New at city beaches: solar-powered cell phone chargers!
Going to the beach is awesome, but if there's any downside (and it's really barely a downside), it's that there's…
Help out the Narrows Botanical Garden, be a greeter on weekends!
Like green space in Brooklyn but don't quite have it in you to create your own community garden? Makes sense,…
Monday lunchtime linkage
Eliot Spitzer is back, baby! [New York Times] It's expensive to live in NYC. Ya don't say! [Daily News] Let's…
Brooklyn Brewery wants to send a songwriter to Sweden again
How do you say "Coney Island" in Swedish? Um, according to Google Translate, "Coney Island." Feel free to correct us…
Take a day off and 14 other free ways to spend the week
1. Graywolf Poetry has sent three poets on the road to read in three cities in three days, so show…
9 cheap things to do with your parents when they visit Brooklyn
‘Tis the season for jorts, drunkenly re-installing a window unit (advice: no) and — eep — parent visits. Assuming your…
Say anything and 13 other ways to keep independence weekend going
1. Out of 25,000 photographs he took between 2005 and 2010, photographer Robert Madruga is displaying only 25 for an…
Want Tig Notaro to do comedy on your roof? Well, ask her
Got a roof or a yard or some kind of patch of land, and want to hold a performance on…
Food trucks coming back to Barclays, this time with music
We previously told you about the plans to have food trucks hang out in front of the LIBOR Barclays Center…
Couple pays $1 million for Bed-Stuy’s ‘LES-like grit’
"A Manhattan couple paid more than $1 million — a first — for an apartment in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant because the…