A beginner’s guide to making coffee at home
What if you could recreate the café experience at home, saving a bit of cash and becoming something of a coffee connoisseur in the process?
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Beyond Netflix: Expand your horizons with these alternative streaming sites
A vast palette of Twitter-trending content is available to stream at the click of a button, so staying indoors for hours on end (or days, no judgement) just doesn’t seem so wrong.
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Balancing act: Graphic designer and illustrator Reyna Clarissa
This September, Reyna became Nooklyn’s first-ever in-house designer. The position was created to generate effective marketing materials for new rental apartment buildings and homes for sale.
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Badass Women: Trisha Sakhuja-Walia, NY native and CEO of Brown Girl Magazine
Early on the Monday following Thanksgiving weekend, I get on the phone with Trisha Sakhuja-Walia, CEO of Brown Girl Magazine, to talk about her path and vision for the platform.
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The Stanwix, NYC’s First Alexa Powered Smart Apartments
The Stanwix is the first apartment building in Brooklyn to offer smart home technology in every apartment.
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Getting to know real estate photographer Nicholas Doyle
If you’ve looked at a Nooklyn listing or read a Nooklyn Story, chances are you have seen photos taken by Nicholas Doyle. We decided to put him in the spotlight for a change.
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Reclaiming the “Cat Lady” image with Girls and Their Cats creator BriAnne Wills
BriAnne (who was introduced to me by illustrator Cat Willett), is a fashion and beauty photographer and creator of Girls and Their Cats, a photo series showcasing cat-owning women in a positive light.
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How illustrator Cat Willett uses her art to inspire women and cultivate community
Cat Willett is an artist who keeps consciousness and community at the forefront of her work. Her illustrations are unequivocally feminine — both soft and strong at once, her use of color is intentional and thematic, and there’s an air of optimism around everything she creates.
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Precycle, Brooklyn’s first package-free, zero waste grocery store
Katerina Bogatireva has been thinking about sustainable living for a long time. Katerina, the founder of Precycle, a Bushwick-based grocery store that promises to sell items without wasteful packaging, believes that real change has to start within all of us.
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Badass Women: Natalie Grillon, fair fashion pioneer
Natalie Grillon is something of a celebrity to me — I’ve been following her work as she’s made her mark within the growing slow fashion movement over the past several years.
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