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50 Kent has free outdoor movies this summer

Obviously the Brooklyn Bridge Park movies, with their location right on the water, are great. Hell, all outdoor summer movie…

Williamsburg luxury building tenants go on luxury rent stike

It's hard out there for a renter, relying on your landlord to actually give a shit about you and your…

Tuesday lunchtime linkage

Tinder is embroiled in a pretty nasty sexual harassment suit [Buzzfeed] A body was pulled out of the East River…

You can have your product certified ‘Brooklyn Made’

Everyone wants in on the whole "slap Brooklyn on the name and everyone loves you" phenomenon, whether we're talking about…

Bushwick is getting its own community rezoning plan this summer

Hey Bushwick, were you jealous when City Council representatives asked Gowanus for input on how it should develop in the…

Help Kickstart a documentary on the 1986 Mets

We here at Brokelyn are well-known partisans of the New York Metropolitans baseball club, for a couple of reasons. One…

The Sunset Park ferry might not run past October

Sometimes we get good ferry news, like a free Red Hook ferry for the summer. Sometimes though, we get bad…

Monday lunchtime linkage

New York City real estate is the new Swiss bank account [New York Magazine] Inside a really weird piece of…

Friday lunchtime linkage

Newspapers are still doing well in NYC's immigrant neighborhoods [The Atlantic] The City Council passed the NYC municipal ID cards…

We might maybe allegedly see affordable housing at Atlantic Yards sooner than expected

Hey, remember how the Barclays Center was supposed to wind up with a bunch of apartments around it, and some…