Brokelyn

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Jonathan Berk — Managing editor
Website. Twitter. Email: jonathan@brokelyn.com

From: Brokelyn, NY
Cheap BK activity: Running down the hill in Prospect Park (running up the hill is a close second).
When not Brokelyning, I… work on CityPragmatist.com, play the viola much less than I used to.
Cheapest secret, one splurge: Cook. Splurge: Occasionally, buy fancy ingredients to cook with.

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Tim Donnelly — Contributing editor
Website. Twitter. Email: tim@timdonnelly.com

From: Beachwood, N.J. Please don’t call it the Jersey Shore.
Cheap BK Activity: The Rev. Vince Anderson’s weekly free show at Union Pool; terrifying levels of Simpler Times consumption.
When not Brokelyning, I… Write freelance stories for anyone who will have me; lounge about coffee shops; burn calories working at Trader Joe’s and replace them with vegetable-based sustenance.
Cheapest secret, one splurge: I graduated college six years ago. Turns out, my college ID doesn’t have an expiration date, and therefore neither does my student discount eligibility. I’m not cheap about: buying a beer for friends in need, because I’ve been there before, and will be there again.

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Anna Jacobson — Staff writer
Website. Email: anna@jacobson.net

From: raised in Duluth, Georgia
Cheap BK activity: subway tour
When not Brokelyning, I… belly/fire dance, write and sing with my band (Helixentric), edit videos.
Cheapest secret, one splurge: How to travel for less than staying in one place. Splurges: garbage bags, eye makeup, Metrocards.

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Beverly Bryan
Website. Email: beverlylynnbryan@gmail.com

From: Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but I have become an interstate woman of mystery.
Cheap BK activity: Rifling through the racks at the Salvation Army thrift store on Bedford Ave.
When not Brokelyning, I… write about music for magazines like Venus Zine and Stomp and Stammer and looking for a job in order to support my music writing habit.
Cheapest secret, one splurge: Being a recluse, because when I go out I tend to splurge on microbrews.

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Lauren Cannon
Twitter. Email: lauren@sideventuresome.com

From: Atlanta in the beginning. New Orleans in the middle. I’m here now and hope I won’t meet my end any time soon.
Cheap BK activity: Walking aimlessly through Brooklyn while drinking sweet tea from Roots Cafe and finding random stores, restaurants, and people along the way.
When not Brokelyning, I… deconstruct the education system on SideVenturesome.com and haunt the burgeoning NYC social media blogging/tech scene.
Cheapest secret, one splurge: Ask restaurants and stores for complimentary goodies via their Twitter feeds. It’s worked for me on more than one occasion. Splurge: Custom made items in various shades of purple. I rule, thus, I dress accordingly.

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Conal Darcy
Website. Twitter. Email: cdarcy@conaldarcy.com

From: Mostly from Annapolis, Maryland, with a few stopovers in Germany.
Cheap BK activity: Going to the Brooklyn library’s main branch, even if it only means people watching.
When not Brokelyning, I… work at Brooklyn’s Trader Joe’s, argue semantics, and bike and ski when money permits.

Cheapest secret, one splurge: Drinking the cheapest beer I can get here in New York (despite having lived in Germany for years and becoming accustomed to some of the best beer on earth). Splurge: I cannot say no to buying a good book.

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Trevor Dye
Email: dye.trevor@gmail.com

From: The immensely under appreciated state of West Virginia.
Cheap BK activity: Summer afternoons listening to music at McCaren Park pool… so long to the best music venue in the city.  Remember, no diving allowed.
When not Brokelyning, I… Spend my time reminding people to breath… as a yoga teacher. And self-propel myself all over the city on my hobbyhorse.
Cheapest secret: Give it a good wash and I’ll wear hand me down anything.  Splurge:  I’m a minimalist, so if I can be cheap, I am. But maybe my laptop.

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Jennifer Holder
Website. Twitter. Email: holder.jennifer@gmail.com

From: The only Ten-I-See
Cheap BK activity: Get togethers at my friends’ apts are always cheap… and fun! And I love going to the Brooklyn Museum’s First Saturdays.
When not Brokelyning, I… am making terrible puns, dancing, watching friend’s comedy shows and planning things—adventures, parties… anything really.
Cheapest secret, one splurge: I haven’t cut my hair in months. It saves a lot of money. I have two splurges: eating and traveling. I looooooove the food that BK has to offer. It’s the best of the best! And I spontaneously travel (last year was Malaga, Paris and London; this year—a West Coast road trip), but even while splurging I make sure to ONLY go where I know someone I can stay with.

