Local Businesses & Local Color

by Jenni Walkowiak Smorgasburg is arguably the best summer food festival in New York City. The “largest weekly open-air food market in America” (smorgasburg.com), Smorgasburg boasts fare from 100 local vendors every weekend from 11 AM- 6 PM April- November, rain or shine. Every Saturday, you can get your grub on the Williamsburg waterfront at […]

by Brittany Bellinger You know that it’s summer here at the Brooklyn Creative League when the Bric Celebrate Brooklyn festival draft is announced. We are a proud sponsor of this program. Last year was my first time attending Celebrate Brooklyn with tickets from BCL and having access to the Friends tent. It was an incredible […]

Check out the annual BKLYN DESIGNS show from May 5-8 at Greenpoint’s Brooklyn Expo Center. Here’s what Christopher Farrell, one of the show’s producer has to say, “For the first time, the show will kick off the first weekend of the NYCxDESIGN initiative (the official citywide celebration of design from May 3 – 24) , offering […]

I was all in the second I came across photographer Miska Draskoczy’s Kickstarter campaign to support Gowanus Wild (https://gowanuswildbook.com), a book of photographs exploring nature and wilderness in the Gowanus Canal, our beloved Superfund site. So I ponied up $50 to help Draskoczy get his project off the ground (and secure a signed hardcover copy […]