Got market-able skills? The Brooklyn Flea/Smorgasburg is hiring!
Are you one of those people who really loves the Brooklyn Flea? Like, it's a weekend routine, can't-stay-away, fetish for old…
Craigslist freebie/possible horror scheme of the day: Paint me, maybe
via CL today: Free oil paints & canvas to artist who wants to paint me! (11223) Portrait artist!!! Free oil…
Wednesday lunchtime linkage
A different kind of bookseller [OTBKB] What's the pissiest borough? [Gothamist] BK Heights shared the DNC stage [BK Heights Blog]…
Michelle Obama: ‘We were so young, so in love, and so in debt’
Michelle Obama pounded a beer can of democracy and crushed it against her head at last night's DNC with a message…
Free taxi rides this week, via your spacephone
An app called Uber is hoping to let you digitally hail and pay for taxis with your smartphone, which could…
Apt. hunt: Park Slope steal, beachfront 2BR for under $2K
• Here's a sweet five-rooom floor-through that seems surprisingly affordable at $2,150 given its size, proximity to the park, and…
Prepare for doom with Contagion, and 9 other free things to do this week
1. The Society for the Advancement of Social Studies will teach you about famous firsts. Not included: a lecture on…
Occupy the calendar: The top 10 ways to extend summer
Labor Day marks the unofficial end of summer, the thought of which already has us crying into our pumpkin ales.…
So how you livin’ compared to four years ago?
Are you better off now than four years ago? Well, are you? It's a dubious framework for a question, especially…
Tuesday lunchtime linkage
A brewery grows in Carroll Gardens [Patch] Take that, suckers in the rest of the country not paying as much…