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Co-Working at The Yard

February 8, 2012 By AP Smith Leave a Comment

Photo by Ashley Corbin-Teich

The Yard is a creative co-working space at 33 Nassau Avenue, on the second floor above Spritzenhaus. With month-to-month private office rentals designed for one to seven people, The Yard is already the workday home for a number of local entrepreneurs, writers, graphic designs and start-up ventures including Wanderfly, a personalized travel recommendation site, as well as the music aggregator The Hype Machine.

“We have so many talented, creative people here!” says Morris Levy, The Yard’s founder and manager. Levy is charismatic and charming, a born and raised Brooklynite with a quick vernacular to match.

Co-Op 87 Putting a Good Spin on Vinyl

December 8, 2011 By AP Smith Leave a Comment

The sidewalk outside the entrance to Co-Op 87,covered with crates and boxes of $1 records, feels like your old college buddy’s apartment: stockpiles of stuff that live where it lands. But inside there’s a sense of cozy calm, like a warm library. That is, if libraries played loud post-punk albums.

This new Guernsey Street record store is small but not sparse. Record bins flank visitors on all sides and new releases paired with rare lps line the walls. The back wall, painted like a chalkboard, features handwritten new release titles between two caricatured record store patrons. It’s all very, very endearing.