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 of our next BeerUp (meetup + beer) this Thursday!
Lurking about The Narrows. photo by Amira al-Sharif
THE NARROWS
1037 Flushing Ave., East Williamsburg
What it is: In a time when “1930′s Speakeasy” is becoming a Brooklyn bar genre, The Narrows delivers everything you would want: funky, great drinks, and just crowded enough to have an excuse to move closer to your date (or talk to the guy on the barstool next to you). Read the rest of this entry »
Our standard clothing-swap photo, by Jenene Chesbrough. It has no connection to this event.
Kioka, organizer of the Brooklyn Clothing Exchange, writes in to tell us about a clothing swap in Bed-Stuy this weekend. The details:
Saturday March 13, noon – 4 p.m. at Brooklyn Public Library, Macon Branch
361 Lewis Ave. at Macon Street, Stuyvesant Heights, Brooklyn, 718-573-5606
A to Utica
B15 to Macon or B25, B26 to Lewis
Bring at least one bag of clean clothing. For other rules, see the Brooklyn Clothing Exchange’s MySpace page.
Today may be Spike Lee Day, but we’re still on the hunt for a showing of Do the Right Thing tonight for those who missed it at Cafe Habana on Sunday. (Anyone?) We did, however, stumble upon a cool blog to bookmark so you never have to miss a free or cheap screening around Brooklyn again. The Kings County Cinema Society, a group of Brooklyn cinephiles, is showing the documentary Lockdown USA tomorrow night, July 1, (with free beer) on the roof of 15 Lawton Street in Bushwick (corner of Broadway & Malcolm X). Read the rest of this entry »
Louis Frank, Simon Levy and Emerson Brown, weathering the storm. Photo by Stefan Tonio
You pitch a few tents in a friend’s backyard and suddenly you’re the most hated kids in Brooklyn.
Our story yesterday on three happy campers in Bushwick was picked up by media outlets including The Post, Curbed, Gothamist and Brownstoner, whose commenters (142 at press time) unleashed their full fury on the rain-soaked youth.
“Stupid hipsters,” “Lazy ass jokers with iPods,” “white trash” and “asshats” were a few of the many epithets hurled at the trio by the nut jobs on Brownstoner. Others wanted to sleep with them. But there were a handful of commenters (brave souls) who wrote that they actually think the backyard campout is pretty cool. Read the rest of this entry »
When it comes to Valentine’s Day, I’m firmly in Tim’s camp: it’s for suckers. Of course, I have a lot more to cry about than he does. Instead of doing that, I went to Fat Albert’s, the most wonderful department store in all of Bushwick, and shopped for all of you people. If you’re not familiar, Fat Albert’s is a giant, anything goes discount warehouse right by the Flushing Ave. J and M stop, described by a Yelp reviewer (the only Yelp reviewer, actually) as a place that “looks pretty beat up and does need an extreme makeover, but you can’t beat the prices.” Sounds like the perfect place to find a Valentine’s Day present! Read the rest of this entry »
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 of our next BeerUp (meetup + beer) this Thursday!
Lurking about The Narrows. photo by Amira al-Sharif
THE NARROWS
1037 Flushing Ave., East Williamsburg
What it is: In a time when “1930′s Speakeasy” is becoming a Brooklyn bar genre, The Narrows delivers everything you would want: funky, great drinks, and just crowded enough to have an excuse to move closer to your date (or talk to the guy on the barstool next to you). Read the rest of this entry »
Our standard clothing-swap photo, by Jenene Chesbrough. It has no connection to this event.
Kioka, organizer of the Brooklyn Clothing Exchange, writes in to tell us about a clothing swap in Bed-Stuy this weekend. The details:
Saturday March 13, noon – 4 p.m. at Brooklyn Public Library, Macon Branch
361 Lewis Ave. at Macon Street, Stuyvesant Heights, Brooklyn, 718-573-5606
A to Utica
B15 to Macon or B25, B26 to Lewis
Bring at least one bag of clean clothing. For other rules, see the Brooklyn Clothing Exchange’s MySpace page.
Today may be Spike Lee Day, but we’re still on the hunt for a showing of Do the Right Thing tonight for those who missed it at Cafe Habana on Sunday. (Anyone?) We did, however, stumble upon a cool blog to bookmark so you never have to miss a free or cheap screening around Brooklyn again. The Kings County Cinema Society, a group of Brooklyn cinephiles, is showing the documentary Lockdown USA tomorrow night, July 1, (with free beer) on the roof of 15 Lawton Street in Bushwick (corner of Broadway & Malcolm X). Read the rest of this entry »
Louis Frank, Simon Levy and Emerson Brown, weathering the storm. Photo by Stefan Tonio
You pitch a few tents in a friend’s backyard and suddenly you’re the most hated kids in Brooklyn.
Our story yesterday on three happy campers in Bushwick was picked up by media outlets including The Post, Curbed, Gothamist and Brownstoner, whose commenters (142 at press time) unleashed their full fury on the rain-soaked youth.
“Stupid hipsters,” “Lazy ass jokers with iPods,” “white trash” and “asshats” were a few of the many epithets hurled at the trio by the nut jobs on Brownstoner. Others wanted to sleep with them. But there were a handful of commenters (brave souls) who wrote that they actually think the backyard campout is pretty cool. Read the rest of this entry »
