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A heads up if you’re coming to the Brainery anytime between June 20 and next March: Smith 9 Street is closed for the next 8 or so months while they make it super fancy, so you’ll have to hoof it from Carroll Street. It sounds bad, but we promise it’s really not that much farther, and it's a lovely walk.
Here’s a handy map to guide you, and all the official info from the MTA.
Gowanus area dwellers, this ones's for you!
On June 22 and 23, Living City Block is hosting two days of community innovation workshops at the Gowanus Studio Space (our former home!) at 166 7th Street. You're invited to learn from sustainability leaders and collaborate with other local community members on ways to make the neighborhood more liveable, walkable, and awesome.
There'll be presentations, discussions, and lots of brainstorming (not...
We have this lovely, sunny space in Carroll Gardens that's mostly empty during the day, and we want to put it to better use. Specifically, we want to open it for you all to work on projects of all sorts—whether it’s something on your computer or something hands on that requires a bit more space than your apartment provides.
We’re thinking it’ll be social and laid back, with lunches and snacks and all of that, and...
Coworking is a bit of a pet obsession of mine, for really no reason at all. There are lots and lots of neat new spaces popping up all around Brooklyn and the city -- a pretty inclusive list of which you can see here -- but we've been lucky enough to get the know the folks at a couple of them that are equally awesome. If you're in the market for some desk space that's not in your apartment or a coffee shop, we'd...
We've been busy prepping for classes by doing things like making impromptu trips to the oldest surviving structure in New York City (for our NYC history class), and making tons of seed paper for rewards to our (successful!) Kickstarter project, but that hasn't stopped us from doing a whole buncha other stuff too, all below:
Location Survey
Earlier this week, we asked you all to fill in a quick little survey and let us know...
