http://brokelyn.com Food, restaurants, shopping and cheap fun on a budget in Brooklyn NYC Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:28:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://brokelyn.com/cell-f-help-bk-parks-getting-solar-powered-phone-chargers/ http://brokelyn.com/cell-f-help-bk-parks-getting-solar-powered-phone-chargers/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:06:13 +0000 David Colon http://brokelyn.com/?p=44435 Read More]]>
Nice view. via New York Observer We’ve all presumably been there: you’re supposed to meet friends somewhere that doesn’t have outlets, and your phone battery is making its final stand. Then it dies and you and your friend spend the next 40 minutes trying to find each other. There’s got to be a better way! AT&T is trying to make sure there is now, with a series of free solar-powered phone charging stations in few New York parks, including four Brooklyn parks, according to the Observer. The best part about these phone chargers? Well, aside from the fact that they’ll be free to use. It’s that they don’t just work on iPhones, they work on spacephones of all stripes. So now you don’t need to be completely neurotic about having your cellphone charged to full before leaving the apartment, like some of us who own [BRAND REDACTED] phones. You can find them… Read More]]> http://brokelyn.com/cell-f-help-bk-parks-getting-solar-powered-phone-chargers/feed/ 0 http://brokelyn.com/see-the-wonders-of-brooklyns-food-industry-at-bk-eats-next-week/ http://brokelyn.com/see-the-wonders-of-brooklyns-food-industry-at-bk-eats-next-week/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:07:38 +0000 David Colon http://brokelyn.com/?p=44430 Read More]]>
Jacques Torres will be there to talk chocolate Brooklyn’s food industry is red hot. Like, Guatemalan insanity pepper hot. So what better time than now to feature the thriving restauranteurs and food scene-makers in a trade show devoted entirely to food? Lucky for us, we get just that next Wednesday with Brooklyn Eats, going down at the Pfizer Building on Flushing Avenue. If you’re at all interested in Brooklyn’s food industry, this is going to be the place to be. If you’re looking to break in to the industry, or are just starting out, you can get some money-saving tips on energy efficiency in running your kitchen from National Grid, and can hobnob with the folks that run Edible Brooklyn. Plus Jacques Torres will be on hand to talk about the awesome opportunities available at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, when he discusses his new chocolate operation there. On the other hand, if you just like… Read More]]> http://brokelyn.com/see-the-wonders-of-brooklyns-food-industry-at-bk-eats-next-week/feed/ 0 http://brokelyn.com/tuesday-lunchtime-linkage-55/ http://brokelyn.com/tuesday-lunchtime-linkage-55/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:00:08 +0000 David Colon http://brokelyn.com/?p=44424 Read More]]> Read More]]> http://brokelyn.com/tuesday-lunchtime-linkage-55/feed/ 0 http://brokelyn.com/rockabus-too-expensive-try-the-nyc-beach-bus/ http://brokelyn.com/rockabus-too-expensive-try-the-nyc-beach-bus/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:59:05 +0000 Rebecca Fishbein http://brokelyn.com/?p=44406 Read More]]>
Get on the bus. via nycbeachbus Instagram Fort Tilden might be out of commission for the rest of the summer, but that doesn’t mean the Rockaways are totally off-limits this season. Jacob Riis and Rockaway Beach will be open for business, and the Rockabus is already shuttling people back and forth from Williamsburg, Grand Army Plaza and the Lower East Side. But it looks like the hipster highway shuttle’s gonna have more competition than the A train this summer, because there’s another Rockaway bus in town, and it’s cheaper. Dubbed NYC Beach Bus, this baby runs from Park Slope (what they call the Downtown stop) and Williamsburg to Jacob Riis on Saturdays, Sundays and all holidays starting July 4 and ending Labor Day. And while a Rockabus round trip ticket will set you back $15, the NYC Beach Bus is only $12. Bring on the healthy competition, y’all (though both buses boast $10 one-way… Read More]]> http://brokelyn.com/rockabus-too-expensive-try-the-nyc-beach-bus/feed/ 0 http://brokelyn.com/drumming-hard-andrew-wk-playing-the-drums-for-24-hours-in-times-square/ http://brokelyn.com/drumming-hard-andrew-wk-playing-the-drums-for-24-hours-in-times-square/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:24:00 +0000 David Colon http://brokelyn.com/?p=44418 Read More]]>
It’s time to drum! Like we’ve said before, we’re huge fans of Andrew WK, even if our coverage of him has usually been skeptical. But, he loves to party, we love to party, our interests pretty much fall in line. And his newest stunt, sitting outside in Times Square and drumming for a full 24 hours starting tomorrow, is something we can definitely get behind. As part of the O Music Awards, which celebrate digital music apparently, Andrew WK is going to post up at the Oakley store (Broadway and 44th Street) at 7pm tomorrow in the heart of New York City, Times Square, and play the drums for 24 consecutive hours. Ostensibly he’ll be doing it so to promote his candidacy for “Must Follow Artist on Twitter,” but as with most things Andrew WK-related, who the hell really knows why he’s doing it, short of the fact that it sounds like… Read More]]> http://brokelyn.com/drumming-hard-andrew-wk-playing-the-drums-for-24-hours-in-times-square/feed/ 0 http://brokelyn.com/woo-brooklyns-number-one-at-death-by-automobile/ http://brokelyn.com/woo-brooklyns-number-one-at-death-by-automobile/#comments Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:04:36 +0000 David Colon http://brokelyn.com/?p=44415 Read More]]>
