Hannah Frishberg

New York

Culture & Arts Reporter at WNYC (New York, NY)

Reporter at Gothamist

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Articles

Brooklyn has a new magic show for those who can find it

5 days ago | gothamist.com | Hannah Frishberg

A local magician has transformed an empty Carroll Gardens storefront into a speakeasy magic venue. The intimate performance space is hidden behind Precision Clock & Watch, a fake repair shop at 449 Court St. It’s in the space that was home to P.J Hanley’s for 139 years until it shuttered in 2013. The lobby is outfitted with various esoteric, old-timey objects including vintage suitcases and a ventriloquist. Pass through red velvet curtains and you’ll find the small main show space.
New NYC food festival ‘The Great Nosh’ is coming to Governors Island

1 week ago | gothamist.com | Hannah Frishberg

New York is getting a new food festival this summer, and it’s set to feature a menu from some of the city’s biggest restaurant names that's created just for the event. Called The Great Nosh (not to be confused with Australia’s longest running trail run of the same name), the event is a giant ticketed picnic of sorts. It’s coming to Governors Island for breakfast into late lunch (11 a.m. to 4 p.m.) on Sunday, June 22.
Brooklyn Mirage cancels sold-out reopening show hours before start time

1 week ago | gothamist.com | Hannah Frishberg

Live music venue the Brooklyn Mirage canceled its sold-out reopening concert on Thursday, just hours before it was slated to begin. “We want to be clear: the venue is show ready and the New Mirage has been built to exacting safety, structural, mechanical and technical specifications,” the Bushwick venue wrote in an Instagram post.
Is it possible to be a working-class artist in NYC anymore?

2 weeks ago | gothamist.com | Hannah Frishberg

Being a working-class artist has become increasingly difficult in New York City, where living costs are at record highs, rent keeps rising, wages remain stagnant and half the population struggles to meet basic needs.
Not invited to the Met Gala? Here are 3 affordable alternatives.

2 weeks ago | gothamist.com | Hannah Frishberg

The first Monday in May is famously time for the Met Gala, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute’s rarefied annual fundraiser. But tickets, which start at $75,000 per person, are beyond unaffordable for most New Yorkers – and you need an invite to go. A number of alternative options, however, offer a way to celebrate the start of spring glamorously but at low cost. Here are three such options.
A new display of rare geckos is coming to East Williamsburg

2 weeks ago | gothamist.com | Hannah Frishberg

The largest public display of rare and endangered geckos in New York City is set to open to the public in East Williamsburg next month. Despite its large and diverse reptile collection, the Gecko Gallery is located in a diminutive, approximately 400-square-foot space in the basement of once notorious party mecca the McKibbin Lofts, at 255 McKibbin St.. The idea for it came after gecko researchers Richie Laleh, 29, and Joseph S.
A hot ticket in NYC? The wastewater treatment plant tour.

3 weeks ago | gothamist.com | Hannah Frishberg

For a certain breed of New Yorker, the best kind of exclusive access is not to the hottest new restaurant, the most celebrity-filled party or the hardest-to-book experience: It’s inside access to municipal infrastructure. I am this breed of New Yorker. So when I recently learned Open House New York was distributing $10 tickets by lottery for a tour of Brooklyn’s Owls Head Wastewater Treatment Plant, I immediately entered.
Inside the auditions for the New York Liberty’s over-40 dance squad

4 weeks ago | gothamist.com | Hannah Frishberg

The New York Liberty play their home opener against the Las Vegas Aces on May 17 at the Barclays Center. But on Tuesday evening, there was another competition for court time. More than 100 dancers auditioned for just 21 spots on the Liberty’s cheerleading team, the Timeless Torches. Founded in 2005, less than a decade after the creation of the WNBA, the Timeless Torches are a co-ed dance group in which every member is at least 40 years old. Last season’s squad ranged in age from 42 to 87.
An unconventional fashion show is coming to a Bushwick roller rink

1 month ago | gothamist.com | Hannah Frishberg |Liv Handmade

A fresh take on the traditional fashion show is coming to a Brooklyn roller rink next week. Now in its third year, Reworked Runway showcases local labels, dancers and musicians in one unconventional fashion show. This year’s event will take place at Xanadu Roller Arts in Bushwick on Tuesday, April 22 at 7 p.m., though participants won’t be on skates.
Bernie Sanders, Chuck Schumer and RBG's high school turns 100

1 month ago | gothamist.com | Hannah Frishberg

What do Carole King, Judge Judy and Chris Rock have in common? They all went to James Madison High School in Midwood, Brooklyn. James Madison opened in 1925 and is a typical-looking New York City public school with an astonishing number of famous alumni, including Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stanley Kaplan (founder of test prep company Kaplan, Inc.), former U.S. Sen.