The Brooklyn Beat

Early in the 21^st century, Brooklyn became known as the hippest city in the world. How did this happen?  
Back in the 1980s, the borough was known for grit, grime and crime, not unlike New York City as a whole. One ray of hope was a little bar on the southern fringe of Park Slope where a handful of bands built a scene that captured the attention of the Indie rock world and showed that Brooklyn was a cauldron of art. 
Rachel Cleary, an on-air personality for Radio Free Brooklyn, initially found Lauterbach’s shortly after the scene had cooled. Decades later, through her radio show, she met some of the people who put it on the map way back when, and had to learn more.. 

This is Rachel’s journey of discovering the community and loving diaspora that grew out of: