Joe McGinty is 6-foot-5, which means he has to hunch over to play piano at his weekly karaoke night at Manhattan Inn. Not that it’s a big deal. “I’ve always enjoyed people singing around the piano,” says the 54-year-old.
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10 Things We Learned From This 21-Year-Old Williamsburg Time Capsule
Twenty-one years ago last month, New York ran a cover story titled “The New Bohemia,” about Williamsburg’s burgeoning artist community. Today, revisiting the eight-page spread – which we’ve embedded for you below – is like opening a time capsule from a moment when the neighborhood was on the precipice of change. “In the seventies, it was SoHo. In the eighties, the East Village. In the nineties, it will be Williamsburg,” said one interviewee. Here now are 10 things we learned about the Billyburg of 1992.
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