Will I ever be able to run 26+ miles? Probably not; I would look like #18416 after about five minutes. However, it was pretty awesome to watch the competitors in this weekend's New York City marathon tear through the Brooklyn wing of their long trek.

From the alums who brought NYC the Freegan Fashion Show comes Surreal Estate, a new community space planned for 15 Thames Street in Brooklyn, NY. The project includes several recent alums of Wesleyan.

Check out their Myspace page:

www.myspace.com/surrealestate

From their Myspace page: 

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Santogold, a.k.a. Santi White, of the Class of 1996, has been prepping her pyrotechnics for ten years and now she's blowing up Brooklyn, and she certainly promises to "deliver the explosion" to the rest of the U.S. before summer's end.

Check her out on Myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/santogold

The 123 Community Space in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn houses a 'zine library that attracted Elizabeth McClellan '09 and Matt Valades '08 to stop by and check out the reading area of 123 this summer. Matt says that the library is, "mostly filled with activism and social cause related 'zines a

By 6 o'clock on Wednesday evening, the parking lot shared by Bed-Stuy's New Testament Church of God and the 123 Community Space looks like a junkyard. Wheels, cranksets, frames, tools, and chains are strewn in piles over about twenty parking spaces. Several bicycles stand upside down as nine-year-olds wielding wr

Several days ago, The New York Daily News reported on a two-headed turtle that was found in Brooklyn. Since then, it has been stolen, proving once again that Brooklynites can't have nice things.

Last night Death Cab For Cutie stopped at McCarren Park Pool in Brooklyn, NY.  It was my first time at the venue, and it is already one of my favorites.  Despite the acoustics being slightly less than stellar, the atmosphere was so relaxed that it seemed more like a block party