Marty Markowitz

photo The first Jelly NYC Pool Party of 2009 went off under blue skies at the new Williamsburg Waterfront location. A more-than-6,000-strong crowd (according to the NYT) visited East River State Park for a four-band bill of Jemina Pearl, Ponytail, Fucked Up and Mission of Burma…

Issue Project Room during a benefit w/ Moby in April (more by Toby Tenenbaum)Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz has generously granted $1,133,000 to ISSUE’s capital campaign to renovate 110 Livingston…

The theme of this summer has been rain, and though the skies opened up halfway into the 5th anniversary show of The Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival on June 20th in Empire Fulton-Ferry State Park, that didn’t stop the crowd from swaying to the classic beats and rhymes by a stable of 90s artists…

David Byrne opened the Celebrate Brooklyn 2009 Season with a free show at the Prospect Park bandshell last night (Monday, June 9th). The show continued Dave Byrne’s year-long tour of material from his collaborations with Brian Eno…

Two competing impressions of the new amphitheater planned for Asser Levy Seaside Park — one fanciful, the other nightmarish — collided head-on in Coney Island last week at a contentious and often ugly meeting of Community Board 13’s parks committee, held at the New York Aquarium’s Education Hall…

M.I.A.N.E.R.D. Diesel Post 1, Post 2, Post 3, and the end…

Brian Wilson show in Coney Island – July 17, 2008 (Rubys Host)Borough President Marty Markowitz brought home nearly $90 million worth of bacon in capital funding from the fiscal year 2009 city budget, according to Borough Hall documents…