Day: February 1, 2019

Music

Prospect Heights’ Bar The Way Station Offers A Social Cure For Dr. Who Fans

The Dr. Who themed space redefines the bar experience with events curated to a nerdy clientele. The Way Station, located in Prospect Heights, certainly offers a healthy variety of traditional bar activities: it’s the Prospect Heights’ venue for Geeks Who Drink, the national trivia company where losers who can’t free up RAM in their brains for more useful knowledge get […]

Cobble Hill, Land Use, LICH, Real Estate

As Fortis Tower Casts Shadow Over Cobble Hill, NYU Langone Site Sits Idle

In late 2017, at 347 Henry Street, construction began on 5 River Park, the first of four planned high-rises by developer Fortis Property Group that will soon loom over the Cobble Hill Historic District. Designed by Romines Architecture, the building’s 15 stories will hold 25 condos, with an average price of $3.15 million per unit. Work will finish on the […]

NYCHA

Just Say No to NYCHA Privatization

Julián Castro, the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) between 2014 and 2017, declared his presidential candidacy for 2020 on January 12, joining a rapidly growing field of indistinguishable centrist losers who’ll spend the next two years masquerading as bold progressives. His speech made use of Obama-style platitudes (“Brainpower is the new currency of success!”) while highlighting […]

Books

Brooklyn Heights Author Rachel Cline’s New Book Looks at MeToo — 9 Years Before the Movement Started 

The novelist Rachel Cline wrote the first page of what’s now described as a MeToo novel nine years before Christine Blasey-Ford testified.  “At last everyone is seeing how ubiquitous this experience is,” Cline, who was born and raised in Brooklyn Heights, says. “It was a moment that had to happen and needs to continue to happen.”  The good, painful, and ambiguous consequences […]

Music

New Zealand Band The Chills Play Their First Major U.S. Tour In Over 20 Years

Led by Martin Phillipps, The Chills are one of New Zealand’s best-known indie rock bands and foundation of the famed ‘Dunedin Sound’ (cited as an influence by the likes of Pavement and R.E.M.). Starting-out out in the early 1980s on the Flying Nun label, the band achieved cult status in Europe and on US college radio, before being signed to […]

Music

Lucrecia Dalt At the Issue Project Room: Feb 16

On February 16th, Colombian composer and sound artist Lucrecia Dalt will be giving her first U.S. performance since 2014 at Issue Project Room, in Downtown Brooklyn. Dalt calls on her training as a former geotechnical engineer to create hypnotic and poetic improvisations, fusing a sense of time and space, earth and breath. Sounding like something between Laurie Anderson and early […]