space type: nonprofit, skillshare, gallery | neighborhood: red hook | active since: 2012 | links: website, facebook, twitter, wikipedia
Pioneer Works is huge. It’s around 27,000 square feet with 40-foot ceilings, which is just truly, absolutely …
12-turn-13
space type: parties, events | neighborhood: clinton hill | active since: 1998 | links: website, facebook
Art party space 12-turn-13 sits in a huge industrial building dating back to the 1930s, one of only two remaining structures from the …
uniondocs
space type: movies, event space, nonprofit | neighborhood: williamsburg | active since: 2005 | links: website, facebook, twitter
UnionDocs is a center focused on documentary art in all its facets. They put on about 100 events a year—primarily …
brooklyn historical society
space type: museum, nonprofit | neighborhood: brooklyn heights | active since: 1863 | links: website, facebook, twitter
The Brooklyn Historical Society is definitely a bit more conventional than the spaces I usually cover here. But this is a …
the cave of archaic remnants
space type: art studio & performance venue | neighborhood: crown heights | active since: 2012 | links: facebook
The Cave is a huge basement studio in an artists’ loft building in Crown Heights. It’s a multifaceted space: part performance venue, …
285 kent ave
space type: music venue | neighborhood: williamsburg | active since: 2010–2014 | links: twitter
Update, January 2014:
No one expected 285 Kent to last forever, and news of its closing was just released. It’s not worth making any grand claims …
exapno (metropolitan exchange building)
neighborhood: downtown brooklyn | space type: music coworking | open since: 2010 | links: website, facebook, twitter
Founded by husband-and-wife composers Lainie and Jascha, Exapno is a coworking space for the musically minded. For a very low …
see.me
space type: art gallery | neighborhood: long island city | active since: 2013 | links: website, facebook, twitter
You’ve probably heard of See.Me already. The organization used to be called Artists Wanted, and they were well known for …
brooklyn lyceum
space type: performance venue | neighborhood: park slope | active since: 1910 | links: website, facebook, twitter
This is by far the oldest space I’ve written about. It was built in 1910 as a public bathhouse, boasting 100 …
brooklyn spaces – the book!
My darling dears, I’m delighted to announce the most exciting news:
Brooklyn Spaces is going to be a book!
Brooklyn Spaces: 50 Outrageous Hubs of Culture & Creativity will be published by the wonderful Monacelli Press in Spring 2015, and …