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Tonight, get under the covers to raise cash for Mellow Pages
More books, less condos. Think about all the great things that books and libraries have done for you in your life. Been there when no one else was. provided free, mind-expanding entertainment (provided...
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Why does this ladder shelf costs four hundred dollars?
Globe not included What you see in the above picture is an “upcycled ladder shelf” made of two burlap-covered boards laid across the rungs of an old ladder. “Oh, that’s cool I guess, if you have room...
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Show off your tiny little film skills at tomorrow’s Vine Film Festival
Can you make a vine better than the reigning King of Vine twerking? Get outta here MTV at the Barclays trying to emulate that real Brooklyn vibe! If you want real, check out the Vine Film Fest tomorrow...
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The fall paradise that is Highland Park Ridgewood Reservoir
Yep, this is in New York City. Photo by Camille Lawhead There’s nothing like finding a spot where, if you squint and hold your head at a really specific angle and ignore the wailing sirens, you’d swear...
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3rd Ward’s Wednesday night Drink n’ Draw finds a new home at Bat Haus
Get ready to draw, get ready to drink, all over again. We all got bummed out when 3rd Ward closed. Not about your art that was either your livelihood or your work’s culmination, now stuck within the...
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Bed-Stuy the new Williamsburg the new real estate panic
Yeah sure, just knock it all down and put up shitty boxy condos. via Flickr user Atom Just when we thought the “X is the new Y” consensus for Bed-Stuy was that it was “the new (old) Lower East Side,”...
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Hang with sexy activists like yourself (and get free beer) tonight at duckduck
The scene at a previous Streetup in Manhattan. Let’s get even more people at this one, BK. via Facebook Today is a good day for thinking about the kind of city you want to live in in the future. Of...
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Should Bushwickians blame rising rents on Australia? Sure, why not
God damn you Dundee! Everyone has a theory for rising home prices in New York. Hipsters! Artists! A housing shortage wrought by confusing and onerous building regulations! NIMBYism! Greedy landlords!...
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Omar comin’: Michael K. Williams hanging out at Bedford Hall Sunday night
Yes indeed You guys like TV? Yeah, we do too, in theory anyway. We can’t afford one, nor can we afford cable. But we still keep up, thanks to DVDs and Netflix and The Pirate Bay Hulu. So that’s why we...
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Here’s the video Superchunk shot at Shea Stadium
Hey, remember when we told you about Superchunk shooting a video at Shea Stadium? And you decided not to go because you didn’t want to be part of some shitshow? Well not only did you miss being part...
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Gentrification eats its own tail in Bushwick while landlords laugh it up
Tax shelter. via Flickr user Elizabeth Nolan Brown Old school vs. new school gentrifiers was a fight that was bound to come up at some point in neighborhoods like Bushwick, and according to a New York...
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Get a free crash course in your housing rights this weekend at the Silent Barn
Has this happened to you? Learn what your rights are if it does You’ve got a lot in life to worry about, between work, relationships and the knowledge that one day the sun will implode and end all life...
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Drink free beer and eat burritos in Bed-Stuy for a good cause on Saturday
Give a can, get a jar this weekend. Seems like a good deal to us. via Facebook Beer is great. Burritos are great. Brooklynites are charitable folks with great hearts. Why not combine them for the good...
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Graffiti bombers hit new Bed-Stuy building with ‘Gentrify Here’ tag
If you lived here, you’d be gentrifying home by now Just in time for that whole “Bed-Stuy is the new Williamsburg” thing, Bed-Stuy is getting some fancy new apartments of its own, like the ones at 836...
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Party with a vengeance at Don Pedro’s Saturday Revenge party
The Artist Formerly Known as Vince rock the Saturday Revenge Party at Don Pedro. via Facebook Do you like rock and roll? How about spectacle? Getting covered in toilet paper and confetti? Me too! It’s...
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ExxonMobil is allegedly offering Mellow Pages a huge sponsorship
The kind of young, hip automobile owners the ExxonMobil corporation is maybe trying to buy off A little while back, we held a storytelling night to help out the folks at Mellow Pages, Brooklyn’s only...
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Mellow Pages turns down ExxonMobil’s sponsorship offer. Would you? [UPDATE]
Mellow Pages: Not covered in oil, but still poor. via Facebook [UPDATE: Here's the strange story of how this went down] Two days ago we told went over the story of ExxonMobil offering Bushwick’s Mellow...
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Punk rock MTA employee is the hero we deserve
Daniel Zajackowski, in a quiet moment figuring out how to make our streets safer. via Facebook Everyday New Yorkers can be heroes without a badge or running into a burning building. Take for example,...
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Exclusive: Inside the Mellow Pages/Exxon Mobil stunt
When rebranding goes wrong. Photo by David Colon The Brooklyn and internet literary scene was recently suckered (including Brokelyn) by a strange prank by a small member-supported library operating out...
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Shocking discovery by NatGeo: Crime happens in Brooklyn (if you film it)
If only someone had been there to shake the crime stick at them. Hey there foppish 20somethings of Bushwick, in your darkened bars lit only by hanging Edison bulbs: do you know what’s lurking around...
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