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DIY Desk Space: Bushwick’s Market Hotel Now Offers Daytime Coworking

"The idea is to be able to keep the space running while we can't do shows," Market Hotel's rep said.

DIY Desk Space: Bushwick’s Market Hotel Now Offers Daytime Coworking

DIY Desk Space: Bushwick’s Market Hotel Now Offers Daytime Coworking

"The idea is to be able to keep the space running while we can't do shows," Market Hotel's rep said.

DIY Desk Space: Bushwick’s Market Hotel Now Offers Daytime Coworking
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As Brooklyn’s DIY scene continually evolves, Myrtle-Broadway’s storied Market Hotel is trying out something new: during the day, local freelancers can pay a membership fee to have access to the space for coworking.

Market Hotel first served as a venue and practice space in the late aughts when it was home to squatters. It reopened to much fanfare last year as a professionalized nonprofit event space that put on a packed calendar of heralded, sold-out shows before a tangle with the law in October prompted management to move the venue’s upcoming shows and rethink the space’s business model until the organization obtained a full liquor license.

Events at Market Hotel in the past few months have included community-minded, non-boozy programming such as a a free, all-ages “drum arcade” and several vegan pop-up markets. Management has also found some creative ways to pay the rent for the space: in November, the big-budget CBS show “Bull” filmed in the space.

Coworking would certainly provide a stable source of monthly income for Market Hotel while its other plans are pending, and management has made sure it can offer a deal worth…

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