Water Street, (DUMBO) Brooklyn (February, 2010) (See more photos from the “Literature Versus Traffic” project @ luzinterruptus)
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Travel Photo of the Day: Brooklyn (DUMBO), New York – Literature Versus Traffic
Posted in Books, Brooklyn, DUMBO, New York City, Photography, U.S. Travel on February 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Water Under the Bridges: Joshua Derr’s Photographs of DUMBO, Brooklyn
Posted in Architecture, Brooklyn, DUMBO, New York City, Photography, Urban Affairs on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Despite a six-day-a-week work schedule, Derr always makes time to take pictures. His images of DUMBO, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Red Hook, and Brooklyn Heights can be seen on Flickr — and purchased through Imagekind — and have appeared in the Gothamist, the New York Times, and Brooklyn Heights blog. They’ve also been published on dumbonyc.com and [...]
Designing Brooklyn: 7th Annual BKLYN DESIGNS Show Opens Tomorrow
Posted in Arts & Crafts, Brooklyn, Business, Design, DUMBO, Museums & Exhibitions, New York City, Urban Affairs on May 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“TOMORROW, the seventh annual show of designs created in Brooklyn — Bklyn Designs — will open in Dumbo, drawing renewed attention to this neighborhood of former factories and warehouses, and its vibrant design scene. “Over the last six years, the juried show, which features contemporary furnishings, lighting and accessories designed, and in most cases made, [...]
DUMBO Dock Street Project Update – City Planning Commission OKs Smaller Building
Posted in Architecture, Brooklyn, DUMBO, New York City, Urban Affairs on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“The City Planning Commission voted overwhelmingly to support a controversial tower next to the Brooklyn Bridge — though the building’s 18-story wing will be shaved by one story. “In addition, Jed Walentas’s 325-unit Dock Street proposal — which features a ‘green’ design, plus 65 below-market-rate rentals and a public middle school — would lose two [...]
Making Book: The Crumpled Press & The Art of Independent Bookmaking in a Digital Age
Posted in Art & Artists, Books, Brooklyn, Business, New York City, Writers & Writing on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“The Crumpled Press, the brainchild of [Jordan] McIntyre and [Alexander] Bick, publishes work by new authors and sets previously unpublished, notable lectures and articles into proper books — hand-sewn — on culture, politics, self-reflection, and poetry. ‘It’s original, thought-provoking work that might otherwise be tossed aside,’ says Bick, who is pursuing a history PhD at [...]
1st Annual “Walking Tour of New York’s Independent Bookstores” Scheduled for May 2nd
Posted in Books, Brooklyn, Business, DUMBO, Literature, New York City, U.S. Travel, Urban Affairs on April 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Saturday, May 2nd, “The Millions.com” will lead their first annual ”Walking Tour of New York’s Independent Bookstores.” The 11-stop itinerary begins in the East Village, continues through NoLita and SOHO, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge into DUMBO, and ends after 4 or so hours of walking and book-browsing in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The complete, 11-stop itinerary includes: [...]
DUMBO Dock Street Project Update – Historian David McCullough Rallies Opposition
Posted in Architecture, Brooklyn, DUMBO, New York City, Urban Affairs on April 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“In the latest chapter of a hot dispute over the building of a proposed tower near the Brooklyn Bridge, the historian and Brooklyn Bridge expert David McCullough is voicing his opposition to the plan. “At a news conference on Wednesday, Mr. McCullough spoke to a crowd of more than 50 local advocates and politicians about [...]
R.I.P. – Helen Levitt (1913-2009)
Posted in Art & Artists, Brooklyn, New York City, Obituaries, Photography on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Helen Levitt, a major photographer of the 20th century who caught fleeting moments of surpassing lyricism, mystery and quiet drama on the streets of her native New York, died in her sleep at her home in Manhattan on Sunday. She was 95. . . . “Ms. Levitt captured instances of a cinematic and delightfully guileless [...]
Big City Blues (& Yellows): NYC Hikes Subway, Bus Fares (Taxis OK)
Posted in Brooklyn, Business, Economy, New York City, U.S. Travel, Urban Affairs on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On the same day the New York Times reported that the city’s yellow cab industry is being spared from the worst effects of the recession by allowing riders to pay by credit card, the MTA announced major fare hikes for public transportation commuters: “After a fiery hearing Wednesday, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority voted 12 to 1 to approve subway, [...]
R.I.P. – James Purdy (1914-2009)
Posted in Books, Brooklyn, Literature, Obituaries, Plays & Playwrights, Writers & Writing on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“James Purdy, whose dark, often savagely comic fiction evoked a psychic American landscape of deluded innocence, sexual obsession, violence and isolation, died Friday in Englewood, N.J. He was 94 and lived in Brooklyn Heights. . . . “Wayward and unclassifiable, Mr. Purdy, the author of the novels ‘Malcolm’ and ‘The Nephew,’ labored at the margins [...]
