Sam Corbin

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Writer and performer based in Brooklyn. Made in Canada.

Meet Tyler Fischer, Brooklyn’s real world version of ‘Nathan for You’
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Meet Tyler Fischer, Brooklyn’s real world version of ‘Nathan for You’

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Tyler Fischer is a troublemaker. You might recognize this New Haven native from his subway sign parodies, or the recently-gone-viral “hidden camera” video in which Fischer […]

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Crisis in laptop nation: Why Brooklyn coffee shops are limiting the wifi you use
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Crisis in laptop nation: Why Brooklyn coffee shops are limiting the wifi you use

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Last year, Brokelyn told you how not to be a dick when camping out in a coffee shop. This year though, you might be finding […]

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Hey, how’d you invent that cool job? Charlie Adams of the Urban Choir Project
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Hey, how’d you invent that cool job? Charlie Adams of the Urban Choir Project

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Charlie Adams couldn’t get a job to save her life. Over coffee, the 30-year-old choir director and founder of the Urban Choir Project recalled how, […]

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Out with the old, in with the older: Beacon’s Closet is having a rare, huge end-of-season sale!
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Out with the old, in with the older: Beacon’s Closet is having a rare, huge end-of-season sale!

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Thrift store shopping in Brooklyn is basically real-store shopping anywhere else, and the O.G. “thrift” ripoff has always been Beacon’s Closet, a store […]

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Chick-i-pedia revolution: Help smash the patriarchy during a Wikipedia edit-a-thon
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Chick-i-pedia revolution: Help smash the patriarchy during a Wikipedia edit-a-thon

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The modern feminist’s greatest frenemy is the internet. Despite a wealth of feminist content and support — not to mention Google’s policies designed to bury hate […]

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6 Brooklyn-borne illnesses that should scare you more than the Zika virus
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6 Brooklyn-borne illnesses that should scare you more than the Zika virus

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Over the past decade, we’ve had a number of national disease scares become public enemy No. 1 in New York City — […]

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Apply now! Nearly 300 affordable apartments are coming to Fort Greene
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Apply now! Nearly 300 affordable apartments are coming to Fort Greene

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If you’ve wandered around Fort Greene any time over the last year, then you’ve seen the eyesore of a building that’s been under construction […]

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The real reasons you pay those service fees on every ticket
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The real reasons you pay those service fees on every ticket

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It’s inescapable: no matter where you’re buying your tickets online, the face value you’re shown at first is never the amount you end up paying […]

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Someone is trying to sell Martin Shkreli an empty Diet Pepsi can for $25 million
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Someone is trying to sell Martin Shkreli an empty Diet Pepsi can for $25 million

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It’s hard to determine what could revive interest in pharma-bore Martin Shkreli as of late. Between his performance at Congress, his late-night Tyra Mail habit, his […]

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Love to love (love), baby: The Greenpointers annual Valentine’s day market is this weekend!
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Love to love (love), baby: The Greenpointers annual Valentine’s day market is this weekend!

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Well hey, would you look at that? It’s February, and we’re not crying! Well, maybe you are. But thanks to unseasonably warm weather, an […]

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