In Case You Missed It

Made in Brooklyn, Made in Lieu

May 8, 2012 In Case You Missed It
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Sometimes the price-point in New York can be frustrating. Everything seems to cost so much money. $15 for a cocktail, $15 for a burger – that’s $30 and the night’s not even started! What’s someone to do if they still want to look good? Made in Brooklyn, Made in Lieu. Handmade, locally designed unisex shirts. [...]

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Nina Choi, the Memo Bandit

May 1, 2012 In Case You Missed It
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Spring has sprung and all of a sudden it hits you. Weddings. Mother’s Day. Baby showers, housewarmings, birthdays. The list just goes on and on. A card’s a card right? Just paper and an envelope? Not the case with the Memo Bandit. Nina Choi’s whimsical cards contain lots of surprises: a decoder or a secret message [...]

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Put a Hat on it

April 9, 2012 In Case You Missed It
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‘Twas a lovely weekend all around and vintage aficionado Ricky Becker – famously referred to as “that superstar vintage seller on the left as soon as you walk in” – had decked the halls (ceiling to be precise) with bowlers, bonnets and more. Fair maidens and gents alike should heed the call of the season [...]

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Say It Loud: Alis Volat Propriis

April 5, 2012 In Case You Missed It
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Ahoy! Molly your friendly Williamsburg market manager here! You know what’s amazing? When you seen a designer grow. Now, I’ve been helping to steer the ship in Williamsburg for a year and I have seen so many people pass through, but Afshaan Rahman is one of those people you just hope keeps coming back. Her [...]

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I Want My Pie!

March 29, 2012 In Case You Missed It
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Sweet tooth? More like “sweet teeth.” We’ve been getting more than the recommended daily pie allowance since Meghan Daly of Daly Pie has been setting up shop at the market. There are pies for every season: vegan hand pies with delicious fillings (they don’t taste like your dad’s vegan treat!), more traditional pies with fillings like [...]

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Who Shot Kendall Holmes?

March 27, 2012 In Case You Missed It
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Ask any Williamsburg weekend warm weather lover of their fondest memories of last season and Kendall Holmes, the man behind the brew of Stand & Deliver’s mobile Stumptown coffee cart, is sure to come up. Not only were his stylings the subject of a Time Out New York feature on stylish Artists & Fleas vendors [...]

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From the LES with Love

March 21, 2012 In Case You Missed It
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@mollsrawks is back with her dose of In Case You Missed It love. This week, she riffs on the Lower East Side artist collective Con-Artists Collective. I’ve gotten spoiled. With all the great art, artists and creatives coming out of Brooklyn, I’ve kind of glossed over the people doing awesome stuff in Manhattan. Might also [...]

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Fascinated with Flow

March 14, 2012 In Case You Missed It
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I’ve been fascinated with flow for as long as I can remember. Where do people walk, where do they stop, why do they stop, what do they do when they stop. It’s not just a retail thing, though it’s no coincidence that it’s uniquely more of an urban thing than not. After all, both are [...]

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A Picture Worth A Thousand Words

March 7, 2012 In Case You Missed It
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Folks may recognize Williamsburg photographer Teddy Telles from the people he has shot around the way. We came across his pop-up photo booth this Winter at Union Pool and were immediately drawn in. Between the props – an old picture frame, some vintage aviators, a mustache, a men’s straw bowler pimp hat straight out of [...]

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Brooklyn Curated: Small Home

February 22, 2012 In Case You Missed It
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Life is in the details. And life in New York can sometimes feel larger than life and all about the details. If ever there was an enabler of that elegant truth, it would be the magical and artfully inspired eye of Julia Small and smallhome. She infuses new meaning into all things reclaimed, salvaged and [...]

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Cool Kids on Kickstarter

February 20, 2012 In Case You Missed It
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Nice shout-out to some friends from last selling season making their Kickstarter dreams come true. The New York Times featured the campaigns of Liz & Zeph and the Snap Truck we’ve all been waiting for since their days serving up the finest Chicago-style dawgs this side of Lake Michigan (the avocado fries are more mighty [...]

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Return to Craft: Brooklyn Artist Boosterism

February 15, 2012 In Case You Missed It
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I just read a FastCompany interview with David Gensler, the man behind Brooklyn-based design label and fashion house Serum Versus Venom (SVSV) and it has my head blowing up. For one thing, David is a seasoned designer and industry veteran. But the idea of being part of the industry is what set the wheels in [...]

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