Literary Hoops: A Basketball League for Book Lovers
Posted in Books, Brooklyn, New York City, Sports on March 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Coming Soon - the WORD Basketball League! WORD Books in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, is setting up a summer basketball league for book lovers. The league will welcome men and women and will likely play its games on the playground courts across the street from the store. To prove their league-readiness, applicants need not demonstrate their shooting or dribbling [...]
Scent of a Woman, or: The Sweet Smell of Old Books
Posted in Books, Brooklyn, Business, New York City, Popular Culture on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Brooklyn, New York perfume merchant CB I Hate Perfume has just introduced “In the Library,” “a perfume inspired by the proprietor Christopher Brosius’s love of books and his inability to pass a secondhand bookshop without stopping in. “According to the shop’s description, the perfume is supposed to evoke a first-edition English novel via ‘Russian and Moroccan leather [...]
R.I.P. – Robert Guskind (1958-2009)
Posted in Brooklyn, DUMBO, New York City, Obituaries, Urban Affairs, World Wide Web, Writers & Writing on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bob Guskind, the legendary Brooklyn blogger and founder of Gowanus Lounge, has died: “After days of speculation inside and outside the blogosphere, much-liked journalist Robert Guskind died on Wednesday, the city Medical Examiner confirmed this morning. . . . “In his prime, Guskind’s blog focussed a keen eye on city development projects with an objectivity [...]
Nora’s Last Scene: Mabou Mines’ Dollhouse Ends Final Run
Posted in Actors & Acting, Brooklyn, DUMBO, Literature, New York City, Performing Arts, Plays & Playwrights, Sex & Gender, Theater, Writers & Writing on March 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mabou Mines’ Dollhouse, which first opened in late 2003 at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, returned to St. Ann’s last month after five years of touring the world, for what is likely the final staging of the celebrated adaptation of Ibsen’s “protofeminist” classic, A Doll’s House. This exhilarating, bawdy and broadly comic production, in which the male actors are [...]
Brooklyn “Chizuk”: Hasidic Jews Confront Child Sexual Abuse
Posted in Brooklyn, Crimes & Misdemeanors, Jewish Life, New York City, Religion, Sex & Gender on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“A month after allegations of child sexual abuse surfaced in the mainstream press, the Hasidic community in Brooklyn, N.Y., is taking cautious steps to confront the scandal. Meanwhile, outsiders are tackling the issue head on. “On Sunday, state Assemblyman Dov Hikind plans to host a community-wide ‘morning of chizuk’ (support) for the alleged victims of abuse. Hikind, an Orthodox [...]
DUMBO Dock Street Project Update – Brooklyn Borough President Says Yes . . . But
Posted in Architecture, Brooklyn, DUMBO, New York City, Urban Affairs on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“The Brooklyn borough president, Marty Markowitz, has jumped into a contentious debate over a proposed development near the Brooklyn Bridge, saying that he supports the project but would like to see it modified. “In a letter to the Department of City Planning, Mr. Markowitz wrote that he supported the proposed tower, called Dock Street Dumbo, which would include [...]
Joseph O’Neill’s “Netherland” Wins Pen/Faulkner Fiction Award
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Brooklyn, Literature, New York City, Sports, U.S. Travel, Writers & Writing on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Joseph O’Neill’s novel ‘Netherland’ was named the winner of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the PEN/Faulkner Foundation said on Wednesday. The honor for ‘Netherland,’ about a Dutch-born equities analyst, his British wife and their son, who live in New York during the Sept. 11 attack and its aftermath, is something of a comeback for Mr. O’Neill. [...]
Brooklyn’s New Culinary Movement
Posted in Brooklyn, Business, DUMBO, Food & Wine, New York City, U.S. Travel on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“These days, with a kitchen and a bit of ambition, you can start to make a name for yourself in Brooklyn. The borough has become an incubator for a culinary-minded generation whose idea of fun is learning how to make something delicious and finding a way to sell it. “These Brooklynites, most in their 20s [...]
A Patisserie Grows in Brooklyn: Almondine Bakery & The Rise of DUMBO
Posted in Architecture, Brooklyn, DUMBO, Food & Wine, New York City, Television, U.S. Travel, Urban Affairs on February 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As reported in a New York Magazine article still much-discussed by DUMBO locals, Steven Kaplan, a Professor of European History at Cornell University and the “world’s preeminent French-bread scholar,” after a blind tasting of 13 of New York City’s finest baguettes, chose Almondine Bakery‘s eponymous baguette as the city’s best. Scoring a 14.65 (on a scale of [...]
DUMBO Dock Street Project Update – Murdoch for the Defense
Posted in Architecture, Brooklyn, DUMBO, Magazines & Newspapers, Media & Advertising, New York City, Urban Affairs on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In a recent editorial, “A Con Grows In B’klyn,” Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post, like The Brooklyn Paper before it, voiced its support for the controversial 18-story residential building and public middle school that opponents argue will forever block views of the historic Brooklyn Bridge. But unlike The Brooklyn Paper, which published a measured, point-by-point rebuttal to critics [...]
