It has not been a good year for D.I.Y. party spaces in Brooklyn, about the only place left for such shindigs as they have been driven out of Manhattan, and even much of Kings County, due to creeping gentrification. This year, like many in the Bloomberg administration, saw increasing crackdowns, though, reports The Village Voice, and it is getting harder than ever for a ragtag band of artists and musicians to find room to work. Read More
Hank Azaria may be the best thing—really the only good thing—about the sacrilege that is Smurfs 3-D. And The Observer had no idea he was even in the movie until he decided to sell his Soho loft. Perhaps that was the whole point. Read More
I don’t know if I’d go as far as real estate reporter Matt Chaban does in describing Aron Namenwirth of Williamsburg, who says the rezoning (and subsequent development and higher rents and taxes) of his neighborhood is forcing him out of his Williamsburg loft.
But Chaban does point to an under-reported angle in one of Bloomberg’s signature Read More