Juuuust like that. via Flickr user ronbrinkmann We’ve gone over the fact that Brooklyn is maybe not the safest place in the world when it comes to cars. But hey, that was just anecdotal. Where’s the actual proof that you risk your life every time you step off the sidewalk or even get in a car around here? How about a study by Transportation Alternatives that found that Brooklyn had the most deaths by cars, 79, in New York City in all of 2011? The Post shares the grim news of our home borough beating out Queens by 12 traffic deaths to go along with 23,000 traffic injuries in 2011. For the most part, the cause seems to be speeding and a lack of enforcement around it, since according to TA’s study, 88 percent of the drivers in Brooklyn break the speed limit, but the NYPD only gave out 2,028 speeding tickets. Almost… Read More]]> http://brokelyn.com/woo-brooklyns-number-one-at-death-by-automobile/feed/ 1 http://brokelyn.com/free-concert-alert-make-music-ny-hits-brooklyn-on-friday/ http://brokelyn.com/free-concert-alert-make-music-ny-hits-brooklyn-on-friday/#comments Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:43:00 +0000 Rebecca Fishbein http://brokelyn.com/?p=44398 Read More]]>
MMNY 2010 (via Facebook) The Williamsburg Waterfront’s free concerts might be a washout this summer, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t more free music to be had on the streets of Brooklyn. This Friday marks the return of Make Music New York, a day packed with over 1,000 gratis musical performances from fabulous musicians all over the city. And, naturally, Brooklyn’s not being left out in the cold this year; our fair borough’s getting a good dose of the shows. Here are some highlights, organized by ‘hood. BED-STUY: Blues singer-songwriter Kira Lyra will be performing some soul and jazz hits from 4pm to 5pm at 1114 Fulton Street. At 7pm, hip-hop and R&B group H.O.M.E. TEAM will be laying down beats at 376 Tompkins Ave. BROOKLYN HEIGHTS: For fans of acoustic country and bluegrass, Chicken Barn Heroes will perform at 155 Montague Street from noon to 1pm. BUSHWICK: Silent Barn’s crew will team up with… Read More]]> http://brokelyn.com/free-concert-alert-make-music-ny-hits-brooklyn-on-friday/feed/ 1 http://brokelyn.com/monday-lunchtime-links-3/ http://brokelyn.com/monday-lunchtime-links-3/#comments Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:00:15 +0000 David Colon http://brokelyn.com/?p=44399 Read More]]> Read More]]> http://brokelyn.com/monday-lunchtime-links-3/feed/ 0 http://brokelyn.com/nyc-recycling-program-growing-to-include-compost/ http://brokelyn.com/nyc-recycling-program-growing-to-include-compost/#comments Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:08:12 +0000 David Colon http://brokelyn.com/?p=44395 Read More]]>
Coming soon to your basement. via Flickr user katesheets Despite the fact that the Earth doesn’t seem to give a damn, the city’s position towards recycling has been expansionist towards recycling under Mike Bloomberg. We mean, it couldn’t hurt. Fresh off of expanding plastic recycling to cover any kind of plastic, the city is jumping into the composting game. And while it probably won’t rise to the level of squicking people out the way using human waste for fertilizer in Prospect Park would, the will probably cause wrinkled noses. But hey, it’ll save money! The Times reports that the city’s composting program, aimed ultimately at using food scraps for biogas, is going to be rolling out a voluntary compost program in residential neighborhoods in the coming year, before eventually expanding the program to the entire city by 2015 or 2016. Aside from being environmentally friendly, advocates for the plan say that it will… Read More]]> http://brokelyn.com/nyc-recycling-program-growing-to-include-compost/feed/ 0 http://brokelyn.com/the-david-byrne-bike-racks-at-bam-just-got-an-upgrade/ http://brokelyn.com/the-david-byrne-bike-racks-at-bam-just-got-an-upgrade/#comments Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:00:43 +0000 Tim Donnelly http://brokelyn.com/?p=44387 Read More]]>
Mo vinyl, mo parking. Remember a year ago when you used to look at boring old bike racks around town and think to yourself: “man, I wish these said something.” Then last August, beloved Brooklynite and head that talks David Byrne came along and waved his magic wand of whimsy in front of BAM and poof! these bike racks appeared spelling out words, and everyone loved them, because it confirmed that BAM is pretty cool in general. Last week, the words got rotated out for the first time, thanks to this contest. Originally, they said “micro lip” and “pink crown;” now they spell out “mo vinyl” and “wry romp.” It’s just the first of planned word changes into the future. Portland has had a year to commission some Brian Eno racks but still none are in sight, so I think we’re winning, Brooklyn. That top one is to the right if you’re facing BAM.… Read More]]> http://brokelyn.com/the-david-byrne-bike-racks-at-bam-just-got-an-upgrade/feed/ 0