Skate or die! Brooklyn Bridge Park’s new roller rink is open!
With summer in full swing Brooklyn Bridge Park is offering yet another engaging activity to the laundry list of things…
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Shall I compare free to a summer’s day? BK’s free outdoor plays
Thou maketh your home in Brooklyn, maketh your heart’s hunger a quenchable goal of satiable cultural lust. You live in…
Thursday lunchtime linkage
Here's some innocent people the government has been spying on [The Intercept] Imagen 10 locations where Seinfeld filmed before it…
U.S. Open serving up jobs at job fair today
Everyone's all agog over the World Cup, but there are still other sports that are going on right here in…
Hey, Greenlight Bookstore has a podcast now, The Greenlight Bookstore Radio Hour
People love books, or at least they like to tell you they do at parties. People also love podcasts, they…
Find your friend a date, 19 other things to do this weekend
1. See some twisted romantic shorts with Rooftop Films, because what romance isn't sloppy and dysfunctional? (Friday) 2. The Great American…
Want a Lyft? Rideshare service debuting in Brooklyn with two weeks of free rides
[Update II, 7/25: Lyft has come to terms with the city and will be launching tonight. Per Twitter, free rides…
When Crumbs closed and I was suddenly unemployed
As a budding journalist/writer these posts aren't all that pays the bills, if at all. Like so many freelancers, I…
WaPo columnist Courtland Milloy suggests D.C. drivers run over D.C. cyclists
Here in New York City, we of course have our disagreements about the use of bikes and how they fit…
Wednesday lunchtime linkage
East New York getting city-sponsored gentrification. Er, redevelopment [Crain's] Sheepshead Bay is getting a big 'ol (private) development too [Sheepshead Bites]…