Last December, Charles Pastore, a real estate investor who owns property in East New York, purchased a century-old Bushwick brownstone, on the corner of Cooper…
This Artist Turns Street Scraps Into Zany Readymades That Speak to LES History
With all the buildings going up on the Lower East Side, it’s not uncommon to come across scraps of metal or other weird objects left behind at construction…
See The Sketchbook Project’s New, ‘More Intimate’ Doodler Heaven
Williamsburg fave The Sketchbook Project is riding high–they recently hit 35,000 sketchbooks (that’s a lot of doodles) and they’ve also finally re-opened their storefront, the…
Amy Sedaris Wants to Give You Some Motel-Room Art
Somehow Amy Sedaris always seems to be around when paintings have to come down off the walls. Remember the Mondrian that Jacqueline was forced to…
Dinosaur Bar-B-Que Is Summering in Coney Island, Via the Coney Art Walls
Coney Island isn’t about to let Rockaway hog all the sun, what with the new food vendors at the Riis Park Beach Bazaar and the Rockaway Beach Club.…
Hey, Look! It’s the Graffiti That Spelled Gentrification in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
In Season 2 of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Lillian the landlord becomes obsessed with gentrification– even if she only recently added it to her vocabulary. “I miss…
A Rom-Com Set During Superstorm Sandy Taps the ‘Quirky, Diverse East Village Fantasia’
If you were living downtown in 2013, you probably remember the strange suspended week of superstorm Sandy. Maybe you lined up at a pay phone, or held…
It’s Not a Bar Crawl, It’s a Bookstore Crawl — But There Are Boozy Rewards
This Saturday, get drunk on essays, novels and comics during the first-ever Brooklyn Bookstore Crawl. The event, taking place on Independent Bookstore Day, will feature no less than 26 stores,…
Lawyer Becomes Gallerist, Sets Up ‘Hometown’ in Bushwick
Years ago, Adam Yokell was sitting in the art library of London’s Victoria and Albert museum, applying for an LSAT course. Maybe it wasn’t the most…
‘Let’s Go Crazy’ at Prince Celebration in Ft. Greene Park, Brooklyn BP Says
Will it be as uplifting as the impromptu tributes across New York City or the Purple Rain Day second line in New Orleans? It remains…