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In April 2012, the WG ran a story about local manufacturer/inventor Eric Mingrino, “Machine Man: Manufacturing Superhero in Greenpoint.”
We’d like to update the story, to showcase Mingrino’s latest invention, a device that addresses the increasing and unnecessarily high incidences of accidental injuries in gyms across the United States related to the sport of weight lifting.
Beastanetics is a high intensity, interval training program, which improves stamina, strength, speed, agility, power, and mental toughness, and it’s coming to McCarren Park. Show up Monday morning at 9 and try it with a free trial session!
Brought to you by PunkRope creator Tim Haft, Beastanetics Boot Camp is a 6-week (2 classes per week), high-intensity, interval-training program, which utilizes functional, triplanar body weight movements to increase stamina, strength, power, speed, agility, and mental toughness. Work and rest periods are kept short to maximize fitness gains.
Drop-ins are encouraged: Virgin Beasts are welcome to a one-time free trial (space permitting). Thereafter the drop-in fee is $15 per class. Drop them an email if you’d like to arrange to drop in to a class.
Brooklyn Crew, 20 Broadway (at Kent Avenue).
They had me at it will define your glutes.
That is, the two young entrepreneurs Josh Ozeri and Robert Minucci, who’ve opened the first-ever rowing center in NYC (in Williamsburg, on Broadway between Kent and Wythe) called Brooklyn Crew.
More than 600 runners will participate. To present the event, St. Nicks Alliance teamed up with NYCRuns, an organization that organizes races citywide.
Proceeds will benefit afterschool and summer camp programs run by St. Nicks Alliance. Williamsburg/Greenpoint as a “hipster haven,” but most people don’t know that the area, Brooklyn’s Community District 1, has the highest rate of child poverty out of the city’s 59 Community Districts. The need for youth programming is acute, and the proceeds raised by this race will help fill that need.
Re-acquainting the Heart with Space
No matter what our work in the world might be, we all lose some of our inner space from time to time. Even though my work is what I consider to be skillful and helpful to others, running a business of any kind requires logistical thinking, planning and organization of oneself and others.
Being here in the monastery has given me the greatest gift of all, space—I remember again what it feels like, allows for in the heart, provides for in the mind. I am at home anywhere in the world with it, and happy with anything because of it.