Posts tagged greenpoint

12 Excellent Scotch Cocktails in NYC

Scotch cocktails are having a moment right now. They’re not everywhere yet, but some of the city’s top bars and restaurants are serving original Scotch-based drinks that are way more interesting than your average hot toddy or Rusty Nail. Here’s a guide to the best Scotch cocktails in NYC. (via Eater NY)

Where to Eat Near the NYC Marathon

The annual ING NYC Marathon is going down this Sunday, November 6, and while many of us are gearing up to cheer on our favorite runners, the thought of all that calorie-shredding physical exertion is making us hungry, natch. Check out this handy Marathon dining guide, with recommendations by mile marker, because let’s face it  - all that cheering really works up an appetite. (via Zagat)

A Bookstore and a Hub for Readers

Any bookstore can sell you a book. But if you’re looking for a bookstore where you can find a date who shares your literary tastes, see a magic show, join a basketball league and have a cartoonist scrawl a tattoo on you with a permanent marker, the field narrows a bit.

Specifically, it narrows to Word, a cheerful shop in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, that not only stocks books but also strives to create a community of people who love them. (Read more at NY Times)

WORD
126 Franklin Street, Greenpoint

Brooklyn is the Coolest City on the Planet

Don’t take that as a knock on Manhattan, which is doing just fine. But for the first time since, well, ever, you can spend every New York minute of your trip on the far side of the East River and never feel like you’re missing out. Here’s how to explore the place where everything’s happening before it’s happening. (via GQ)

Get Baked!

Think you make a good apple pie? You may not even be making an apple pie! But you’d better be if you want to even compete at the Ninth Annual Apple Pie Contest at Enid’s starting at 5pm TODAY.

Anyone, and everyone, is invited to bring a homemade pie with which to wow this year’s panel of judges now that the 50-contestant cap that was put in place to save the judges’ bellies has been lifted this year. Awards are given out for best crust, best looking and general greatness! (via The Brooklyn Paper)

Enid’s
560 Manhattan Avenue, Greenpoint
Sunday, October 16th at 5pm. 

Plan Ahead: Bring To Light

Bring to Light is a free nighttime public festival of art in New York City that takes place simultaneously with “nuit blanche” events in cities around the world. Inviting emerging and established artists to make site-specific installations of light, sound, performance and projection art, the event creates an immersive spectacle for thousands of visitors to re-imagine public space and civic life. Bring to Light will transform streets, parks and the industrial waterfront of Greenpoint, Brooklyn set against dramatic views of the Manhattan skyline.

Bring To Light
India Street Pier/Waterfront, Greenpoint
Saturday, October 1st, 6pm

A Labor Day in Brooklyn

If you have three days off this Labor Day weekend, don’t let them go to waste. Here are The Brooklyn Paper’s picks for sending out the summer right. We’re definitely gonna hit up Disco Bowl and the already mentioned West Indian Day Parade!

5 Borough Ladies Arm Wrestling Competition

Fierce characters like Jackie O’Nasty and Bonnie Collide go arm to arm in overly dramatic battles of strength in competitions for charity organized by the 5 Borough Ladies Arm Wrestling group.  This Thursday the group is inviting 16 ladies to compete in a winner-takes-all tournament.  Competitors will get $1 off drinks all night long and a chance at the prize money.  However, the real fun is watching these ladies duke it out!

The Diamond
43 Franklin Street, Greenpoint
Thursday, August 4th at 8:15pm
Get more details or enter the competition.

$30 for 12 German Beers at 12 Bars

From 1870-1920, Brooklyn had nearly 50 German style breweries and a Brewer’s Row with 12 breweries in a 12 block area. Prohibition (1920-1933) came along and dealt a devastating blow, but we’re finally back. The Brewers Association recently announced there are now more breweries in the US than before Prohibition. To celebrate, BeerMenus decided to bring the rich tradition of German beer back to Brooklyn.

On Saturday June 25th and/or Sunday June 26th from Noon to 8pm, BeerMenus is hosting a German Beer pub crawl. The crawl features 12 bars with outdoor seating in Williamsburg/Greenpoint, a modern day Brewer’s Row if you will, and 12 German-style beers. Each bar will pour you a pint of one of the featured beers. Get your tickets now!