Best Way to Chill: Ice cream, frozen yogurt, alcohol (a marriage made in Brooklyn)
On the weekends, ice cream and frozen yogurt trucks are everywhere in Williamsburg. There is the mellow-yellow Van Leeuwen truck on Bedford Avenue, the Cool Haus Truck ($10 double-decked ice cream sandwiches from L.A.!) parked on Metropolitan or Bedford avenues, and a Yogo truck can be seen roaming around like a lost child…
The Rules of Grace—Performance art thrives at 840 Broadway
Grace Exhibition Space is one of the few performance art galleries in New York City, ridding itself of a stage and focusing on the immersion of artist and audience …. providing several hours of performance by both local and international artists.
OP/ED Fudged Test Scores: Middle school teachers left holding the bag
Stunning recent charges of cheating at PS 31 in Greenpoint and PS 257 in Williamsburg have rocked the two communities….
The Morgan Avenue Stop: Twins, Trains, and Tacos
By Jason McGahan If you run a successful restaurant or bar in “Morgantown”—that concrete patch of factories and factory lofts where East Williamsburg meets Bushwick—you tend to keep a low profile. Discretion is…
Op/Ed Architectural Apartheid
Have you ever felt that you were being watched? Do you have that eerie, creepy sensation that makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck, that even gives you a sense of foreboding? You’re not paranoid, because it’s them. It’s those waterfront glass Frankentowers—Northside Piers and The Edge…
Kombucha Come Home: A different kind of brew
“If I get bloated after a heavy meal, I’ll drink kombucha and instantly feel better,” says Casper. “It’s also a great hangover cure!” Others claim it boosts immunity and can even help fight cancer, though all health benefits have yet to be scientifically proven.
OP/ED: City Denies Daycare: Let the children play, but where?
Williamsburg parents are branded by their choice of child care: stay-at-home moms or dads, Tibetan or Jamaican nannies, DIY child care collectives, home-schooling (apparently people consider a two-year-old home-schooled), Williamsburg Northside, Mi Escuelita, Williamsburg Neighborhood Nursery School (WNNS).