Corcoran Group: Listings of the Week

30 Bayard Street - Apt 7B @ McCarren Park

This featured real estate listing is a 1,410-sq ft penthouse on McCarren Park with a 860 sq ft terrace where one can enjoy picnics above the park; it is fully landscaped and finished with a concrete wood-burning fireplace. The fun and expansive living continues inside from the 10 foot ceilings, down to the 4 inch Brazilian Teak floors, and private keyed elevator entrance. To learn more, click here. [read more]

The Unfancy Food Show

The much anticipated annual Unfancy Food Show was held this past Sunday at East River Bar, celebrating all things local, organic, sustainable, artisanal and Brooklyn. Organized by Annaliese Griffin and Tom Mylan, the show included nearly twenty vendors supplying a vast mouth-watering and curious mix of edible goods from raw chocolate and rooftop grown vegetables to authentic kimchee and peppery beef jerky. It was a packed mosh pit scene with sweat trickling from the pores of both skin and tongue. I arrived too late to sample Marlow & Sons’ brisket and whitefish sandwiches, or Salvatore’s freshly cut prosciutto sandwiches, but I left content at having tasted some of the best produce, cheese and sweets on this side of the East River. [read more]

At Pete’s Candy: A STOOP-ID TALE w/Kimber VanRy

Tonight at 7:30pm, Pete’s Candy Store (709 Lorimer St) presents Kimber VanRy as part of their bi-monthly lecture series they call Open City Dialogue.

Few things better evoke the poetic pleasures of a Brooklyn summer than drinking a beer on the stoop on a hot evening.  Just one little thing, though: it’s ILLEGAL!  So Kimber VanRy found out last summer when he received a $25 summons for the nefarious act in his home hood of Prospect Heights.  He could have just paid the small fine–but where’s the fun in that? Mr. VanRy decided instead that he would fight for his right to party! After numerous court cases and even a New York Times profile, Mr. VanRy is ready to give the full tale!
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