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bushwick music studios
neighborhood: east williamsburg | space type: music venue | active: 2009–2010 | links: myspace, facebook Bushwick Music Studios was an underground music venue in the heart of the East Williamsburg...
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silent barn
neighborhood: bushwick | space type: music space | active since: 2005 | links: website, facebook, twitter, myspace update spring 2013: The Barn is back! Now in Bushwick, and bigger, more diverse, and...
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jerkhaus
neighborhood: sunset park | space type: music & living space | active: 2004–2011 | links: none (sorry!) The Jerkhaus is an incredibly lived-in communal-housing and punk-show space. They’ve had...
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newsonic loft
neighborhood: williamsburg | space type: music & parties | active: 2000–2011 | links: website all photos by Maximus Comissar Newsonic was terrific. It was way way out at the edge of South...
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shea stadium
neighborhood: east williamsburg | space type: music space | active since: 2009 | links: website, facebook There is something magical about the little corner of East Williamsburg south of Grand Street...
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death by audio
neighborhood: williamsburg | space type: music venue | active since: 2007 | links: website, myspace I’ve been to Death By Audio a few dozen times, but somehow I always forget how cool it is. My...
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monster island
neighborhood: williamsburg | space type: art gallery, studios, venue | active: 2004–2011 It feels a bit trite to talk about the demise of Williamsburg cool, an inevitability that only the most obtuse...
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greenroom brooklyn
neighborhood: bushwick | space type: apartment & party space | active since: 2010 | links: website, facebook, twitter Self-described as “Brooklyn’s underground launchpad for performing artists,”...
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vaudeville park
space type: art & music venue | neighborhood: williamsburg | active: 2008–2013 | links: website, facebook, twitter Vaudeville Park is a plucky arts venue with wildly diverse programming. It sits...
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fort useless
neighborhood: bushwick | space type: music & events | active since: 2009 | links: website, facebook, twitter In a dense (and getting denser!) corner of Bushwick, Fort Useless, a DIY show space...
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body actualized center
neighborhood: bushwick | space type: community space, yoga studio | active since: 2011 | links: website, facebook, twitter Body Actualized Center for Cosmic Living is a new space in Bushwick that has...
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dead herring
space type: apartment & music | neighborhood: williamsburg | active: 2007–2013 | links: myspace, facebook, twitter For most of its run, Dead Herring—an apartment that sometimes doubled as a DIY...
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gemini & scorpio loft
neighborhood: gowanus | space type: art & events | active since: 2011 | links: website, facebook, twitter, flickr G&S Glitter Ball, NYE 2013 (photo by Linus Gelber) For ten years, Gemini &...
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silent barn redux
neighborhood: ridgewood | space type: music, art, events | active since: 2013 | links: website, facebook, twitter By now everyone probably knows the storied history of the Silent Barn. The band...
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brooklyn lyceum
space type: performance venue | neighborhood: park slope | active since: 1910 | links: website, facebook, twitter This is by far the oldest space I’ve written about. It was built in 1910 as a public...
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exapno (metropolitan exchange building)
neighborhood: downtown brooklyn | space type: music coworking | open since: 2010 | links: website, facebook, twitter Founded by husband-and-wife composers Lainie and Jascha, Exapno is a coworking space...
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285 kent ave
space type: music venue | neighborhood: williamsburg | active since: 2010–2014 | links: twitter Update, January 2014: No one expected 285 Kent to last forever, and news of its closing was just...
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the swamp
[I’m counting down to the release of the Brooklyn Spaces book by doing one mini-post per day, sharing teasers of some of the places you’ll find in it.] neighborhood: east williamsburg | space type:...
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