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Industry City Maker Spotlight: SASKIA

SASKIA owner Saskia de Vries in her Industry City store; Photo courtesy of SASKIAStarting a business is always a journey, but the jewelry brand SASKIA [https://shopsaskia.com/] began with a literal one. Seventeen years ago, Saskia de Vries and her now-husband and business partner Scott Kerns met waiting tables

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These Local Groups Working to End the Housing Crisis in Brooklyn Need Your Help

Grow Brooklyn worked with the Holmes family to save their Staten Island house after Mrs. Holmes passed away. Photo by Minnow Park PhotographyThis is a time of year Brooklynites are looking for ways to give back to their communities. Neighbors throughout the borough need help in a number of ways,

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How One New Yorker’s Legacy Helps Preserve Neglected City History

You may have heard of The Iceberg Metaphor as a way of thinking about culture — most of what influences behavior remains hidden to others or “below the surface.” The same can be said for New York City history. For all the history our city wears on its sleeve, much remains

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Industry City Maker Spotlight: ATH Studios

ATH Studios’ fabrication of Albino Shark for the artist Ashley Bickerton (2008); Photo via ATH StudiosSUNSET PARK – Nailing down exactly what ATH Studios [http://www.athstudios.com] does can be hard – even for founder Andrew Hunt. “We’re a weird mix of stuff. The senior members [of my staff] are

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Cybersecurity Has Over 300,000 Open Jobs — These Two Nonprofits Are Training Brooklynites To Fill Them

Photo Courtesy of NPowerDo a search of the term “data breach” and you’ll get a sense of how vulnerable companies of all kinds are to attack. And with that vulnerability comes a need for cybersecurity experts, people with the knowledge and skills to help defend against those attacks. Unfortunately,

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Industry City Spotlight: Brooklyn Oyster Dory

On a recent Saturday afternoon in mid-May, the corridor in Industry City’s Building 6 connecting 34th and 35th Streets was abuzz with activity. Fueled by a table full of homemade tamales, a group of Sunset Park middle school students were in the midst of their final push to finish

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Industry City Spotlight: ARV Sweets and Hana Kitchens

Photo credit: Avi GlicksteinOver the past six years, Industry City has become a dynamic environment for new and established businesses to thrive in South Brooklyn. Together, the more than 500 companies that now call the property home have formed an “innovation ecosystem” that fosters community and B2B collaboration, leading to

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Busy Parents, Let Hungryroot Be Your Healthy Food Concierge

Photo Credit: Avi GlicksteinAs a parent of two young kids, I’ve got limited time – and energy – for shopping and cooking. So I’m always on the lookout for ways to make getting those things done a little easier. As such, I’ve experimented with a variety of grocery-delivery and

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PJ Masks Live Heads Into Brooklyn To Save The Day This Weekend

Photo Courtesy of PJ Masks LiveSPONSORED: Weekend in the city, and a brave band of heroes is ready to face fiendish villains to stop them messing with your (Satur/Sun)day. If that slightly altered bit of narration sounds familiar, you probably have a PJ Masks fan living in your

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Industry City Maker Spotlight: Rich Brilliant Willing

Vitis Chandelier; Photo Via Rich Brilliant WillingSPONSORED: “We believe in the power of light to create atmosphere, that light has a profound influence on shaping the way we feel.” That’s how Theo Richardson describes the guiding principle behind the work of Rich Brilliant Willing [https://richbrilliantwilling.com] (RBW), the

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Plan The Ultimate Active Birthday Party At Aviator Sports

Photo Courtesy of Aviator SportsBirthdays are funny things. First of all, shouldn’t some of the celebrating be devoted to the person who gave birth (yay, moms!)? And speaking of celebrating, there are so many traditions around the world! And it seems that some birthdays are more common [http://thedailyviz.

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Industry City Maker Spotlight: David Stark Design

NYC Wedding; Photo Courtesy of David Stark DesignMost of the products being created by the tenants of Sunset Park’s Industry City are made to last (with the obvious exception of food). But one company there trades in the ephemeral. What they build are experiences. Founded (at least in its

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It’s The Dead Of Winter – The Best Time To Tour Aviator Sports’ Summer Camp!

