Housing Works shopping guide [FiPS]
Unemployment drop drop droppin [NYT]
Brooklyn’s longest happy hour [BK Daily]
3rd Ward now includes the kitchen sink [BK Paper]
Even non football fans can enjoy this Super Bowl! [Rumpus]
Crime in Bushwick? Whatever man [Daily Intel]
Movie brunch? Not inconceivable! [FreeWilliamsburg]
Ode [...]
Friday linkage
Try a photo course without getting in over your head
Free course means you won't sink your budget.
If you’re thinking of taking a photo class but unsure if you’re really up for the whole shebang, take the chance to test drive one this weekend. Brooklyn Creative is offering a free sample of its 8-week digital photography class on Saturday. From 11-1pm, you can get [...]
Census: In Brooklyn, work trumps love
Attn all the single ladies (and, uh, dudes).
Brooklyn, we work hard. TOO hard, apparently, to get sumpin’ sumpin’ on the side. The Daily News this week looked at newly released Census data that seem to indicate all of us busy ass hustlers in the borough are too focused on paying rent to [...]
The perfect Valentine’s gift for tree huggers
Not the actual tree.
Screw it, we’ll just go all out for Valentine’s Day stuff today, even though us singles think it’s about as real a holiday as the Verdukian Holiday of Mouth Pleasures: You could spend tons on an overrated restaurant, followed by weak cocktails, followed by, I [...]
Wednesday linkage
Shit Occupiers Say [Gothamist]
Bike share is coming! [WNYC]
Where to get your puppy fix [Gothamist]
Boar’s Head is a strange company [Slate]
The Brits take on Greenpoint [BBC]
Coney’s most underground bar [Animal]
Your resume vs. oblivion [WSJ]
Pizza in a jar [BoingBoing]
Craigslist freebie of the day: All the knowledge of 1957
Um, where's the search button?
Why would you need a complete set of 50-year-old encyclopedias? Because where else are you going to turn when the sum of all human knowledge GOES DARK AGAIN?! Someone in Park Slope is giving away this 24-volume, excellent condition set of Encyclopedia Britannica’s 1957 edition, with many [...]
Turn missed connections into true love
Judge a connection by its cover. Illustration by Sophie Blackall.
We’re all well acquainted with Craigslist Missed Connections, but how many of us actually check them? Or expect to see our lost mate in person again? This is especially true on the subway, where our passions can be derailed (scary pun not intended) by the [...]
This Brooklyn literary landmark guide is actually pretty sweet
Brooklyn Lit League, assemble! Can you name all these BK authors?
National magazines takes on the to-do and must-see in Brooklyn are usually overly broad guides to the borough that are usually about as helpful as reading its Wikipedia page. But this brand new guide to literary Brooklyn from CondeNast Traveler is actually packed [...]
