Category Archives: community space

genspace

17 May Filed under brooklyn spaces book, community space, downtown brooklyn, makers.

[I’m counting down to the release of the Brooklyn Spaces book by doing one mini-post per day, sharing teasers of some of the places you’ll find in it.]

neighborhood: downtown brooklyn | space type: community biolab | active since: 2010 …

mister rogers

9 May Filed under brooklyn spaces book, community space, coworking, crown heights, parties, performance. 1 Comment.

[I’m counting down to the release of the Brooklyn Spaces book by doing one mini-post per day, sharing teasers of some of the places you’ll find in it.]

neighborhood: crown heights | space type: performance venue & coworking | active …

pioneer works

15 May Filed under art gallery, art studios, community space, historic, makers, nonprofit, red hook, skillshare. 2 Comments.

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 …

silent barn redux

17 Jul Filed under art collective, art gallery, art studios, bushwick, communal living, community space, living space, music, parties, performance. 7 Comments.

neighborhood: ridgewood | space type: music, art, events | active since: 2013 | links: website, facebook, twitter

By now everyone probably knows the storied history of the Silent Barn. The band Skeletons started the DIY venue in their …

time’s up

10 Mar Filed under activism, community space, lower east side, skillshare, williamsburg. 8 Comments.

neighborhood: williamsburg | space type: community space, skillshare, activism | active since: 1987 | links: website, wikipedia, facebook, twitter, flickr

Environmental-activism nonprofit Time’s Up is actually one of the very first spaces I profiled when I …

body actualized center

26 Oct Filed under bushwick, community space, music, recreation. 3 Comments.

neighborhood: bushwick | space type: community space, yoga studio | active since: 2011 | links: website, facebook, twitter

Body Actualized Center for Cosmic Living is a new space in Bushwick that has quickly gained a lot of acclaim. …

bushwick city farms

8 Jul Filed under activism, bushwick, community space. 10 Comments.

space type: community farm | neighborhood: bushwick | active since: 2008 | links: website, facebook, twitter

The first thing my sister Laurel told me about Bushwick City Farms was that being a volunteer there went a tremendous way …

Bushwick Open Studios, photo by c. bay milin

trinity project

13 Aug Filed under art studios, closed, community space, east williamsburg, historic, nonprofit. 8 Comments.

neighborhood: east williamsburg | space type: nonprofit, art studios | active: 2009–2012 | link: facebook

The Trinity Project is a fantastic, pioneering nonprofit organization working to integrate artists more completely into the communities where they live. It’s an alliance between …

boswyck farms

23 May Filed under bushwick, community space. 11 Comments.

neighborhood: bushwick | space type: farm | active since: 2008 | links: website, facebook, twitter

Amid all the other creative movements in Brooklyn these days, farming is one that’s gaining ground. Brooklynites are farming in gardens (Trees …

books through bars

19 Mar Filed under activism, community space, nonprofit, red hook. 11 Comments.

neighborhood: red hook | space type: nonprofit | active since: 1996 | links: website, facebook

Books Through Bars is a all-volunteer collective started by the Nightcrawlers Anarchist Black Cross, and the group’s single goal is to donate free …