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BROOKLYN WEEKLY, DEC. 23, 2018
BY COLIN MIXSON
This podcast will reel-y
hook ya!
Anglers with a local
fishing club recently began
broadcasting their
“big fish” stories on a
new podcast recorded
in Park Slope, which already
boasts an audience
of hundreds who tune in
for their tales and tips,
according to its host.
“I know a lot of old
timers that have been
fishing for years,” said
Victor Lucia, the founder
of Brooklyn Fishing
Club and host of its eponymous
podcast. “They
tell amazing stories, and
a lot of them are about
New York City.”
Lucia, who founded
the club after finishing
a research project on the
history of fishing in the
borough, started the podcast
as a way to record
some of the great angling
yarns he’s collected over
the years for posterity,
he said.
And it happens that
the history of the sport
and city often intertwine,
according to the
host, who said his show
features plenty of stories
that any New Yorker can
appreciate.
“I was talking to some
guys about how back in
the ‘70s they would fi sh in
the Hudson River, and it
was so polluted, one time
they saw a dead cow fl oat
past,” Lucia said. “I just
Soulful
sounds!
love stuff like that, things
are so different than they
were, it’s great to capture
these stories and keep
them some place.”
Of course, the podcast
features plenty of
thrilling seafaring stories
to keep listeners on
the edge of their seats,
including the tale of a
freak storm that sunk 21
boats in New York Harbor
on July 27, 1988, told
by a fisherman whose
monologue rivals Robert
Shaw’s legendary soliloquy
describing the USS
Indianapolis disaster in
“Jaws.”
“It came up, a line
squall, the sky went
black, middle of the day.
The street lights came
on, and the rain came
sideways — cuts you like
a knife,” Captain Frank
of Gypsy Charters told
the host on the podcast’s
Dec. 5th installment.
The episodes also
touch on practical information
for line casters,
such as the city’s best
fishing spots, techniques
used by Kings County’s
top anglers, and even
cooking tips from some
borough chefs.
Brooklyn Fishing
Club’s show is recorded
out of the Brooklyn Podcast
Studio on Garfield
Place near Seventh Avenue
in Park Slope, where
creators of other locallyproduced
podcasts — including
“Richly Melanated,”
which features its
Haitian-American and
Guyanese-American cohosts’
thoughts on life;
and “Willa Wednesdays,”
a comedic take on current
events — also tape
their episodes.
Last dance
W’burg club closing
with year-end bash
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SERVING FISH: Brooklyn Fishing Club founder Victor Lucia, center,
with recent podcast guests Captain Frank, left, and Captain
Rudy, right. Josh Wilcox
From left, singer Alfi o Bonnano,
Msgr. Jamie Gigantiello
of Williamsburg’s Our Lady of
Mount Carmel Church, Anthony
Mangano, the Most Reverend
Nicholas DiMarzio, Bishop of
Brooklyn, and crooner Charlie
Romo were all smiles at a
Dec. 10 concert that Catholic
faith leaders of the Diocese
of Brooklyn hosted inside the
newly restored Church of the
Annunciation in Williamsburg,
where Bonnano and Romo seranaded
attendees with some
mellifl uous music to get them
in the holiday spirit.
They’re pod-casting!
Boro fi shing club’s new audio show shares seafaring stories from Kings County
BY JULIANNE CUBA
It’s lights out for Output!
The Williamsburg club where
party animals for years would
go to dance the night away will
close for good in January — but
not before its owners host a fi -
nal blowout bash on New Year’s
Eve.
Output’s last hurrah will feature
techno tunes spun by a seasoned
disc jockey to celebrate its
run as the neighborhood’s go-to
house-music spot, according to
its founders.
“Fittingly, the club’s storied
tenure will conclude with a New
Year’s Eve marathon by John
Digweed, a DJ whose professionalism
and decades-long dedication
to electronic dance music
and club culture are emblematic
of the values on which Output
was proudly founded,” the owners
of the Wythe Avenue club
wrote in a Dec. 11 tweet that has
since garnered hundreds of comments
from dismayed patrons.
The neon-lit club opened inside
a converted warehouse between
N. 11th and N. 12th streets
in 2013.
It debuted as Kings County’s
fi rst full-sized, licensed venue
dedicated to house and techno
music at a time when other
club owners on the distant isle
of Manhattan shunned those
genres, according to Output’s
founders, who leased the space
for their dancing den.
In 2016, Output co-owner
Shawn Schwartz opened his
Halcyon record store inside the
club , after setting up the shop at
no less than three other Brooklyn
locations since debuting it in
1999.
Halcyon now boasts a second
location on West Street
in Greenpoint, and will keep
its shop inside the Wythe Avenue
building — which closed
for renovations weeks ago,
but will reopen as soon as this
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