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Beloved Bushwick DIY Venue Palisades Is the New Yorker’s Cover This Week

The New Yorker recently delighted its North Brooklyn readers with its April 11th cover "Take the L Train," which portrayed an immediately recognizable pair of bearded straphangers aboard the train we all love to hate, rendered by the adored Tomer Hanuka

Beloved Bushwick DIY Venue Palisades Is the New Yorker’s Cover This Week

Beloved Bushwick DIY Venue Palisades Is the New Yorker’s Cover This Week

The New Yorker recently delighted its North Brooklyn readers with its April 11th cover "Take the L Train," which portrayed an immediately recognizable pair of bearded straphangers aboard the train we all love to hate, rendered by the adored Tomer Hanuka

Beloved Bushwick DIY Venue Palisades Is the New Yorker’s Cover This Week

The New Yorker recently delighted its North Brooklyn readers with its April 11th cover “Take the L Train,” which portrayed an immediately recognizable pair of bearded straphangers aboard the train we all love to hate, rendered by the adored Tomer Hanuka. This week, another North Brooklyn scene is front and center on this town’s favorite magazine: illustrator R. Kikuo Johnnson’s “Closing Set” presents a guitarist’s eye view of a roaring crowd inside Bushwick DIY venue Palisades.

In the New Yorker’s digital featurette Cover Story , Johnson explains that the image was inspired by his first time visiting Palisades. “Everyone in Brooklyn is a d.j., so I rely…

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