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The Curator of “Brooklyn Look” - Jennifer Mankins

Jennifer Mankins, who owns the three Bird boutiques in Brooklyn, at her South Williamsburg store, where she stocks approachable pieces by independent designers.

Bird (women’s and men’s fashion) | Williamsburg, Brooklyn
At 2,500 square feet, the Williamsburg outpost of Bird is nearly three times the size of Jennifer Mankins’s two existing Brooklyn shops. Inside is a calming expanse of pale yellow pine wood (salvaged from a warehouse), steel, brick and natural light. The clean, Scandinavian-inspired interior is home to a newly expanded line of women’s wear. In addition to her signature labels like Vena Cava and Alexander Wang, Mankins is adding Thakoon and animal-friendly accessories by Stella McCartney to the mix, plus shoes, bags and her biggest offering of men’s wear yet. Mankins, who collaborated with the architect Ole Sondresen, says that if all goes according to plan, this Bird shop will be the first LEED-certified clothing store in New York City (the City’s official Green Building Ratings System).
203 Grand Street (between Bedford and Driggs avenues); (718) 388-1655; shopbird.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/27/fashion/jennifer-mankins-and-the-brooklyn-aesthetic.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

Pivot Point: Nike Pop up store located in Brooklyn (Barclays Center)

Pop-up retail shop in Brooklyn, NY celebrates the iconic Air Force 1 and the release of the new Lunar Force 1.

In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Nike Air Force 1, Nike introduces Pivot Point, a New York hub of all things Nike Air Force 1 this season, open for a limited time at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.  

The space takes inspiration from the iconic Air Force 1, using authentic accents and design elements of the original and the new Nike Lunar Force 1. Pivot Point will offer a select assortment of Nike product, including the Nike Lunar Force 1, NIKE+ FuelBands and Nike Bespoke, the innovative by appointment only experience that takes individual design to new heights with an unparalleled, creative individual design experience.   

Pivot Point is located at 620 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217 and will open to the public beginning Dec. 11 through Dec. 23 from 12 PM – 7 PM daily. 

In addition, Nike designed a 32x24x12 interactive LED lit Nike Air Force 1 30th Anniversary shoebox placed in the plaza of the Barclays Center.  Visitors wearing Nike Air Force shoes will gain immediate entrance to the shoebox where their photo will be taken and can be shared through social media.

http://nikeinc.com/news/nike-introduces-pivot-point#/inline/16214

Switchel, an “American heritage” beverage from Vermont, you can find at Prospect Restaurant (Brooklyn)

The brand was born from a recipe originally created by farmers to quench their thirst during hay harvest season, now produced with all local ingredients and bottled in craft mason jars.

The restaurant also recommends Switchel, straight up or in a cocktail, with its burger. Get your elixir at Prospect. For more information and contact information visit their Facebook page.

Brooklyn´s food flea market moves to Manhattan: First to Central Park now to Bowery Whole food stop!!

The food Market opened in April of 2008. There were enough articles about the new food scene, Brooklyn, and the Flea and even the food at the market that it snowballed. They had 10 food vendors the first day, 20 the second year, and then 35 by 2010. By the end of 2010 they were out of room for the space allotted for food. So, when they got the space in Williamsburg for the Flea they really wanted us to do two days of programming.  So, they decided to open Smorgasburg at that Williamsburg location. Now, inevitably a lot of the media focuses on the food.

Smorgasburg, the famed Brooklyn Flea food market where we get our weekly pupusa and artisanal popsicle fix, is partnering with Whole Foods for a one-month experiment in delicious local food.  Together they’ve curated a group of vendors to setup shop for one month at the Bowery store, which opens today with Cemita’s Mexican Sandwiches and will serve lunch and dinner 7 days a week.

Stop by and taste for yourself.

Whole Foods Market Bowery
95 East Houston St.
New York, NY 10002

http://www.ediblemanhattan.com/uncategorized/smorgasburg-opens-outpost-today-at-whole-foods-bowery/

“In Plain Sight,” the The Street Museum of Art (SMoA) is challenging the notion of sequestering street art to a museum by bringing the museum out to the streets. Featuring work from artists like Sweet Toot, Paul Richard, and Elle, the streets of Williamsburg are currently lined with a variety of accessible pieces.

“In Plain Sight” is on view in Williamsburg through Fall 2012.

Le Fooding Brooklyn Fling celebrates these creative communities and the chefs leading the way.

2. Campfire session #02

September 23, 2012

To bookend Le Grand Fooding NY 2012, MasterCard invites you to the Williamsburg Flea Market for an unforgettable nocturnal fireside adventure. Check it out, the lineup prepared with Downtown Records is insane: Mike D (DJ set), Andrew Wyatt of Miike Snow (performance) and special guests such as Dave 1 of Chromeo (DJ set) and others… To please your bellies: The Brooklyn Flea food vendors (The Meat Hook, Mile End Delicatessen, Choncho’s Tacos, Brooklyn Bangers by Saul Bolton, and PizzaMoto) will host the guest stars of the Grand Fooding NY (Inaki Aizpitarte of the Chateaubriand, Paris; the Young Turks, London;  Daniel Rose of Spring, Paris) as well as Danny Bowien of Mission Chinese Food  (San Francisco & New York City) and Fredrik Berselius of Frej (Brooklyn, NY).
Last but not least, while Maison Premiere’s  Maxwell Britten (Brooklyn, NY) will prepare exclusive Jameson-based  concoctions, the “Picasso of pastry” Pierre Hermé (Paris, Tokyo)  will serve a very special dessert—a bite of fruit  with the San Pellegrino Sparkling Fruit Beverages.September 23 at 7 p.m. @ the Williamsburg Brooklyn Flea.

Details: Standard ($60) and MasterCard® VIP ($100) passes for purchase
including food tasting, two Jameson-based creations, live music, and more,
reserved for MasterCard cardholders. Twenty percent of each ticket sold goes to Action Against Hunger | ACF-International. Address: Williamsburg Brooklyn Flea, 27 N. 6th Street, Brooklyn 11211.

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Taste artisanal whisky in Kings County Distillery in Brooklyn.

The tasting took place at the end of a recent tour of the distillery’s new space in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Indeed, the visitors found the 80-proof liquor to be sweeter and more drinkable than what they expected from moonshine, a spirit whose name harkens back to illegal backwoods concoctions.

For about two years, they distilled in a small studio space in East Williamsburg. In 2011, the city, seeking new tenants for the Navy Yard, invited the Kings County Distillery to take over the Paymaster Building, which had recently been renovated.

In addition to standard moonshine and bourbon, patrons sampled Kings County’s chocolate “flavored” whiskey, which was released in February 2012. The popular product is flavored with ground-up cacoa husks from Mast Brothers Chocolate. The result is an intense dark and not-at-all-sweet cocoa-infused spirit.

http://www.coolhunting.com/food-drink/kings-county-distillery.php