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After a ton of hard work, we launched a new streaming platform called NYPhil+ this week. It’s a subscription platform with great concert footage from the New York Philharmonic:
NYPhil+ subscribers have exclusive, unparalleled access to our Orchestra’s digital concerts. Historic telecasts with musical legends, decades of concerts on audio, newly recorded concerts, and more will be available exclusively to NYPhil+ subscribers.
You can check it out at plus.nyphil.org.
After 22 years, I shut down FREEwilliamsburg this month. Deemed the “Grandaddy of Brooklyn Blogs” by Brick Underground and an “essential New York blog” by New York, I can’t believe I kept this thing going for over two decades. I feel sad and elated all at once. I have lots to say about it in this farewell post.
BrooklynVegan had some nice words:
BrooklynVegan is approaching our 16th year, which seems old, so it’s crazy to think that fellow Brooklyn culture blog Free Williamsburg — a site I was definitely a fan of in 2004 when I started BrooklynVegan — is today calling it a day after 22 years. Check out their long goodbye letter, full of great Williamsburg memories.
I’ve been touched all week hearing from fans and contributors, dating back to the 90s. Fare thee well, Freewilly! We had a good run.
Here’s a little ditty about Bernie and Hillary. Boy, things are getting tense. I hope you read it all, but if not, here’s the highlight:
ultimately, progressives acquiesced to supporting sanders when warren decided not to run, [Read more…]
This year was a good one for music. Admittedly, 2013’s Antenna to the Afterworld by Sonny & The Sunsets was the record I listened to the more than any other — a newer discovery for me, but thankfully I found time for a few others.
These are the new records I enjoyed the most in 2015. [Read more…]
In case you missed the news, Citi Bike is coming to North Brooklyn and Long Island City this month.
Citi Bike expansion will begin in August with a first wave of new stations including the first Queens stations, in Long Island City, along with expansion further into Brooklyn with new stations in Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Bedford-Stuyvesant. The announcement is the first phase of a dramatic expansion plan that will double the size of the popular bike share network from 6,000 to 12,000 bikes over the course of two years as it grows across New York City…
The first wave of station installations will include 91 new stations in Bedford Stuyvesant, Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Long Island City, followed by an additional 48 stations on the Upper East and Upper West Sides, from 59th Street to 86th Street, starting in the fall. DOT and Motivate arrived at the station locations through more than a hundred meetings with the public and community stakeholders through the course of several years.
To honor the occasion, I served up some neighborhood highlights like Skinny Dennis, East River Park, Shea Stadium, and The City Reliquary, for newcomers to check out. Read them all at expansion.citibikenyc.com.
Visit my Brooklyn-based culture guide, FREE Williamsburg.
Garrison Keillor discusses my work on The Writer’s Almanac.