Looks Like The Williamsburg Urban Outfitters Got Its Liquor License
An illustration of Space Ninety 8, an Urban Outfitters “concept store,” which will be located at 98 N. 6th St. in Williamsburg. Image: New York magazine Williamsburg is well past the point of being a...
View ArticleWhole Foods: Gowanus Gets a Crash Course in the New One-Stop Shopping
Photo by Austin McAllister No. 5 Whole Foods Gowanus Gets a Crash Course in the New One-Stop Shopping It might seem a little strange that a borough full of some of the most worldly and jaded people on...
View ArticleWhole Foods Gowanus In Trouble With The Law (Again) Over The Coignet Building
Image: Gowanus Your Face Off Those of you who live in Gowanus or visit the Whole Foods there regularly may have noticed a lovely brick and concrete building right behind it. Well, a few years ago Whole...
View ArticleCoworking Company WeWork Opening First Brooklyn Location?
A WeWork office in Manhattan. Image: WeWork In case anyone had forgotten, a Whole Foods is indeed coming to Williamsburg. In fact, a whole lot of scary things are coming to that neighborhood (J. Crew,...
View ArticleSupermarket Shuffle: Aldi in East New York
Finally some good news in affordable food: An Aldi has opened in East New York. The international chain already operates stores in Rego Park, Sheepshead Bay, East Harlem, and the Bronx. That the...
View ArticleNo, Whole Foods Is Still Not Cheap
When you think about descriptors for Whole Foods, the word that pops to mind probably isn’t “cheap.” But that’s the image the pricey organic supermarket is hoping to project, and that’s, according to...
View ArticleGowanus: If You Build a Whole Foods, There Will Be a Children’s Tennis Club,...
This week in “They’re putting a what in Gowanus?” news, Court 16, a miniaturized tennis club for kids, has opened its doors on Baltic Street between Nevins Street and Third Avenue. Everything from the...
View ArticleBuzz in a Bottle: Harmless Harvest’s Coconut Coffee Water
Photo by Jane Bruce Harmless Harvest founders, Justin Guilbert and Douglas Riboud, first hatched their ecosystem-based business model in 2009, in order to create sustainability all the way from field...
View ArticleInside Small Batch Excess: Whole Foods Williamsburg Opens Today
As I type, Whole Foods Williamsburg will open its doors to the public in six minutes. Yesterday, before the big moment, we stopped in to tour the 51,000 square foot chain, which now has 460 locations,...
View ArticleA Two-Pronged Approach To Survive The L Train-Wreck
While some think the L Train shut down will impact Brooklyn’s working class and have serious ramifications on the class that struggles most to live and work in this city at all, the rare few have...
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