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Tuesday lunchtime linkage

You won't be keeping Pat Kiernan up on Bedford [NYT] Aw, shucks [L Magazine] What you'd want to go there…

Tim Donnelly

RIP Maurice Sendak, son of Depression-era Bensonhurst

Remembering the beloved children's book writer and illustrator, whose creative vision was shaped by his hard Bensonhurst childhood.

Faye

Got $300,000 and love breastfeeding? Open a Tea Lounge!

Brooklynites of even a few years' vintage will remember the halcyon days of the Tea Lounge empire, when as many…

Tim Donnelly

NYTimes digital subscribers: If you get the paper too, you actually pay less

You might think you're saving money by not subscribing to the dead-tree edition, but you're very wrong.

Conal Darcy

Behold: a new $85 Brooklyn t-shirt, via Paris

Mais non! The two French designers who call themselves "Brooklyn We Go Hard" have designed an $85 Brooklyn t-shirt.

Faye

Terrifying graph shows growing popularity of Brooklyn as a baby name

From BabyCenter.com: According to the BabyCenter population, it may have peaked. But when will Quogue or Gowanus catch on?  

Faye

When the Beastie Boys were on a boat and almost on Chappelle’s Show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcW_uze0s40&feature=youtu.be [UPDATE: VIACOM IS A JERK] Well, this is amazing. Like every breathing person in Brooklyn, we spent the weekend…

Tim Donnelly

Would you pay $20 admission to shop a Gilt Groupe sale?

Gilt Groupe is having an NYC warehouse sale, from May 18 - 20, but you have to pay $10 to…

Faye

It’s Great GoogaMooga scavenger hunt day: spot this ride, win some tix

In case you've had enough of the buzz machine for this thing yet, the organizers of the Great GoogaMooga are…

Rachel DeLetto

Monday lunchtime linkage

Eat, art, local [NY1] Chuck comes to the beer rescue [Gothamist] Barclay's broken promises, two-tired edition [StreetsBlog] But Babs is…

Tim Donnelly