Searching For Love, In A Slightly Gentrifying Space

Aiming to foster real life connections, Ridgewood’s Tiny Art Supply will be hosting its speed dating events at Willows, starting this month. Vanessa America, who runs Tiny Art, says she hopes to bring neighbors from Ridgewood and Bushwick together in hosting both “Straight(‘-ish’)” singles nights as well as queer nights for “Girls, Gays & Non Binary Baes.” 

“We want to keep it within two miles of the venue,” says America. “I mean I won’t be checking utility bills or anything, but it was important to me that everyone was local and from the neighborhood.”