Why Is There a Huge, Half-Built Subway Station in Williamsburg Covered in...
Over the weekend, the Underbelly Project exploded across the Internet. The work of dozens of street artists, they had taken over an abandoned subway station somewhere in the city and turned it into an...
View ArticleKeep Your Bikes To Yourselves! South Williamsburg Shuns Bike Share
She looks jealous to us. (NY Post) When the blue Citibank Citi Bikes—thank you again impossibly selfless, unfailingly generous corporate overlords!—start rolling out of their stations, there is one...
View ArticleWeapons of Mass Construction: Satmars’ Secret to Keeping Housing Prices Low
The balconies on Wallabout Street are for religion, not pleasure. Strolling down Bedford Avenue, you’re greeted by a solid wall of new six-story brick buildings. The apartments are spacious and cheap...
View ArticleGovernor’s Office Rumored to Be Negotiating Sale of Marcy Armory to Satmar...
Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons. The Satmar Hasidim of South Williamsburg have their own schools, their own ambulance service, their own police and their own courts. And soon, they may have their own...
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