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Tis the season for changes in the Brooklyn blogosphere. While one blog looks for new leadership, another is ready to expand upward and outward into a new kind of platform.
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Tech-tonic Shifts in the North Brooklyn Blogosphere
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‘It’s Such an Intense Social Scene’: Talking Bushwick Nightz With Ms. Bushwick Daily
Bushwick Nightz on Knickerbocker Ave (Photo: Kirsten O’Regan)
When Dallas Athent, fashion and shopping editor of Bushwick Daily, approached editor-in-chief Katarina Hybenova with the idea of putting together a collection of Bushwick short stories, Hybenova didn’t hesitate. “I was totally psyched,” she recalls. “I said yes in like three seconds.” Now that dream of a couple months back has come to fruition, in the form of a slim, attractive volume entitled Bushwick Nightz. Released by Bushwick Daily and Catopolis (Athent’s publishing venture), the book promises to introduce the reader to “the famed neighborhood that everyone’s been talking about.”
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Katarina Hybenova and Gina Pollack on Girls: ‘That’s Not How You Take Off a Condom’
Welcome to Girls Talk, in which two of our favorite New Yorkers share the text messages they sent during this week’s episode of Girls.
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Gina Pollack takes a selfie.
The text in green belongs to Gina Pollack, a photographer and writer who has lived in North Brooklyn since before the dawn of Hannah Horvath. She is the news editor for Greenpointers, which means she knows way too much about toxic sludge and Polish doughnuts.
Katarina Hybenova takes a selfie.
The text in gray belongs to Katarina Hybenova, a media entrepreneur, award-winning photojournalist and founding editor of Bushwick Daily. Born and raised in Slovakia, she lived and studied in Prague and Leuven, Belgium only to find her home in the Bushwick-Ridgewood area, where she lives with her husband and three cats.
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