It was perhaps inevitable. Even a beloved boutique manufacturer could only survive for so long on the condo-crazed shores of Williamsburg. Brooklyn Brewery was the city’s first big-time microbrewer and helped bring the sudsy movement to the East Coast in the 1990s. Now, the brewery’s home has been quietly sold, and it looks like a Read More
So maybe instead of upscale, the Coney Island concretewalk-to-be will trade in downmarket for mass-market.
There has been a fair deal of handwringing over yesterday’s announcement that nine out of 11 boardwalk stalwarts will be gone next year. “People in the summer love to come in for a drink in their Read More
What: The Great American Beer Festival
Where: Denver, Colo.
Why: Because the Mile High City celebrates its craft beer culture in a way New York is just coming around to
The City of Denver, along with the trade group the Brewers Association, hosted a jolly bus tour of Denver’s more Read More
The Brooklyn Brewery has gotten the seal of approval from the state for a grant to expand its factory/beer hall in Williamsburg. The $800,000 subsidy is about one-sixth of the cost of the total $4.6 million expansion, which is expected to retain 27 jobs and add a grand total of nine permanent jobs, according to the Read More
Williamsburg You Ever Hear of It?
Neville Ross, a Douglas Elliman broker, is clean-shaven in the photograph on his business card. But at Wednesday evening’s grand opening party for the condos at 58 Metropolitan in Williamsburg, he was sporting a thick, bushy and, dare we say it, hipster beard.
Mr. Ross wouldn’t comment, but the beard seemed to represent at least Read More
“The Brooklyn Brewery was a confirmation of the American Dream,” co-founder Steve Hindy wrote in a commentary released today by the Center for an Urban Future called "Trouble Brewing."
“But after a frustrating, futile four-year search for a new Brewery site to expand operations in the city, I am now asking myself Read More
With that in mind, we thought we’d present this modest introduction to the neighborhood. It’s not much, but it will encourage your natural curiosity and soften the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune by directing you to the elements of Williamsburg life that will be the most comfortable to you and that have been developed Read More
Brooklyn Brewery co-founder and current president Steve Hindy has been elected to the board of directors of The Beer Institute (yup, that would be the national trade association representing the brewing industry, God bless ‘em).
My colleague Chris Shott profiled Mr. Hindy last May as an unlikely real estate power broker in Brooklyn, which Read More
A green lament for the fall of Eliot Spitzer: “Whether it was toxic mercury, smog and acid rain or global warming, Spitzer would reliably fight on behalf of environmentalists and scientists who sought to strengthen weak standards to protect human health and the environment.” [thedailygreen.com]
At a hearing before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Atomic Read More
Last Call for Bar’s Lonely Anti-Atlantic Yards Boycott
Boycotting can be a lonely business. Just ask Frank Yost, proprietor of Freddy’s Bar and Backroom in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.
Freddy’s is the last bar standing within the 22-acre footprint of Forest City Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project. The famous dive and art gallery, which is slated for Read More