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Beth Hoyt
Website. Email: eahoyt@gmail.com

From: Wisconsin, which is a state one cannot escape without brokelyn-type skills.
Cheap BK activity: Never going to a movie without a pop in her purse.
When not Brokelyning, I… host a bi-weekly open mic/storytelling event on Wednesdays called the Nutsackett at The Sackett. And I make cards that are cute and ballsy on Etsy.
Cheapest secret: The $8 lunch box at Hibino, BYOB and amazing pizza at Lucali, and matinees at Cobble Hill Cinemas ($6.50) are her bangs-for-a-buck. Don’t forget your soda. Splurge: My guilty pleasure is talking myself into taking cabs.

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Nina Koske
Twitter. Facebook. Email: ninaseekay@hotmail.com

From: That Lonestar State, YA’LL.
Cheap BK activity: Hanging out at her apartment with my friends, because it is freeeee.
When not Brokelyning, I… spend my days working in retail, wishing I didn’t. And I cross-stitch.
Cheapest secret, one splurge: Cut your on hair and trim your own bangs. Splurge: I’m not cheap about my facial moisturizer—say what you will about generic brands, there is just something about a $25 bottle that the $5 bottle doesn’t do for my skin.

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Etan Marciano
Email: etanmarciano@gmail.com

From: Brokelyn, NY
Cheap BK activity: Walking them city blocks.
When not Brokelyning, I… dream big dreams.

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Rocky Mills
Email: thisisrockymills@gmail.com

From: Colorful Colorado
Cheap BK activity: Walking over Williamsburg Bridge, which serves several purposes and costs nothing: exercise, commute to city, time to think and zone out on ipod, check out the water and skyline and remind me how much I love this city!
When not Brokelying, I… Scavenge curb sides, write for www.ploked.com, www.brightkite.com, and cuddle with my dog, Yo Adrianne.
Cheapest secret, one splurge: Sublet room several times a year and take a free vacation! One Splurge: Hot Stone Massage at Greenhouse Holistic…. (drool).

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Caroline Shadood
Website Twitter Email: cshadood@gmail.com
From: Bernardsville, N.J. If you visit, you’ll remember why it’s called the Garden State.
Cheap BK Activity: When not running back and forth through various open hydrants, I enjoy potluck picnics, free shows and heckling pedestrians from my rooftop.
When not Brokelyning, I…: Freelance my face off, go to concerts, and do little else. I work for Bicycle Records, write for PopMatters and Not for Tourists, and I am a consultant here. I also juggle shoes at the front desk at Brooklyn Bowl. Say hi!
Cheapest secret, one splurge: Not-so-secret: why pay double for Williamsburg when you could be living  fiveminutes away in scenic Bushwick?  Splurge: I get spendy when faced with an amazing cup of coffee or an equally amazing book. That Verb Café/Spoonbill & Sugartown corner is my Bermuda Triangle.

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Thomas Sullivan
Twitter Email: tas357@nyu.edu

From: Brielle, NJ. Close to the beach and not much else.
Cheap BK Activity: Spending way too much time on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade.
When not Brokelyning, I…: Study Cinema Studies and Journalism at NYU, cry over impending student loans, eat way too much White Castle, review movies for Buzzine, and chronicle my food adventures with crappy pictures and poor attempts at humor on my blog Food on the Cheap.
Cheapest secret, one splurge: Secret: Taking the bus one way, and the subway the other for short errands so I only use one swipe, though I suppose this isn’t really a secret. Splurge: Pizza at Motorino. Get in my mouth. Oh, and expanding my way-too-big-as-it-is DVD collection.

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Alex Weisler
Twitter. Email: weisler.alex@gmail.com

From: Sheepshead Bay, with stops in Rockland County, NY and Central Pennsylvania.
Cheap BK activity: Riding the Cyclone twice because it’s only $5 the second time ’round. I grew up in the kind of family that tells you it’s cheaper to get something on sale than to buy nothing at all.
When not Brokelying, I… Serve as the managing editor of The Daily Collegian, Penn State’s 20,000-circulation daily independent student newspaper. I’m a senior majoring in journalism, with a double minor in Jewish studies and history.
Cheapest secret, one splurge: Monday trivia nights at Glasslands—half the time, they come with a free dinner. Splurge: 826NYC benefit events, like the screening of “Away We Go” I caught last summer at BAM Rose, sitting one row behind Jeffrey Wright.