Getting lost and finding yourself in a Brooklyn DIY space can turn out to be the best adventure of your life. Unbounded creativity, pure joy of living, performances and art to spin your head around, in Bushwick we know that feeling very well.

The spaces, a vast number of which have been left empty after manufacturing started to leave Brooklyn, have been adopted by the artists who turned them into spaces for living, making art, throwing parties, hosting classes and performances, building innovative products, and fostering creative communities.

The fascination over these repurposed DIY spaces lead Williamsburg-based blogger and writer, Oriana Leckert to create a website, Brooklyn Spaces, where she aggregated, and told the story of 120+ of them over the course of several years.