Photo Courtesy of Aviator Sports and Events CenterOne of the shocks parents experience — certainly in Brooklyn but most likely all over – is how soon you need to start thinking about summer camp. The holidays are barely over and it’s in the single digits outside. Time to start scrambling for

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Industry City Maker Spotlight: Ombligo

Photo courtesy of OmbligoAcross the landscape of makers at Industry City, most businesses are creating products from scratch. They are fashion [/industry-city-maker-spotlight-malia-mills/] and industrial [/industry-city-maker-spotlight-roll-hill/] designers, instrument fabricators [/industry-city-maker-spotlight-fodera-guitars/], bakers [/industry-city-maker-spotlight-colson-patisserie/], and much more. Ombligo [https://ombligo.com/], however, does things differently – it is a REmaker. CEO and

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Aviator Sports Is There When The Great Outdoors Becomes Not So Great

SPONSORED – It’s pretty well known that kids don’t mind the cold [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5184405] as much their parents do. Visit any city playground on a weekday after school dismissal and you’ll probably see a bunch of kindergarteners being chased by

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Industry City Maker Spotlight: Colson Patisserie

Hubert the Bear, Colson’s financier bear, at his Industry City home; Photo by Avi GlicksteinThere’s a word that comes up a lot in speaking with the people who run businesses operating out of Industry City: community. It’s no different with Colson Patisserie [http://www.colsonpastries.com/]. “There

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Industry City Maker Spotlight: Fodera Guitars

Photo courtesy of Fodera GuitarsThe current incarnation of Industry City [https://industrycity.com/], Sunset Park’s manufacturing and technology hub, may have taken root in 2013 [https://www.6sqft.com/the-success-and-future-of-industry-city-as-told-by-its-innovative-manufacturing-tenants/] , but some tenants of the complex have been there longer than that. In the case of Fodera Guitars, a

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Aviator Sports Has Your Winter Covered With An Unlimited Monthly Skating Pass

Photo Courtesy of Aviator Sports and Events CenterIce skating has been a winter pastime in New York City since 1858 [https://hyperallergic.com/422185/160-years-of-ice-skating-in-new-york-city/] when the first dedicated rink opened on a lake near 72nd Street in Manhattan. Its popularity has only grown since then. Well, that chill in

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Life simplified: Click & Shop With Peapod

Photo Credit: Avi GlicksteinSPONSORED – For a variety of reasons, getting to the grocery store on a weekly or even bi-weekly basis can be hard. In my case, with two kids under 5, a freelance work-life to maintain, a spouse who works full-time, and grocery stores nearby that don’t always

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The Inner Elmo: Meet Sesame Street Live! Let’s Party! Cast Member KJ Williams

Photo Courtesy of Feld EntertainmentIn the imaginations of adults and children alike, the characters who live on Sesame Street loom large. If they’re a part of our childhood, then they kind of dominate our childhood. And at a certain point, we discover — or are told — that those characters have

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This Far From Average Grocer Now Delivers!

Photo Credit: Avi GlicksteinPROVISIONS [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/provision]: a stock of needed materials or supplies; especially: a stock of food. It’s also an apt name for The Greene Grape [http://www.greenegrape.com/]’s grocery on Fulton Street in Ft. Greene. The owners and staff of the

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After August Comes SepMEMBER at Crunch Flatbush

Gym membership is a pretty personal thing. Everyone is looking for something different. But like being a member of anything, when you find “your people” you’re there for the long haul. Crunch Flatbush [https://www.crunch.com/locations/flatbush] is quickly establishing itself as not just another fitness option

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Aviator’s After-School Program Helps Kids Soar

Photo Courtesy of Aviator Sports CenterWith 1.1 million students, New York City’s public school system is the largest in the country. At any one time, about one out of every 300 Americans is a New York City public school student. And the transition from daycare, homecare, or preschool

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Industry City Maker Spotlight: M Factory

via Industry CityUnlike the other Industry City [https://industrycity.com/] tenants we’ve profiled here, M Factory [http://www.mfactory.us/] did not move from somewhere else. It’s always been housed in Industry City [/todays-links-whole-foods-sinking-towards-gowanus-canal-free-phone-calls-at-new-york-jails-more/] , ever since being created by Modo Eyewear [https://www.modo.com/] a year and