Justine Carroll, who has been publishing The Greenpointers for four years, moving to a new neighborhood and she’s looking for someone to adopt the hyperlocal news and events chronicle she created.
Only in the Slope: store offers lesbians 10 percent off
A Park Slope maternity boutique offers a special discount just for lesbians.
LAST DAY! The best of the Great BK Thaw
The snow is gone, at least for a few days, and two months’ of trash-bag spillage is emerging from its wintry slumber. What unsightly or perhaps even beautiful horrors hath the Great Thaw of 2011 wrought on your block?
For retailers, there’s gold in them thar Etsy
Framed 22 x 50" subway art from Restoration Hardware, $495.
We’d heard that big retailers troll Etsy for crafsy-looking merch and now we know why: they can charge gigantaur mark-ups on the work the actual artists sell for a lot less on the handmade/vintage goods site.
In the new Restoration Hardware catalog, the framed vintage subway maps [...]
Would you give Carrot Girl $1 to move to Brooklyn?
Laura Zamora wants to be your neighbor.
This is Laura Zamora, an art-school grad, printmaker and apparent crudité enthusiast who has been trying since last summer to scrape together $2,500 to hightail it out of her dad’s house in Montgomery, AL. Where does this self-described purveyor of “mediocre” art want to [...]
Wednesday: be in a maybe viral music video
We’re big fans of Mr. Ben Lerman — crazy-talented ukulelist, comedian, Kensington resident and friend of Brokelyn in myriad ways. Now the recent NYMag approval matrix sensation is recording a new video — and you’re invited. Lerman is looking for volunteer “fashionistas” (people who would look at home in the audience of [...]
Brokelyn readers also have great literary taste
Score! Brooke Bellott from Boerum Hill took home titles by Don Delillo, Haruki Murakami and Orhan Pamuk.
They came, they swapped, they drank beer — and they discussed the difference between African and Latin American magical realism. Sunday afternoon’s Great Brokelyn Book Swap turned out to be a whole lot of brainy, rainy-day fun, and lucrative, [...]
Why not to pay for passport rush services
If for some reason you find yourself needing a passport renewal in, say, a week’s time, do not turn to costly expediters for help–you can save the money and get your passport yourself in an equally short time.
Thomas Keller’s surprising money-saving cooking tip
Bouchon Bakery sliders. Photo courtesy of the slashfood blog.
Brooklyn foodies are praying Thomas Keller is serious about opening a Bouchon Brooklyn, which reminds me of a cooking tip from the famed chef that you don’t need to be a swell to try. Maybe it is a little hard to believe that the man [...]
Our man Tim Donnelly is Broke-Ass of the week!
Tim yelling at an unsuspecting sandwich.
Maybe you’ve read his posts on cheap beer, hauling your crap home from Ikea, or where to find last-minute tax advice. In the nearly 11 months since Brokelyn threw open its doors, contributing editor Tim Donnelly has been enlivening our web mag [...]
