Just a few miles from East Hampton, Springs is a nabe that’s become renowned for many things in the East End. For locals, it’s where the artists live. For artists, it’s the only place in the Hamptons where they can concentrate and get away from the deafening wealth and celeb-fueled buzz a scant few miles [...]
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Brookline’s Coolidge Corner Theatre: So much more than just a cinema
This weekend, instead of feeding the Harry Potter machine at a big-box Lowes, consider a more interactive, engaging, and nuanced evening in Brookline at The Coolidge.
Jamaica Plain’s Eliot School Teaches the Head, Heart, and Hands
Ask most children what their parents do at work all day, and you’re likely to end up with a list of vague-sounding tasks amounting to no tangible proof of work. What does the work of a systems analyst look like anyway? Like a Rube Goldberg machine under construction? Like planet mobile with alternative orbits? At [...]
The High Line: An Urban Sky Park Manifests and Unites the Nabes Below
A friend pointed out to me that New York, the most vertical city in the world, is taking its next big step in moving more of our life to the sky. What does this mean for New York communities? Perhaps the High Line Park, a new vein of transport and recreation alive with culture and [...]
The World’s Graffiti Mecca is Just Across the East River
If you’ve taken the 7 train to Queens then you’ve seen the dizzying graffiti collage at 5 Pointz Aerosol Art Center, the largest legal, curated tag spot in New York City. Artists from all over the world travel to Long Island City to exhibit their skills on the 20o,000-square-foot factory complex. Inside, Crane Studios offers [...]
