Demolition has started up again at the S.W. Bowne Grain Storehouse, a historic Red Hook industrial building that activists have been trying to save. After a hiatus of more than two months because of a Stop Work Order issued by the city Buildings Department, a demolition crew is back on the job at the 1880s […]
Meet the clown who saved Lehigh Valley Barge #79 and turned it into a floating museum. When I say clown, I don’t mean he’s a fool. I mean he was a professional juggler who studied at Jacques Lecoq’s school for physical theater in Paris. The legendary Lecoq gave him the name Apollo, but Brooklyn knows […]
The lunchtime crowd in DUMBO took turns cranking two giant, solar-powered flipbooks installed at DUMBO’s Pearl Street Triangle on Thursday. As the pages flipped, the individual drawings merged into an animated image, delighting participants. The whimsical mechanisms, called FlipNYC, were put together by high school-aged youth fellows at Beam Center, who worked with younger kids […]