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.







