Citizen Brooklyn

I have clean shirts, a nice smile, and experience. No one will hire me though because I don’t have an address, can’t send the checks to the baseball field.

I read an article recently stating that Brooklyn is now the least affordable place to live in the country.

Rising rents force more artists out.

“Would you rather have a sexy woman or a good-looking one?”
“Can’t I have both?”
“No, you have to choose.”
“Then I guess I’ll go with the sexy one.”

Caught fleet-footed in Fort Greene: African-dance studio getting the boot

The stylish brick walls, the modest wooden furniture, the folksy-indie music softly playing while monastic patrons sip their coffees with iMacs illuminating their faces in the dimly lit space—it all offers a sharp contrast to the couple violently storming down the sidewalk across the street, exchanging obscenities on a recent Thursday

It certainly feels like a place unto itself, with more old-school businesses and more NYCHA developments than in the fancier parts of Williamsburg.

Bklyn Beast joins 3rd Ward and the House of Yes on the list of the Williamsburg DIY dead

As Greenpoint gentrifies, Lee’s causes a flap

This is the second time House of Yes has had to search for a new space.

Gentrification that has spilled over from industrial East Williamsburg to residential northeast Bushwick is spreading inexorably southward—

“It’s a shame that we’re out here trying to get the city to give us what they promised,”