FEAST (Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics) is a multi-disciplinary, community-based artist grant that’s funded by a monthly public dinner held at the Church of Messiah. Guests pay an entrance fee, eat a delicious meal, and vote on a variety of proposed artist projects. All proceeds collected go to the winner, and fund the [...]
There’s something addictive about walking over the Williamsburg Bridge. There must be, as every day, so many of your fellow neighborhoodies walk the 1.4-mile walk, a hundred feet in the air. The industrial latticework of red fading into Pepto Bismol may not be one of architecture’s greatest aesthetic accomplishments, but its quirkiness makes [...]
Vacant and skeletal but a week ago, the Williamsburg Bridge filled up with warm bodies stretching their winter legs and warming themselves in the late afternoon last Saturday (4/18), on what will now be officially known as “Thank God It’s Finally Spring Day.”
Earth Day has always been synonymous with cleaning road side debris, the “Leave No Trace Movement” and the mantra “reduce-reuse-recycle.” Despite its good intentions, the Go Green! Greenpoint! Earth Day Festival, held last Sunday afternoon in McCarren Park by the New York Department of Parks and Recreation, seemed to forget some of its roots.
I first entered the Greenpoint Shul of Congregation Ahavas Israel last year, when the shul’s president plucked me off of Franklin Street on my way to buy coffee. The congregation was struggling to make a minyan — the ten-man quorum needed to hold a service, and I was enlisted as Congregant #10.
On Thursday, I went back to [...]