http://brokelyn.com Food, restaurants, shopping and cheap fun on a budget in Brooklyn NYC Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:07:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://brokelyn.com/deal-of-the-day-get-a-bike-tune-up-at-ride-brooklyn-for-half-price/ http://brokelyn.com/deal-of-the-day-get-a-bike-tune-up-at-ride-brooklyn-for-half-price/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:21:00 +0000 David Colon http://brokelyn.com/?p=44419 Read More]]>
Hey guys, need a tune-up? via Flickr user nilexuk It’s been a long, rainy winter/spring kinda thing even deep into June. Despite all that, we’re sure you’ve had a few days where you saw a temporary nice day, took your bike out and then WHOOPS. Rainstorm and all the attendant crap it kicks up from the street to your bike. Try as you might to clean it and fix it up, you’re not a professional bike mechanic. The guys and gals at Ride Brooklyn are professional bike mechanics though, and with this fantastic internet deal, you can get them to fix your bike up for half price. Saving you $35 on what’s normally a $70 tune-up, now that is a deal. You’ll get your wheels trued, your brakes adjusted and aligned, your gears all lubed up (heh) and best of all, your machine will come out looking spic and span after all… Read More]]> http://brokelyn.com/deal-of-the-day-get-a-bike-tune-up-at-ride-brooklyn-for-half-price/feed/ 0 http://brokelyn.com/dubious-craigslist-freebie-a-giant-picnic-table/ http://brokelyn.com/dubious-craigslist-freebie-a-giant-picnic-table/#comments Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:50:41 +0000 David Colon http://brokelyn.com/?p=44410 Read More]]>
Perfect for: eating, sleeping, waterboarding probably Summer is the time for eating outdoors, but why go all the way to a restaurant and pay a bunch of money for it, when you can just grill in your backyard or on your roof? Of course, maybe you have an issue about sitting on the ground. In which case, can we interest you in an eleven-foot picnic table that you’ll have to transport yourself in one piece? The writer of the Craigslist ad giving this hunk of wood away claims that the carpenter who made it told the owners that it would last their entire lives, so you probably can’t take it apart. And you presumably don’t have a truck big enough to haul it away (or a team of oxen and a covered wagon) either. Honestly, we’re left wondering who the hell this could possibly be for. But hey, if you’ve got six or… Read More]]> http://brokelyn.com/dubious-craigslist-freebie-a-giant-picnic-table/feed/ 1 http://brokelyn.com/the-hidden-cheap-electronics-warehouse-of-gowanus/ http://brokelyn.com/the-hidden-cheap-electronics-warehouse-of-gowanus/#comments Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:00:42 +0000 Tim Donnelly http://brokelyn.com/?p=43673 Read More]]>
Happy little electronics on the wall of the warehouse. Photos by Tim Donnelly. I recently found my old Nintendo 64 back in my possession after my mother finally vacated our house in New Jersey and forced me to reclaim all my old crap I stockpiled as a kid. But there were no controllers, which means my desire to eradicate my friends with green turtle shells in MarioKart was thwarted! Since this is not exactly 1999, you can’t just roll down to your neighborhood Toys R Us and pick one up. The options were: 1) buying a new, pricey but off-brand one out of one of those dicey little used game shops near Fulton Mall; or 2) buy one on Ebay for a better price of $15-25, though you never quite know how much the previous owner’s jam hands have gunked up the joystick. That’s when someone told me about the Lower East Side’s… Read More]]> http://brokelyn.com/the-hidden-cheap-electronics-warehouse-of-gowanus/feed/ 0 http://brokelyn.com/get-a-free-beer-at-running-late-just-for-being-a-brokelyn-reader/ http://brokelyn.com/get-a-free-beer-at-running-late-just-for-being-a-brokelyn-reader/#comments Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:10:03 +0000 David Colon http://brokelyn.com/?p=44295 Read More]]>
