Help out the Narrows Botanical Garden, be a greeter on weekends!
Like green space in Brooklyn but don't quite have it in you to create your own community garden? Makes sense,…
Category: News
Monday lunchtime linkage
Eliot Spitzer is back, baby! [New York Times] It's expensive to live in NYC. Ya don't say! [Daily News] Let's…
Brooklyn Brewery wants to send a songwriter to Sweden again
How do you say "Coney Island" in Swedish? Um, according to Google Translate, "Coney Island." Feel free to correct us…
Want Tig Notaro to do comedy on your roof? Well, ask her
Got a roof or a yard or some kind of patch of land, and want to hold a performance on…
Couple pays $1 million for Bed-Stuy’s ‘LES-like grit’
"A Manhattan couple paid more than $1 million — a first — for an apartment in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant because the…
Wednesday lunchtime links
Don't worry, the Astrotower won't fall down [Amusing the Zillion] You can get a good bone in Clinton Hill [New…
Fight fracking and go to a movie party via MoveOn.org
If you signed up for a free Obama button back in 2008, you might have since been inundated with emails…
Love at first bite: Brooklyn gets 18 spots on NYMag’s Cheap Eats list
This year foodies learned what those of us with decidedly thin pockets have always known: less is more. Although this…
Tuesday lunchtime linkage
SLA inspectors getting drunk on our dime [Daily News] Artists worried about losing Bloomberg's fun money [New York Times] Even…
Some blessing: it’s ludicrously expensive to be pregnant
As if the future weren't terrifying enough for us low-earners in this country, today the New York Times reminded readers…