Bar of the Day: Brooklyn Ice House
This is the latest in our series on the venues featured in the Brokelyn Beer Book. Brooklyn Ice House in…
Category: Red Hook
The cheapest way to get home from Ikea
Ikea is practically its own sovereign Swedish colony on the banks of the Gowanus Bay. So it only makes sense…
A sale on furniture (with pronounceable names) in Red Hook
Atlantis, Red Hook's second-largest furniture retailer, will be closing the retail half of their business on Sunday, September 27. Before…
You’ll never Lack for style with this $7.99 table
Like us, our frugal friends over at the design blog Bromeliad must have gotten the Ikea flyer last week detailing…
How to plant a ‘truck farm’
From Dumpster swimming pools to a truck farm... how kooky is Brooklyn this summer? The locavore crowd is all atwitter…
In the papers: $240 off an Ikea sofa
A Brokelyn favorite hobby is scanning those wet circular bags that wind up on your stoop once a week because…
Best places to find beer-n-shot deals
You walk in a bar some nights with more gainfully-employed friends, and the first thing you do is open your…
Coupon quickie: get $20 off a new tree in NYC
Does everyone know you can get $20 from the city if you buy a new tree? As part of Bloomberg's…
Free: 90 minutes with a hot Swedish nanny
The New York Times has a story about how the Red Hook Ikea's Smaland—the playspace where parents can deposit kids…
In the papers: a deal on Levi’s, 33 cent beer and $1 torches
In this week's bag of supermarket circulars: We know a cute gay hiker type who swears by the men's department…