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One of a Kind Billboard for Peachfrog on North 7th & Bedford

Photo by Maru Catalan
ON LOCAL SIGNAGE
A one-of-a-kind billboard for Peachfrog, the popular designer clothing liquidators on North 10th Street, was spray painted a couple of months ago by a celebrated Chilean graffiti artist, Francisco Fernandez, aka Dasic. The sign is located at the L train station stop at North 7th & Bedford Ave. Dasic is traveling [...]

Corcoran Group: Listings of the Week

112 Greenpoint Avenue:
Apts 4-B, 2-A and 1-A
Three apartments available in renovated six-story townhouse located in the heart of the culturally vibrant and thriving neighborhood of Greenpoint.
The historic building is surrounded by shops, bars, and restaurants including The Pencil Factory and Polonaise. Each apartment is grounded on corded oak floors and finished with the bedrock [...]

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 [...]

“Walk to the Opera” Summer Series

OperaOggiNY
Menotti’s ”The Medium”
Performances June 22 – 28
With smaller seasons at City Opera and the Met, people are finding that a surprising magic exists in small micro budget performances led by OperaOggiNY’s artistic director Thomas Toscano and music director Bill Lewis. In the spirit of bringing affordable opera to the people, they have created a new concept in [...]

Mudpit Starts Six-Week Summer Sessions

The Mudpit will be starting their super reasonably priced, six-week summer sessions this week (June 22) and next week (June 29). Summer classes are only $250 and include materials and seven-day-a-week open studio time. Take classes in moldmaking, tilemaking wheelthrowing, and handbuilding, and if you like, work in their patio garden or in their spacious [...]