The grand view of Grand Army Plaza. photos by Anna Jacobson
Although many chants were the same, the scene at Occupy Brooklyn yesterday was quite different than the one in Zuccotti Park. There was also free pizza at Grand Army Plaza, but one pie was sufficient for the crowd, which boasted more strollers than facial tattoos [...]
At Occupy Brooklyn: accordions, strollers, and Marty
Hottie hunting at Occupy Wall Street protest
Beyond the facially tattooed and hygiene-challenged, plenty of lookers are protesting downtown too. Here are some of the Zucotti hotties we met on Sunday afternoon.
Where the 99 percent tell their stories
Photos by Anna Jacobson.
Since facing off with the NYPD on the Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday, the Occupy Wall Street-ers have been getting their chance for the country to read their signs and hear their demands. But what are they, and who’s demanding them? In addition to the Liberty Square camp-out (which Brokelyn snapped shots [...]
Free/cheap High Holiday services in BK
If you don’t have the dough to davin, here’s our annual list of places where you can pray freely for free, whether your pleasure is reform, orthodox or some kind of New Age hybrid. This year, heaven’s gates open the evening of September 28 for Rosh Hashanah, and Yom Kippur begins sundown of October 8.
How do you survive the roommate from hell?
"Hey, Roomie, I made a chore wheel!" via RoommateRobot.com
Why is it so hard to find a good roommate? Brokespeare wrote, “Miserly living acquaints a man with strange apartment-fellows.” Yes, he’s a sexist – but in this case he’s right. Whether your roommate is an apathetic frog (whose Dad still has to PayPal you the last [...]
Earn fest tix, from Bonnaroo to Gov’s Island
Yes, you too can be a dirty festival-goer without paying out the… donkey.
I was psyched for Escape to New York, a three-day festival on Long Island, put on by Winkel and Balktick and the UK’s Secret Garden … until I saw the price. The $150 ticket is more than I have for a weekend, and even [...]
Bar of the Week: Score big at Full Circle
Throw in free-games-and-hot-dog happy hours a beer menu of more than 60 cans, and cheap margaritas and this bar becomes a worthy escape from humdrum adulthood.
Bar of the Week: Macri Park!
This is the nineteenth in our series on the venues featured in the second Brooklyn Beer Book. This week we spotlight a Beer Book newcomer, Macri Park, a gem of a bar/lounge tucked between less-chattable Barcade and Union Pool.
Macri Park, photo via NY Mag
MACRI PARK
462 Union Ave., Williamsburg
What it is: [...]
Bar of the Week: The Narrows
This is the seventeenth in our series on the venues featured in the second Brooklyn Beer Book. This week we visit a Beer Book newcomer, The Narrows. Perched in “Bushwick,” “East Williamsburg,” (or “whatever”), this long-styled drinkery is built around its copper bar, and pours out into the garden. It’s also the site [...]
Escape from NY with cheap winter flights
Whether you spent your holidays working, baking, or with aunts questioning your non-existent love life and non-paying career, you could use a vacation. Thank the getaway gods, airlines are in discount mode, trying to get butts in half-full flights. If you have a sense of adventure (read: you’re not too particular about where you go), [...]
