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Second Half added
Popular brewer to give Brooklyn double the hops
By Julianne Cuba
Brooklyn Paper
These brewers are ready
for their next round!
A popular Carroll Gardens
brewery will open its second
Brooklyn location at the end
of this year. The heads of the
Other Half Brewing Company
are setting up shop inside the
East River–facing megadevelopment
rising on the site
of the old Domino Sugar factory
in Williamsburg, according
to the beer makers, who
said they cannot wait to share
their cult ale with a new community.
“We’re excited to be opening
an Other Half outpost at
Domino,” said co-founder
Matt Monahan. “We’ll be
serving up some of our classics
as well as exciting new
beers, and we’re looking forward
to joining the neighborhood.”
Other Half’s new retail
and drinking spot will occupy
a space slightly larger
than a tennis court inside
the 42-story tower dubbed
1 South First, which borough
based developer Two
Trees is constructing at the
corner of Grand Street and
File photo by Stefano Giovannini
Other Half brewery owners Matt Monahan, left, and Samuel Richardson are
opening a second outpost of their suds spot in Williamsburg.
Kent Avenue.
The tower — which will
boast 300 apartments, 66 of
which will be so-called affordable
— will also be home
to an outpost of Bushwick’s
hipster pizza haven Roberta’s,
and its food and drink retailers
will make the building
the neighborhood’s new dining
destination when it opens
later this year, according to a
Two Trees bigwig.
“We’ve been incredibly intentional
about the independent,
Brooklyn-born food
retailers coming to Domino
and the Other Half Brewery
will be a terrific addition
to Williamsburg,” said
Jed Walentas. “With Roberta’s
right next door, 1 South
First will be a premier destination
along Grand Street,
which continues to emerge
as a cultural and food destination
in Brooklyn.”
Other Half opened its Carroll
Gardens brewery on Centre
Street in 2013.
City Tech opens new complex
By Maya Harrison
Brooklyn Paper
This building gets a passing
grade!
Educators at the New
York City College of Technology
cut the ribbon to open
its new Downtown learning
center on Feb. 14, concluding
a years-in-the-making project
to build new classrooms for
the school’s health-care and
sciences programs.
The city-block-sized facility,
which also includes a
1,000-seat theater, an 800-seat
gym, and a wellness center,
will allow City Tech students
to stay at the cutting-edge of
science, technology, engineering,
and math education, ac-
cording to the public college’s
president.
“We are confident that this
new complex will allow us to
further our mission of preparing
the technologically sophisticated
workforce needed
to keep New York competitive,
and support core sectors
of New York’s economy,” said
Russell Hotzler.
The new building at 285
Jay St., where the university’s
antiquated Klitgord
Auditorium once stood, includes
eight floors of offices,
classrooms, and labs for students
and educators in a variety
of curricula, including
restorative dentistry, dental
hygiene, and radiology.
City Tech educators joined pols and other local
leaders to cut the ribbon and open the public university’s
new Downtown classrooms on Feb. 14.
Photo by Trey Pentecost
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