Car-service price check: Cobble Hill
Baby's night out on Smith St.? Could run you $10 extra getting home. This week we turned our car-service lens on Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens. The area as a whole is pricey, with a trip to JFK...
View ArticleSunday special: $27 Brooklyn Bridge tattoos
Hankering for a permanent reminder of your love affair with Brooklyn? Sunday’s your deeply-discounted chance, courtesy of the inking wizards at Brooklyn Tattoo. The Brooklyn Bridge turns 127 this...
View ArticleBar of the Day: Bar Great Harry
This is the latest in our series on the venues featured in the Brokelyn Beer Book. With its prodigious on-tap and bottled selection, Bar Great Harry in Carroll Gardens is about the beer, plain and...
View ArticleBeer garden declares start to summer, knows target audience
Consider us told. Photo via alibrady12 This picture is too perfect not to post: Announcing the seasonal opening of Gowanus Yacht Club, home to cheap pitchers, cheaper mysterious “Duff” beer, veggie...
View ArticleWin a party at Clover Club from Google NY
Clover Club is probably nicer than your living room. First Google New York bought you brunch. Now they want to buy you drinks! So they’re throwing a speakeasy party at Smith Street’s fancy Clover Club,...
View ArticleRooms at the NU Hotel are $116 on Jetsetter
Dig the loft bed in the corner! Jetsetter, the luxe hotel discount site that makes us weep for Machu Picchu hideaways and beachfront huts in Bali, features its first Brooklyn property this week, and...
View ArticleStart your summers: Gowanus Yacht Club is open for the season!
Not their best sign, but it does the job I have been walking past Gowanus Yacht Club every day of this abnormally outdoor-drinking-friendly spring wondering “WTF they were waiting for?” New taps...
View ArticleBars We Love: Go after a good time at Hunter’s!
From left to right, signature cocktails “The Duneagle Castle” and “Handsome Hound” look pretty smokin’ together! via Hunter’s on Instagram Hunter’s Bar 213 Smith St. (Baltic and Butler) Boerum Hill...
View ArticleWhen was the last time you actually walked into a bank?
From one TD to another: Just cool it ok. Via Amy Nicholson. We joke about the city being taken over by Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts, but banks might be the more pernicious forces making over our city....
View ArticleThe 20 best cheap things to do this weekend, slightly spoopy edition
Conjure the moon, feast for fall, look to the heavens, protect your melon, soup du jour, dress up your doggo, and more ways to fall through the weekend.
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