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Stepping Into The Spinnaverse
If you live in Brooklyn, chances are good you’ve heard of DJ Spinna, who has been a musical force in New York going back to at least the mid-1990s. However, if you asked a randomly selected panel of five locals why they’d heard of DJ Spinna, you might just get five very different versions of his claim(s) to fame. The…
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How to Help Artists and Businesses Impacted by The Red Hook Warehouse Fire
Last week, a five-alarm fire swept through a warehouse complex along the Red Hook waterfront. The blaze at 481 Van Brunt Street, which started late the night of Wednesday, September 17, and continued to burn well through Thursday, September 18, severely damaged five buildings, housing dozens of galleries, shops, and studios for literally hundreds of artists and business owners who…
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Macario Brings Gloriously Messy Guadalajara Specialties to Park Slope
Macario is located at 463 Fourth Avenue, at the corner of 11th Street, and is currently open on Tuesday through Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. “You have to get messy when you eat a lonche bañado,” Marshall Dean told BKMAG, and he is correct. This wonderfully saucy sandwich— a staple in Guadalajara, Mexico since the 1950s, but shockingly…
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Devastating Fire Still Burning at Historic Red Hook Artist Warehouse
Roughly 36 hours later, Firefighters are still extinguishing what remains of a massive five-alarm fire that broke out in a warehouse along the Red Hook waterfront late Wednesday night. The Van Brunt Street warehouses went up around midnight on September 17, according to CBS New York. The blaze began on the building’s third floor, where carpenters kept shops, and quickly…
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Canarsie’s TriniJam BK is Feeding The Neighborhood with Family Recipes and Terrific Caribbean Comfort Foods
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Cafe Balearica and Cafe Alula Owners Taking Over Former Pencil Factory Location
By now, you likely already know Greenpoint’s beloved Pencil Factory recently went the way of so many cherished neighborhood spaces. The bar, named after an actual pencil factory that was once across the street, ended a damn-near quarter-century run at 142 Franklin Street this summer—by any metrics, about as good a stay as you get in Greenpoint or any neighborhood…
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Iconic NYC Club Studio 54 is Reopening for Just One Night
45 years since ending its glamorous, damn-near mythical, original run, Studio 54 is coming back for one night only this week. And there’s likely no amount of booger sugar or crisp twenties that will get you through the velvet ropes. The resurrection of the NYC icon comes courtesy of Valentino Beauty, which is launching a new product line on its…
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Why The Liberty is The Best Sports Franchise in New York Right Now
On October 24th of last year, I kept my daughter home from school. We had plans in the West Village—ramen, tea service, and the Alvin Ailey exhibit at the Whitney. But first, we headed to the Canyon of Heroes in the financial district, the place New York City gathers to publicly fete its champions. I’d been a number of times…
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World’s Tallest “Passive House” Building Coming to Downtown Brooklyn
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All The (Good) Burgers at Kel’s Burger Fest
It felt a little like 1997 in Greenpoint this past Saturday, as one-time Nickelodeon star Kel Mitchell—most famously, from the “Good Burger” sketch on the show All That—hosted, what else, but a burger festival at that long and narrow BK Backyard Bar space next to Caffe Panna on Banker Street. There was lots of Good Burger-evoking orange soda (with or…
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