Dive Bars of North Brooklyn
For all the fancypants joints that are popping up all over, Williamsburg and Greenpoint still have their fair share of the kinds of places where you can put a dollar in a jukebox, get a PBR and a shot for $4, play Big Buck Hunter, and never have to worry about mispronouncing “Weihenstephaner.”
Beauty and The Tattoo
This phenomenon now decorates a much wider slice of the population, including lawyers, bankers, doctors, and cops.
Tattoos: Why Now? Why Here?
Mary Kosut has a PhD in Sociology and teaches at SUNY Purchase College. WG tapped Kosut for her knowledge of the sociology of the body—tattoos especially.
Have a Drink, You’re in Williamsburg!
Attractive women in fanciful outfits and guys wearing cool hats and vests drinking local beers on tap… At the end of the night, one sighs contentedly, picks up freshly baked bread, and stumbles home down cobblestone streets.
Trent’s Gallery Picks—October 2010
The six artists in “What Art Can Do” have at least one thing in common (and it isn’t their artistic styles): they all run galleries in Williamsburg.












