Spacious beta testing at DBGB. (Photo: Andrew Frasz)
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Thousand Dollar Listing Guy Gets Hired By Million Dollar Listing Guy
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Citi Bike’s Getting Generous With a Slot-Happy Expansion Plan
(Photo: B+B)
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today that, starting in August (er, just in time for the end of summer), Citi Bike will be installing new docking stations for their ubiquitous, sluggish tourist-mobiles in several new zones– all over Manhattan up to 110th Street and several Brooklyn neighborhoods including, among others, Gowanus, Park Slope, and Red Hook– as well as expanding their slots in already covered areas. The announcement comes after what was Citi Bike’s “busiest year ever” in 2015, when around 100,000 annual members took more than 10 million rides.
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Curves and Hair Lift ‘Burden’ on Ancient Women at Sappho-Inspired Art Show
One of Melanie Park’s “What If Sappho” works. (Photo courtesy Mary Judge)
The sardonic #Hoffsome-approved Tumblr posts of “All Male Panel” keep us painfully aware of how underrepresented women are, well, everywhere, but especially in the world of art conferences, culture Q+As, academic panels, and business summits. (Oh wait, that’s just the entire public realm.) At least the female form will be better represented on paper starting tomorrow, with the opening of Italian Airs, the first-ever pop-up show hosted by Schema Projects, an all-art-on-paper, all-the-time gallery in Bushwick. (The exhibition will also be included in the inaugural Bushwick Hot Summer Nights.)
Brazilian Fusion (and Former Models) Up the Rockaway Beach Food Scene
Chef Carlos Varella and his wife, model Andressa Junqueira, at Beach Bistro 96. (Photo courtesy Andressa Junqueira)
I’m not on many models’ speed dial, so I was surprised when New York-based Brazilian model Andressa Junqueira called me to tell me about a new restaurant that she and her husband chef Carlos Varella just opened in Rockaway last week.
Called Beach Bistro 96, it’s taking over the space previously occupied by Anna Bow (and before that occupied by Veggie Island) to offer “Brazilian internacional fusion” fare, with dishes ranging from Brazil’s national dish feijoada (black beans with pork meat, rice, kale, orange slices and farofa), served on Wednesdays and Saturdays, to ratatouille and temaki sushi hand rolls.
Brooklyn Brewery Says Cheers to Beers and a Ginormous New Navy Yard Complex
Photo: Karissa Gall
Brooklyn Brewery today announced plans to roll out their barrel program to the Brooklyn Navy Yard in a big way. The Williamsburg-based beer operation already has a warehouse at the yard where they’re aging 2,000 barrels of wine, bourbon, rum and mezcal by way of experimental processes. But come 2018, the company will open their new “primary headquarters” to the public inside Building 77 at the center of the yard, where they plan to produce 50,000 barrels of beer annually.
John Murray Goes to Dexter-esque Lengths to Create Incredible Replicas of Body Parts
(Photo: Karissa Gall)
On a recent Sunday afternoon in a Bushwick art studio, I took my top off, changed into a paper-thin, full-body Tyvek suit, and took a seat in front of a tall, blond man twirling a pair of surgical scissors. He cut off the top of the disposable suit and then wrapped my chest with clear tape, effectively pinning my arms to my sides. “This is starting to get a little too Dexter,” he said, before covering my neck with alginate.
Someone Turned This Bushwick Homeless Camp Into a Statement About Rising Rents
“HOTEL METAL” at the west Wyckoff Avenue entrance. (Photos: Karissa Gall)
Bushwick’s newest “hotel” is getting mixed reviews on Instagram. The “HOTEL METAL” is located just steps from the Jefferson L stop– inside of it, actually. The sleeping quarters, apparently set up by homeless people, are at the east and west entrances to the station on Wyckoff Avenue, “partially furnished” with metal futons, carts, clothes and refuse.
Watch: Some Real Grassroots Activism at the Global Marijuana March
Marijuana activists marched from West 31st Street to Union Square Park on Saturday, celebrating cannabis culture and rallying for an end to criminalization. Once at the park, Global Marijuana March founder Dana Beal and former High Times associate publisher Rick Cusick took to the stage and regaled the crowd with stories of how far the movement has come. Since Beal thinks Hillary Clinton will be elected in the fall and not Bernie Sanders, whose posters made an appearance at the event, he urged attendees to make “a movement in the streets” and ensure their progress doesn’t go to pot (in a bad way).
Follow Along as We Hit the Quirkiest Corners of Gowanus With Brooklyn Spaces
If you read Brooklyn Spaces online or have a copy of Brooklyn Spaces: 50 Hubs of Culture and Creativity, published last year, you know the site’s founder, Oriana Leckert, has a lock on the quirkiest, coolest places in the borough. Now she has teamed up with veteran tour guide Jonah Levy to make some of those Brooklyn spaces more physically and financially accessible.
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