Enter GIPHY’s Halloween GIF contest with your spookiest looping creations
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Enter GIPHY’s Halloween GIF contest with your spookiest looping creations

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If watching scary movies on the big screen isn’t enough to get you your Halloween fix, then consider making your own: In partnership […]

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‘Homeless comedy’ turns your living room into a comedy club
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‘Homeless comedy’ turns your living room into a comedy club

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For the single New Yorker, comedy shows are one of the best excuses to get out of the house. There are always free or […]

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Measured drinking: Sign up now to take low-cost drunk music lessons in Brooklyn
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Measured drinking: Sign up now to take low-cost drunk music lessons in Brooklyn

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Drinking and music have always been a winning pair. Just think of how good everyone sounds at karaoke after a few rounds, or how the […]

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Take shelter: 11 of the best DIY beach forts at Fort Tilden
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Take shelter: 11 of the best DIY beach forts at Fort Tilden

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A beach day is made infinitely better with the addition of shade. If you don’t own an umbrella, or you don’t feel […]

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Tune up with tunes: 4 ways to attach a speaker to your bike this summer
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Tune up with tunes: 4 ways to attach a speaker to your bike this summer

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Ever have something that should be played at high volume, preferably in a residential area? Not that we here at Brokelyn would […]

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Home fernishings: How to turn your apartment into an oasis of greenery, and keep it alive
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Home fernishings: How to turn your apartment into an oasis of greenery, and keep it alive

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Know why there’s no such thing as a “lamppost hugger?” Because the urban jungle isn’t something you want to embrace and nurture the […]

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‘One for the road:’ The etiquette of stealing a road beer as you leave a party
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‘One for the road:’ The etiquette of stealing a road beer as you leave a party

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Well, you’re at a house party. You’re squished somewhere between a gas stove you keep igniting with your hip and a guy […]

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Brooklyn has spoken: Fermenting everything is the new pickling
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Brooklyn has spoken: Fermenting everything is the new pickling

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This weekend I went to a fermentation party in Clinton Hill. No, I’m not sorry. Despite its reputation as a yuppie/yuccies-only trend, fermentation is actually a widespread […]

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Dropping my phone into a toilet was a great reality check, you should try it once
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Dropping my phone into a toilet was a great reality check, you should try it once

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On Tuesday, I was at Littlefield bar. Don’t ask me what I was doing there, because the answer definitely isn’t “competing in […]

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New app lets you turn a profit on that crazy cooking talent
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New app lets you turn a profit on that crazy cooking talent

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Ever since we clawed our way out of the recession (*cough* bailouts *cough*), cooking has seemed like nothing more to the average New Yorker than an occasional opportunity […]

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