Photo © Geralyn Shukwit
City’s Schools Share Space, and Bitterness, With Charters [NYPost]
Community Board Blocks Chasidic Developers Project Rose Plaza [Vosizneias]
New Bike Lane for Williamsburg Street [Brownstoner]
Sonic Youth: Old Rockers Harnessing the Old Power [NYT]
My fashion blogger life got changed from something descending from the heavens. By “something,” I mean my folks.
According to my parents, seeing the Big Apple for the first time, not to mention paying me my first visit since moving to the city two years ago, apparently called for plenty of clothing from my one-time employer, [...]
Motivated by the mounds of food I know I’ll be sinking my teeth into later, and also an episode of the Biggest Loser on television last night (don’t hate on mass media motivation) I set out on a run over the Pulaski Bridge this morning.
Like my roommates—one gone to Chicago and the other New Jersey—I [...]
Photo © Geralyn Shukwit
Community Board Rejects “Rose Plaza” Waterfront Towers [BrooklynPaper]
Kane & Couture Hosts the Grand Opening of Kiki’s Pet Spa [marketwire]
Brooklyn Man Gives Thanks by Feeding Fellow Homeless [DailyNews]
Jonathan Lethem at Greenpoint’s Word Bookstore Sunday [BrooklynPaper]
Photo: Philip Mauro
In this photo (and it’s not photo-shopped!) Pastor Ann Kansfield of the Greenpoint Reformed Church is in the company of two very big movie stars: Keanu Reeves and Vera Farmiga who stopped by the Greenpoint Reformed Church Soup Kitchen, earlier today, to lend some support before the Kitchen’s Thanksgiving meal was served. Reeves and [...]
Photo: © Geralyn Shukwit
Stolen Vehicle Crashes into Building, 3 Injured [WPIX]
Competitive Skee-ball League Forming [YourNabe]
Woodhull Releases Cookbook Good Enough to Eat [YourNabe]
A Piano Bar Grows in Brooklyn [NYT]
My blog post today features a Williamsburg-based fashion social media site Fashism (turns fashion criticism on its head) where users can rank each others’ outfits. Think of it as a way for people to Digg your Style. Here’s a Q & A with Fashism co-founder Brooke Moreland.
WG: How did you get the idea to launch a [...]