See Drew Magary talk about dad stuff, curse, at Running Late on Wednesday To us, the benefits of being a Brokelyn reader are pretty self-evident. But sometimes people like you guys so much that they’re willing to give you things just for showing up and hanging with them. Case in point: “Running Late” with Scott Rogowsky, which previously had a visit from Alex Karpovsky from Girls, will give you a free Grolsch beer when you go to this month’s show, just for telling them “Brokelyn sent me.” There is a terrible price to pay however… Wednesday night’s show, at the Galapagos Art Space (16 Main Street, DUMBO) at 8:30pm, will feature Drew Magary, doing a publicity tour for his parenting book, another Lena Dunham connection with David Call, who was in Tiny Furniture, comedian Dan Soder and genuinely vile waste of oxygen Tucker Max. So as to keep you from paying full price for an event with… Read More]]> http://brokelyn.com/get-a-free-beer-at-running-late-just-for-being-a-brokelyn-reader/feed/ 0 http://brokelyn.com/downward-price-free-yoga-series-to-take-the-pain-out-of-paying-for-yoga/ http://brokelyn.com/downward-price-free-yoga-series-to-take-the-pain-out-of-paying-for-yoga/#comments Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:59:34 +0000 David Colon http://brokelyn.com/?p=44272 Read More]]>
We can do this (we can’t do this). via Facebook Yoga. Everyone’s into it, except for lunatics who think it’s Satantic. And even if it is, eh, it’s not like a little Satanism ever hurt anyone. Besides, we all know the true evil of yoga, like the true evil of anything, is having to pay for it. But, starting Thursday, you’ll be able to get around the whole “providing legal tender in exchange for services” thing for a few days, thanks to the Luna Free Yoga Series, in which 25 studios will give away a total of 500 free class passes from June 13 – July 17. Getting yourself a free pass will be much easier than doing yoga itself. We assume, we’ve never done it. But since all you need to do is pick a studio on the website, which will have list of studios starting on June 13, it definitely… Read More]]> http://brokelyn.com/downward-price-free-yoga-series-to-take-the-pain-out-of-paying-for-yoga/feed/ 0 http://brokelyn.com/bid-on-a-bus-plate-at-the-mtas-unclaimed-used-and-excess-items-auction/ http://brokelyn.com/bid-on-a-bus-plate-at-the-mtas-unclaimed-used-and-excess-items-auction/#comments Wed, 05 Jun 2013 17:04:05 +0000 Rebecca Fishbein http://brokelyn.com/?p=44189 Read More]]>
  Aww, which busker left this little guy behind? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to own a license plate that once belonged to the B54? Yearned to use the very same plastic recorder a third grader left behind on the 2 train in 2007? Harbored a desire to use the hand sanitizer some Transportation office worker ordered nine extra bottles of? Well, now’s your chance: the MTA is auctioning off unclaimed, used and and excess items that have ended up in their offices over the years, and bidding is open NOW. You have always wanted this forklift. There are a number of enticing items up for grabs, like household goods, toys, books, cell phones and sporting goods people have left on buses and trains; used overheard projectors that ostensibly once outlined the benefits of the 1992 fare hike; cubicles, desks and deskchairs; and, weirdly, a number of forklifts.  Do you want these… Read More]]> http://brokelyn.com/bid-on-a-bus-plate-at-the-mtas-unclaimed-used-and-excess-items-auction/feed/ 1 http://brokelyn.com/delivery-week-restaurant-week-without-leaving-the-apartment-or-office/ http://brokelyn.com/delivery-week-restaurant-week-without-leaving-the-apartment-or-office/#comments Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:33:00 +0000 David Colon http://brokelyn.com/?p=44132 Read More]]>
Why leave to eat at Janelle’s when it can come to you? via Caribbean American Cuisine & Bar Miss Restaurant Week? We can’t imagine why, since they always pretend we don’t exist. But OK, we’ll grant you that a deal is a deal. But what if Restaurant Week could come to you? Would you not leave the house for two weeks? We’re about to find out, because from today until June 16, Seamless is rolling out Delivery Week, a Restaurant Week-like prix-fixe from participating restaurants that will bring the food to you. Participating restaurants are offering either a $12.50 lunch deal or $25 dinner deal of two or three courses. Of course, if you want in, make sure you go though the Delivery Week portal so that the Delivery Week option shows up on the menu.  Then just pick the prix-fixe lunch or dinner and voila, cheap food on the way to your door. While… Read More]]> http://brokelyn.com/delivery-week-restaurant-week-without-leaving-the-apartment-or-office/feed/ 0 http://brokelyn.com/groupon-of-the-year-hipster-food-tour-of-williamsburg/ http://brokelyn.com/groupon-of-the-year-hipster-food-tour-of-williamsburg/#comments Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:25:56 +0000 David Colon http://brokelyn.com/?p=44128 Read More]]>
