In the vein of the Double Rainbow Guy, we bring you Tornado Hipster Dudes. Watch a couple of Greenpoint residents completely overreact (ironically or not?) to some wind and rain, from their double balconied-condo. It’s fucking funneling dude!
Greenpoint feels a bit like a small town trapped in a different era, but in that warm and welcoming everybody-knows-each-other, life-is-fine-and-dandy kind of way. Though the neighborhood has seen an influx of younger residents over the last decade bringing with them new restaurants and bars, at Brooklyn’s northern most point, the new and the old fit together, creating a friendly, vibrant community.
The Greenpoint Food Market offered a low-cost, low-key environment for home cooks and amateur chefs to share their homemade products, but not anymore. Founder Joann Kim announced Wednesday that the market has shut down, hopefully only until the fall.
For the rest of the summer, ditch your normal brunch spot and try a place where you can enjoy your mimosa under the sun. This week, head to North Brooklyn for some good eats and amusing hipster-watching at Five Leaves.
Brooklyn’s atmosphere constantly inspires artist Alex White Mazzarella. “The people here, the mixing of cultures here, and the energy that exists here are much deeper inspirations than the physical coolness of other cities I’ve been to,” he says.
Ryan Britt will spend the month of April writing one short fiction story per week set in a Brooklyn neighborhood. Ryan’s writing has been published with Nerve, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood and is forthcoming in Opium, and Clarkesworld. He has performed stories on stage with The Liar Show, The Moth, Stripped Stories, and Heeb. Ryan’s plays have enjoyed staged readings and full productions in New York City with Collective Unconscious, The Longest Lunch Theatre Company and The Tank. From 2008-2009 he wrote a short story every day and posted them to his blog called “Side Affects,” He lives in Brooklyn.
As the local political dust of 2009 settles, Brooklynites will begin to see their city council choices at work (or not) in the new year.
Former councilman Bill deBlasio ascended to the role of public advocate this month, and stood with some of the council’s newest members to announce his intentions of reform for the office. “You have to engage the grass roots, and my office will be the leading edge of that,” he told the New York Times, of his desire to train city residents as community organizers. Now, residents of our fine borough will see the representation of three new incumbents whose rise to local leader began in the very same place.
