Every Sunday night, 30 or 40 friends — mostly young, well-educated and multi-racial — meet for a potluck supper and, until the season ended, football party in a former factory in Ridgewood.
Some work in film production. Others are artists, grad students, and new mothers. Nearly all of them are in their 20s and 30s.
What they have in common is an earnest belief that modern American life can’t go on much longer in the face of a pandemic, calamitous climate change and political polarization.
They especially don’t trust government can be much help.
The cultural and political collective is called Woodbine after Woodbine Street, where its original headquarters were located. Two years ago, the group moved around the corner to a former factory on Woodward Avenue.
True to the dictionary definition of a collective, it has no hierarchy or boss.
The space is run by a steering committee of self-selected members who meet when there is something to meet about, says Matt Peterson, a filmmaker who is one of Woodbine’s original members.
The space is unrenovated but nearly always busy, he says. Yoga classes, a weekly movie night, a profit-making co-working operation, English classes and a community-supported-agriculture group happen there.
Since the pandemic began, a food bank distributes groceries there to about 150 neighborhood families twice a week.
A makeshift gym — pieced together by two Manhattan fitness trainers who just moved to the neighborhood — recently took over the back room.
The noisy Sunday potluck supper, begun in May 2014, may be Woodbine’s oldest activity.
The dinner, open to all, is like a live-action version of an online chatroom.
Over wine, beer and bean dishes, Iike-minded Ridgewood reformists talk politics, city life, entrepreneurship and sports.
On a recent Sunday, while two volunteer cooks prep in an open kitchen on one side of the room, a big-screen TV on the other side shows the Buffalo Bills playoff game. (“They’re the only football team that pays taxes in New York,” says Peterson.)
A $5 donation is suggested to cover food costs. Some regulars bring wine or party dip in Tupperware as well. Woodbine’s reading group meets for two hours just before the dinner.
Wonder if you have to show a vax pass to partake in this "anti-government" collective.
19 comments:
Great story till the last line. Who cares about their vaccination policy and why did you designate them anti government?
A political indoctrination site. Unless you spout the party line, no bean dip for you.
If you want to meet the TA commies responsible for the crap lanes, flimsy paper shopping bags and astronomical Con Ed bills, this is the place for you.
Don’t be surprised when some little Fidel Castro wannabe hustles you out a side door for asking too many questions.
No safe space for any neighborhood left overs.
@Anon re: great story
QNS described them as anti-gov, and why not inquire if they have a vax policy, which is a government edict. Excuse me for asking potluck dinner type questions.
Alex Jones Is Always Right said...
More NYC Commie Meatheads playing checkers.
"Well-educated and multi-racial"
Well that's all we need to know.
The last line is the *only* line of the article, the rest is quoted from Queens Chronicle.
they're anarchists without a black hoodie and ski mask
sounds about right....at this point leave the cities for the suburbs and don't let people like this take any amount of power
Ridgewood gentrifiers pushing up the rents in their escape from Lower East Side and Williamsburg.
They turn up their almond and oat milk drinking noses at the peasants who grew up in the neighborhood.
No Left overs need apply. Leftovers- either born into Ridgewood or moved in ten years ago. Their rent is a lot lower.
Were they as pretensions as they sound? Is anybody willing to go over and find out for us?
They are the "political polarization," what they want is for everyone to be of one opinion, theirs. Not only do they want all Americans to think like them - they want all Americans to acknowledge that they think like them. Sick!
Yeah! "Real Mericans' don't go to Yoga classes. They go to McDonald's and drink Budweiser, cause it's the King of Beers.
Quote: "Some work in film production. Others are artists, grad students, and new mothers. Nearly all of them are in their 20s and 30s"
Somebody likely bought advertising in the Queens Chronicle to get this piece of junk horseshit published? It looks exactly like the same exact shit you read in all the Hamptons rags, Dans Paper etc.
I worked in TV, music (FOH sound) and movie production in this city
Translation: Broke ass self titled useless socialists doing thinks nobody will pay them one cent for.
2- No such thing as film production anymore, 99% is all 4:2:2 4K
digital Cinema cameras and digital editing with computers.
I doubt these people have $600,000 laying around to put out anything inde that's decent enough to get paid for.
---let alone on a network or in syndication.
To get paid in that field in NYC 5 you gotta be in the IATSE union, and that's near impossible because 1-you need to be family related to a current member and 2: Its closed they are not taking any new members. (well maybe if a member dies others vote to install a son or daughter successor. That's how I got in, my old boss at the Astoria studio died otherwise FORGETABOUDID)
The TMZ 30 mile out zone from central Manhattan applies just like the Hollywood IAs.
These guys likely run water bottles on set, wipe dogshit off cables and grip equipment after a street shoot as interns at best.
I bet every one of them is not paying their rent.
Senior Citizen landlords are sick and tired of carrying them.
A grant from your tax dollars is likely paying for this party shack shit.
Queens Chronicle needs to vet the crap they are sent, perhaps they are real busy.
Can I have the government or George Soros pay me to place pot plants, psychedelic graffiti bar and Jacuzzi on the roof with drunk naked women and call it "art" ?
Joe
@Can I have the government or George Soros
No Joe, he is crapping in his pants right now, that Vladimir decided to take his NWO-WEF trash out, just in time for spring cleaning.
George Soros, NYC Council and racist quack mayor deBlasio 2.0 needs regime change.
Hang them all from the Empire State Building
Id like to have Vladimir here 1 year carte blanch (With the exception of taking private property and money of course)to clean up our trash and shit.
Get all these mother_ckers hitting old lady's with hammers and killing people off the street and trains. No tax payer paid social worker to sweet-talk killers and give them warm beds, coffee & cake but a simple FIRING SQUAD and a hole on Hart Island!
That's what needed.
Putin actually said in an interview "look what happened to New York" under NWO influence and democrat reforms like opening jails and crying over idiots. Its no good no good and backwards because now its good people suffering and treated like criminals, bathrooms for transvestites in public schools --"NOT HERE, I WILL NOT TAKE ORDERS FROM THE UNITED STATES or BRUSSLES" (slams fist)
I just hope Bidon and Soros doesn't manage to ship a horde of Ukraine pro NWO liberal refugees here to New York. Lower Brooklyn and the city will literally sink through the schist. (schist = NYCs type of bedrock)
>Vladimir decided to take his NWO-WEF trash out
Yes, Chernobyl, backwoods Ukraine, Kharkov; well known as the headquarters of the NWO.
Vladimir decided to take his NWO-WEF trash out.
I don't like commies but at least Putin ain’t no woke.
Thanks to Putin Russian people still know which bathrooms to use and they don’t have boys swimming in girls underwear.
This shit going on in current day New York City with these Democratic Socialists of America,is far worse then anything Russia's commies were ever did.
“neoliberal order,” NATO and the United States not minding its own dam business has literally forced Putin to turn Kyiv into the biggest shooting gallery since WWII.
I'm going to bite my tongue and try to watch Biden tonight !
@"I don't like commies but at least Putin ain’t no woke.
Thanks to Putin Russian people still know"
Says it all about Trumpanzees. Fascist imperialists, one and all!
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