Category Archives: williamsburg

house of collection

14 May Filed under brooklyn spaces book, living space, williamsburg.

[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: williamsburg | space type: home | active since: 1989 | links:…

big irv’s

6 May Filed under art collective, art studios, brooklyn spaces book, williamsburg.

[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: williamsburg | space type: art & events | active since: 2012 …

285 kent ave

11 Nov Filed under closed, music, williamsburg. 3 Comments.

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 …

acme studio

31 May Filed under commercial, makers, williamsburg. 3 Comments.

space type: photo studio & prop house | neighborhood: williamsburg | active since: 2010 | links: website, facebook, twitter, tumblr

Listen, I’ve been to a lot of wacky spaces through this project, but Acme is one of …

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 …

dead herring

23 Jan Filed under closed, communal living, living space, music, performance, underground, williamsburg. 10 Comments.

space type: apartment & music | neighborhood: williamsburg | active: 2007–2013 | links: myspace, facebook, twitter

For most of its run, Dead Herring—an apartment that sometimes doubled as a DIY music and occasional theatre space was fairly averse …

vaudeville park

25 Mar Filed under bushwick, closed, east williamsburg, music, performance, williamsburg. 4 Comments.

space type: art & music venue | neighborhood: williamsburg | active: 2008–2013 | links: website, facebook, twitter

Vaudeville Park is a plucky arts venue with wildly diverse programming. It sits right on the borderline (at least, the current …

the muse

15 Jan Filed under bushwick, performance, williamsburg. 6 Comments.

space type: aerialist venue | neighborhood: williamsburg, bushwick | active since: 2011 | links: website, facebook, twitter

Update, spring 2015: Last winter, Vice magazine took over two adjoining buildings on the Williamsburg waterfront, evicting several underground spaces in …

monster island

16 Sep Filed under art collective, art gallery, art studios, closed, music, williamsburg. 13 Comments.

neighborhood: williamsburg | space type: art gallery, studios, venue | active: 2004–2011

It feels a bit trite to talk about the demise of Williamsburg cool, an inevitability that only the most obtuse and culturally unaware would still argue isn’t happening, …

big sky works

12 Jun Filed under performance, underground, williamsburg. 14 Comments.

neighborhood: williamsburg | space type: circus | active since: 2011 | links: website, facebook, twitter

Wau Wau Sisters at Big Sky Works

When I was in college in New Jersey, we used to come to Brooklyn to hunt …