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4 Unexpected Ways to Use Your Coworking Space

Coworking spaces have evolved beyond your typical, everyday work hubs, and many provide community members with some pretty cool perks. At BCL, not only do we maintain an environment conducive to both productivity and creativity, but we also offer some lesser-known resources that we encourage you to take advantage of. From facilitating collaborative writers’ rooms […]

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Honest Materials, Built With Care: How We Designed a Space that Looks, Feels, and Functions Great

It’s been over a decade since I asked my old friend, the award-winning interior designer
Malcolm James Kutner, for guidance with Brooklyn Creative League, but I remember his advice like it was yesterday: “Use honest materials.”

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How to Make a Business Case for Coworking: 5 Tips to Help You Prepare

Want your boss to pay for a coworking space? Coworking can be a great complement to work-from-home. Find out how in five steps.

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Meet 4 New Coworking Community Members Focused on People-Centric Work

Now that Fall is here, we’re back to the busy bustle of Brooklyn! The kids are in school and we’ve got a renewed focus on getting our tasks done. In fact, things have picked up here at our offices in Gowanus as members come in more consistently. BCL prides itself on being a coworking space […]

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Member Expertise: Lynn Gaffney Architect on the Benefits of Cohousing Communities

Lynn Gaffney is one of several architects who work out of Brooklyn Creative League. With over 25 years of experience, Lynn and her practice have worked on a variety of projects. But her latest interest lies in designing and developing cohousing, a form of social housing that has gained popularity in the United States over […]

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Reasons We Love New York City: Stories of Resiliency During Crisis by TYTHE Design and Aly Miller

Here at Brooklyn Creative League, we love hearing about how our coworking members collaborate with one another. It happens all the time, but this particular project—Reasons We Love New York City: Stories of Resiliency During Crisis—merited a deeper dive (you can find the Screen Reader version here). This past summer, as New York City was […]

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Coworking During the Pandemic: Members Share Their Positive Experience

“Although coworking has been dramatically impacted by COVID-19 and the financial crisis, it’s likely to remain a viable and important alternative for a variety of user types in the years to come,” says Cushman & Wakefield in their August 2020 report, The Changing Role of Coworking Workplace Ecosystem. While that assessment is good news, Brooklyn […]

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BCL’s 2020 Health & Safety Plan

Find a summary of BCL’s 2020 Health and Safety plan. It’s a set of operational, behavioral, and design changes we will be implementing as we begin to open up.

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Tips and Tools to Help You Work From Home: 3 Resource Guides

Through this difficult time for humanity, small business owners, and entrepreneurs, BCL still remains open. We’re here to serve and help you run your business! But given the social distancing mandate, we have also encouraged you all to work from home to slow the spread of the virus, and we’re so thankful to see our community come together and do what’s safe.

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BCL is Here for You: Coworking During a Time of Social Distancing

As New York City escalates the response to the spread of coronavirus, Team BCL is committed to being as timely, transparent, and safe as we possibly can in our management of the crisis. Here’s what we’re doing.

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