Dan Pierson was in awe of Robert Leslie when he heard him playing in the Second Avenue F station for quarters. But instead of dropping a bill in the British-born performer’s guitar case and moving along, he took his card and invited him to perform at the apartment-warming party he was throwing on his Brooklyn Heights roof.
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Jimmy McMillan Couldn’t Stop the Rent From Going Even Damn Higher
(Photo: Anna Silman)
Among the usual protesters who turned up outside of the meeting at Cooper Union’s foundation building was Jimmy “The Rent Is Too Damn High” McMillan.
The mayor of Papaya King wasn’t impressed with last night’s actual-mayoral debate. “They’re talking about stop and frisk, gun control,” he told us. “I’m talking about landlord control.”
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NYC Hotels Are Hanging Up Their ‘Do Not Disturb’ Cards
Ian Schrager has a heavy heart. Closing his PUBLIC hotel until further notice was an “agonizing decision,” he wrote in an email sent out yesterday, but it had to be done to protect everybody from COVID-19. “[Closing] is against everything I personally believe in,” the hotelier wrote before acknowledging that “it is the only ethical, moral and humane thing to do.” It wasn’t the only hit the founder of Studio 54 took in recent days: An exhibit about the legendary nightclub was suspended when the Brooklyn Museum temporarily closed last week. More →
Inside DeKalb Market Hall’s New Music Venue and Cocktail Bar, Opening This Weekend
Understudy. (Photo: Liz Clayman)
Could Downtown Brooklyn be the new destination for catching live music? And not just at Barclays? Hot on the heels of the reincarnated Hank’s Saloon bringing foot-stomping jams to the space above Hill Country Food Park, the nearby DeKalb Market Hall is also adding live music to its numerous food options, by opening up a performance venue with a cocktail bar attached. DeKalb Stage opens this weekend.
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(image via The Nova Experiment / Facebook)EthnoGraphic
Thursday, January 24 at Eris Evolution, 8 pm: $11 advance, $15 doors
The average show in Brooklyn—comedy, burlesque, music, and beyond—seems to have gotten a touch more diverse in recent years, but it’s still common to walk into a venue and see predominantly white faces staring back. That’s not the case at burlesque performer Stella Nova’s EthnoGraphic, a variety show featuring exclusively performers of color. As Nova does burlesque herself, the lineup is filled with striptease and pasties, with acts from Abby Fantastic, Fox Squire, and Lady Mabuhay, as well as slam poet Omar Holman and comedian Lauren Clark. More →
How Scary Is This? 'Pumpkin Service' Is Now a Thing
(Courtesy of High Line Hotel)
If you thought it couldn’t get more ostentatious than that time the Royalton Hotel offered up the services of a “wood sommelier,” you were wrong. The High Line Hotel is now offering “pumpkin service.”
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Pretty Sweet: Williamsburg’s New Waterfront Wonderland, Domino Park
South Williamsburg’s Domino Park is finally finished and open to the public, and it is a gleaming example of what approximately $50 million can do with six acres of prime waterfront property. Funded entirely by Brooklyn mega-developers Two Trees Management, who are also responsible for the mini-city of luxury apartments springing up where the Domino Sugar Factory once stood, this undeniably lovely quarter-mile park and esplanade amounts to a fantastic amenity to all new and future residents of site. Fortunately for the rest of us, it’s one amenity that they have to share with the public.
BAM Names Artistic Director, Hedwig Producer David Binder
Brooklyn Academy of Music has named David Binder as its creative director. The Tony Award-winning theater and festival producer’s credits include Hedwig and the Angry Inch, De La Guarda, and A Raisin in the Sun, starring Sean Combs, Phylicia Rashad.
East River Floating Pool Proposal Gets a Splash of Federal Cash
Image courtesy of +POOL’s website
The floating pool project known as +POOL has received a $30,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Which is good news for anyone who has ever dreamed of riding an inflatable mechanical bull in the middle of the East River.
Julianne Moore, Kyra Sedgwick: You Can Now Press For Gun Control By Shooting a Text
Julianne Moore uses a phone booth with a direct line to the New York’s congressional representatives set up outside The Standard, High Line, making a plea for stricter gun control laws as a part of Everytown for Gun Violence’s #RejectTheNRA campaign. (Photo: Savannah Scott)
In May 2010, two men barged into a high-school graduation party on 147th Avenue and 176th Street in Springfield Gardens, Queens, and started a fight. Within minutes, 17-year-old Kendrick Ali Morrow, Jr., a popular student with a scholarship from St. John’s University for the following school year, was shot dead. The motive and murderer are still unknown.
“Even though last month would have been Kendrick’s 25th birthday, he will always be 17 to me because he did not have the chance to live the bright life that we all dreamt for him,” said Shenee Johnson, the victim’s mother. She said that her son couldn’t wait to start university and had dreams of becoming an attorney. “And I’m his voice now.”