Police say Janina Glasov, 25, died Tuesday of a heroin overdose in her Bushwick Avenue apartment. [NY Post] Early Sunday evening, a 45-year-old man had…
Blue-Sky Thinking Guides a Push to Turn LES Park Building Into a Community Center
On the northern side of Sara D. Roosevelt Park sits a large brick structure. Once a youth center, the Stanton Building was shut down during…
During Eid, Brooklynites Break the Fast By Flocking to the People’s Playground
There are many traditions (feasting with family, open-air prayer in congregation, and, these days, having a boutique butcher sacrifice your lamb) surrounding Eid al-Fitr, the…
Four Readings: Klingon Blood Wine, Abortion Stories, and Refugee Poems
THURSDAY Ed Gross presents: The Fifty-Year Mission July 7, 7pm at Word Bookstore, at Villain LLC at 50 N 3rd Street. Trekkies, this one’s for…
Williamsburg Pool Keeps Women-Only Hours; Punk Speed Dating
Monday on Avenue B, a pedestrian suffered a leg injury in the aftermath of a two-car collision that occurred near the Houston Street corner. [EV…
Citistorage Site Owner Sets Offer Deadline as Park Pushers Plan Sleep-In
Last month, the city made a $100 million offer on the final parcel of land needed to complete the long-promised Bushwick Inlet Park along the…
Getting High at a #420Infused Rooftop Supper Club
I might paint myself as sort of a lame if I say this, but I was slightly, completely terrified of what was going to transpire…
This Week: Silly Shows Of All Sorts and An Experimental Theater BBQ
WEDNESDAY Snippets From Sparkleberry At The Annoyance, 367 Bedford Ave, Williamsburg. 8:30pm. $10. More info here. A ragtag gang of particularly zany folk come together…
UberEATS Just Expanded to Williamsburg and Greenpoint
It’s not just the Whole Foods that’s opening later this month. Williamsburg is getting UberEATS, too. And so is Greenpoint.
Find Your Beach: How to Tell Beach Slang From Beach Fossils
Now that it’s officially summer, we’re in for three-plus months of beach reads, beach bods and, of course, beach bands. After that explosion of nautically themed…