Tag Archives: community space

fivemyles

14 May Filed under art gallery, crown heights.

[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: gallery | active since: 1999 | …

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 …

jerkhaus

11 Mar Filed under closed, communal living, living space, music, sunset park. 6 Comments.

neighborhood: sunset park | space type: music & living space | active: 2004–2011 | links: none (sorry!)

The Jerkhaus is an incredibly lived-in communal-housing and punk-show space. They’ve had almost sixty roommates over the seven years the house has been …

trees not trash

20 Jan Filed under activism, bushwick, community space, east williamsburg. 24 Comments.

photos by Maximus Comissar

neighborhood: East Williamsburg / Bushwick | space type: community space; guerilla garden | active since: 2004 | link: website, facebook

Who says a space has to be enclosed by four walls, or even have a …

the brooklyn free store

3 Jan Filed under activism, bed-stuy, closed, community space, nonprofit. 13 Comments.

neighborhood: bed-stuy | space type: community space | active: 2009–2011 | links: facebook, twitter, tumblr

update: I am really sad to add an update on the closing of this terrific space. In March of 2011, the Brooklyn Free …