Look at this hungry hipster. via Groupon Like we’ve said before, slap “hipster” on anything that’s otherwise normal, and baby, you’ve got a stew (of publicity) going. The people of Great New York Tours are aware of this, so lo and behold they put together a Hipster Food Tour that takes place in Williamsburg. You’re curious, aren’t you? Well now you can pretend you’re new here because a Groupon has cut the tour price in half from $50 to a more manageable $19. Where will your culinarily adventurous tour guides take you? The Groupon site only lists a couple places, but the copy on the actual website has to be read to be believed, if you like jokes about PBR and American Spirits. You’ll go to Fornino, Handome Dan’s, Mable’s (don’t forget your beer book!), Brooklyn Oenology, “Bedford Cheese,” Bagelsmith and Mast Brothers. Which honestly, for nineteen bucks actually sounds like a… Read More]]> http://brokelyn.com/groupon-of-the-year-hipster-food-tour-of-williamsburg/feed/ 2 http://brokelyn.com/businessweek-condescendingly-offers-a-free-subscription-to-millennials/ http://brokelyn.com/businessweek-condescendingly-offers-a-free-subscription-to-millennials/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 19:45:55 +0000 Rebecca Fishbein http://brokelyn.com/?p=43955 Read More]]>
With a cover like this, how could you NOT want it? (via bizweekdesign’s flickr) In case you haven’t noticed, the city is filled with a lot of rich people, many of whom are perhaps far savvier businessmen and women than we oft-unemployed Me-Me-Me Millennials. And, as oft-unemployed Me-Me-Me Millennials, we welcome their financial advice (well, maybe not these guys’ advice), encouragement and any other well-intentioned helping hand. But isn’t there a better way to help us out than with a tongue-in-cheek free subscription to Bloomberg Businessweek, complete with snarky little notes to remind us of what economic wastes we all are? In what appears to be a marketing ploy to get new readers hooked on Businessweek’s scintillating exposes on Egg McMuffins, the magazine is offering online gift cards that give the giftee 12 free print issues of Businessweek, and they’re directed towards the 22,600,000 18-24 year olds who are still “living with good… Read More]]> http://brokelyn.com/businessweek-condescendingly-offers-a-free-subscription-to-millennials/feed/ 2 http://brokelyn.com/dont-have-48-million-to-spend-on-a-basquiat-fool-your-friends-with-ebay/ http://brokelyn.com/dont-have-48-million-to-spend-on-a-basquiat-fool-your-friends-with-ebay/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 16:33:19 +0000 Katrina Casino http://brokelyn.com/?p=43801 Read More]]>
If you really appreciated art history in college but don’t have a hedge fund, you probably weren’t lucky enough to be at Christie’s record-breaking art auction last week, where the art house brought in $495 million selling contemporary art made by a bunch of frustrated, poor artists who hated commodities. But here’s a collection of look-alikes that will class up your place for way, way less, and no one will ever know you’re not Leo DiCaprio. Above, the record-breaking Dustheads by Jean-Michel Basquiat, $48.8 million. Below: your new painting by lesser known artist, $200: But wait, there’s more! You can have Jackson Pollock’s Number 19 for $58.4 million: Pollock-esque, $275:   Mark Rothko’s Untitled (Black on Maroon), $27 million:   “Tribute to Mark Rothko,” yours for…$0.01?   Willem de Kooning, Woman (Blue Eyes), $19.2 million: “Abstract Expressionist Art Woman Face Portrait Watercolor,” $45:   Roy Lichtenstein’s Woman With Flowered Hat, $56.1 million: This public service announcement, $29.99: Now all that’s left for you to do is put on your smoking jacket, sit back with that bottle… Read More]]> http://brokelyn.com/dont-have-48-million-to-spend-on-a-basquiat-fool-your-friends-with-ebay/feed/ 0