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Joel Holland’s New Book Illuminates Bushwick’s Vibrant Storefronts

From Bossa Nova to House Of Yes and back again.

Joel Holland’s New Book Illuminates Bushwick’s Vibrant Storefronts

Joel Holland’s New Book Illuminates Bushwick’s Vibrant Storefronts

From Bossa Nova to House Of Yes and back again.

Joel Holland’s New Book Illuminates Bushwick’s Vibrant Storefronts

Joel Holland has been making it his business to illustrate various New York storefronts since taking the idea up during the pandemic, when many of them were closed indefinitely. His illustrations found ways to turn the city’s concrete everyday brick and mortars into a glittering cultural mosaic. After collecting a handful of them in a book called ‘NYC Storefronts: Illustrations of the Big Apple’s Best-Loved Spots,’ he’s back at it again with another book focusing on just ones that are just in Brooklyn. “So many of these spaces double as community institutions whose worth to the surrounding neighborhood extends far beyond simply what they sell,” writes David Dodge in Brooklyn Storefronts, the newest book of Holland’s illustrations, published by Penguin Random House this month via their Prestel imprint. Of course, there wasn’t any way this tour could have avoided Bushwick — Andrew Karpan.

Kae Burke and Anya Sapozhnikova—who, in addition to being best friends, are long-standing circus producers— opened House of Yes in Ridgewood, Queens, in 2007 as a place to host aerial…

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