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Other Half Brewing now open in Gowanus.

We are so psyched about this.  This brewery, at 195 Centre Street in Gowanus, is owned by Matt Monahan and Sam Richardson, who is also the head brewer.  Both used to work at Greenpoint Beerworks before venturing to start their own brewery.  What does this place offer the people of our hood, besides creating tasty […]

Men’s designer winterwear sale in Brooklyn Heights.

548 W 28th Street 2nd Floor 548 W 28th Street 2nd Floor Photo: Darcy Smyth Goose Barnacle, a menswear store at 91 Atlantic Ave right on the Brooklyn Heights Cobble Hill border, is having a sale on winter clothing and shoes.  Some items are as much as half off.  You have plenty of time to […]

Smith Street Print Show now until March 1st.

The show isn’t in the hood exactly, it’s at a gallery in Manhattan at 548 W 28th street on the 2nd floor.  It does involve artists from the Smith Street tattoo Parlor though.  The exhibit presents the tattoo parlor’s founders Bert Krak, Steve Bolts, Eli Quinters, and Dan Santoro handmade prints.  To learn more about […]

NY Rising Red Hook news and open house reminder.

Here’s a reminder for you for the open house we’re hosting tomorrow and Sunday.  Please fell free to stop by anytime.  We also wanted to pass along some newsworthy information the NY Rising Red Hook Planning Committee & Committee Co-Chairs wanted to share with us.  You can see that excerpt below the open house info.  […]

Re-do re-scheduled Fairway Market trivia race.

We blogged earlier this week about the Fleetwit Fairway race, a part trivia part word puzzles style online race, for gift card prizes that had some hiccups.  The company that puts together these races scheduled another race for Monday, when we wrote the blog.  Later that night they sent out a re-schedule notice stating that […]

Red Hook Rising Community Reconstruction Program open house this weekend.

We’re hosting this event this Saturday and Sunday at our Red Hook location at 351 Van Brunt street.  We’re so lucky to have such a tight knit community here in Red Hook and would love everyone to come out this weekend and share your thoughts on how to make it stronger.  Both days will be […]

Fairway online race redo tonight.

We registered last night for the Fleetwit Fairway race to win a gift card and it was a lot of fun.  It began at 8:30pm and we, along with over 2000 other who registered, answered Fairway-related questions as quickly as we could.  First place winner got $500 gift card, 2nd got $250, 3rd got $100, […]

Book Court events this week.

It’s a busy week over at Book Court.  We’re always impressed with their events and this week they have so many to choose from.  You can head down to 163 Court Street either Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday night fro readings and signings.  From fiction author Willy Vlautin, to a panel discussion about how communication has […]

Element Healing Arts pop-up-shop.

For the entire month of February, at this point the second half of it, Element Healing Arts will have a pop-up-shop at 233 Smith Street (between Butler and Douglass Street).  Element’s home base is at 518 Henry and Union Street and they have a number of services from many different types of massages to acupuncture […]

Snow day ideas.

Ugh.  Definitely sick of this weather but not going to let it get us down and keep us stuck inside.  Here’s what we want to do today and tonight to get over the snowy day blues.  Get lunch at Dassara.  A hot bowl of Ramen is perfect for this weather.  There was just a write-up […]