Williamsburg
Vice expanding office into Beacon's Closet which is moving to Greenpoint
“Here’s a Williamsburg real estate story to end all Williamburg real estate stories: Hip used clothing purveyor Beacon’s Closet has been priced out of its North 11th Street storefront, where it has resided for eleven years…
Explosions in the Sky-related mural painted on Turkey's Nest Tavern, documented (video)
Notice any new art near McCarren Park recently? This press release explains:Explosions In The Sky & David Wingo‘s stirring soundtrack for David Gordon Green’s meditative new film, Prince Avalanche, was released last week…
Rough Trade NYC still happening, Amazon offices coming to Williamsburg?
Williamsburg is now fully established as a choice place to live and play and even to work. Vallywag reports: According to a source, Amazon may have settled on a location for the mammoth office space the company began seeking in February: the Williamsburg waterfront…
more dance clubs invade Williamsburg: TBA open now; megaclub Verboten coming soon
There’s another new megaclub coming to Williamsburg:Verboten (German for “forbidden”) — a popular dance party company that throws techno and house DJ events around the city — is applying for a liquor license for its soon-to-open nightclub on North 11th Street that will hold more than 700 people, company representative Jen Schiffer said at a public meeting this week…
Max Fish is moving to Williamsburg
When it opened in 1989, Max Fish was an outpost in a down-and-out neighborhood, but it became a relic in what one former customer called today’s “fratified” Lower East Side…
Williamsburg Waterfront is a Brooklyn music venue again? (no)
Williamsburg Waterfront (more by Toby Tenenbaum)
Williamsburg Waterfront aka East River State Park, was a hoppin’ but short-lived outdoor Brooklyn venue back in 2011 that was replaced by Williamsburg Park right down the street in 2012, but Williamsburg Waterfront may be making a musical comeback…
"Real Life 'Girls'" wanted for reality TV show
From Craigslist:Emmy Winning Reality TV Production Company – Seeking Real Life “Girls” (Manhattan/Brooklyn)
REALITY TV–SEEKING REAL LIFE “GIRLS”
Ever feel like life in the big frantic city is just too much…
Todd P opening 'New Music' Performance Space in Brooklyn
Todd P has been keeping busy. Among other things he has announced:AN AS-YET-TO-BE-NAMED “NEW MUSIC” PERFORMANCE SPACE + BAR IN THE BUSHWICK AREA
I have a new lease on a familiar space off the L train, with legal certificate-of-occupancy and other paperwork baked into the deal, at no cost to the space…
Videology is now a bar, cafe and screening room; Williamsburg Cinemas opening in December
I started working at Videology in Williamsburg a month or so after it opened back in December 2003. My apartment’s proximity to the store and the general fun vibe (and, yes, free rentals) kept me there since, and I worked the last night of its existence as a video store proper, one day after Hurricane Sandy hit (it was a busy weekend)…
WATCH: Hurricane Sandy video footage from Williamsburg ('From Across The East River')
Filmmaker John Mattiuzzi writes:When I set out to film my neighborhood in Williamsburg, Brooklyn the night of the hurricane, I did not anticipate the footage I was about to film…
