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Deals take flight: Alabama’s huge unclaimed luggage secondhand store

Air travel, despite being a miracle, is up there as a terrible way to get around. What's worse than air…

Sunday Reads

On Bindings: "Why is there still a Strand Book Store?" [Vulture] On Sheens: "My lungs would throb. ... I’d break…

Spike Hill is closing now too, because why not?

Hey, you done being sad about Death By Audio and Glasslands closing? Oh and 285 Kent too? Cool, because now…

Help our friends at Bushwick Daily remake local news with Village

If you read Brokelyn, you might also be a reader of Bushwick Daily. It's OK, we're pals, we don't consider…

Tuesday lunchtime linkage

Someone's landlord allegedly booted him to turn the room in an AirBnB [DailyDot] Brooklyn is a DNC finalist [POLITICO] Will…

NYC’s free Wi-fi will mostly be good for Manhattan

Hey, were you briefly excited about the city's LinkNYC plan to turn our payphones into free Wi-fi hotspots, before stopping…

Monday lunchtime linkage

Scenes of the end of Death By Audio [Free Williamsburg] Rudy Giuliani shows us that racial sensitivity he's known for…

Building replacing Williamsburg White Castle will have 20 percent affordable apartments

As we all know, Williamsburg lost a landmark fast-food operation this past year, as the White Castle on Metropolitan Avenue…

Sunday Reads

On the Surface: "Why do it?" [Cafe] On Elected Officials: "Bitch set me up!" [FT] On Warbucks: "Life was now…

The Week in Broketown, 11/17 – 11/21

Like us in website form? Then you’ll love us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest - We wondered if keeping tourists off the Brooklyn Bridge…