masterminds ShoP Architects to helm the project’s design, and the result is remarkable and sure to be polarizing: there’s a giant “O” -shaped high-rise that reportedly will […]
A community group called Town Square Inc. has visions of a museum to rival Manhattan’s grandest institutions on the waterfront of Williamsburg or Greenpoint. In their eyes, the Brooklyn Science and Art Museum would “[merge] the abstract pursuit of aesthetics with the concrete study of the natural world,” according to the Brooklyn Paper. “We want this to be […]
A new analysis of MTA data by NYU grad student Carson Qing shows that the L train is every bit as busy at 1am every night of the week as it is during the traditional weekday rush hours. Qing believes the data shows that the MTA should increase service on the Canarsie-bound train, which has […]
In the wake of Nechemya Weberman’s high-profile sex abuse trial, Hasidic Brooklyn’s modesty committees–self-appointed, loosely organized groups of men who take it upon themselves to enforce the community’s explicit and implicit rules for appropriate dress and conduct–have received increased attention from non-Hasidic residents of New York. The Times published a fascinating report highlighting some of the squads’ […]
