A joint venture of the Brookyn Writer’s Space and Brooklyn Artist’s Gym, Room 58 is now open and they are having an opening party to celebrate and to give people a chance to look at the space.

CELEBRATE THE OPENING OF ROOM 58
            WEDNESDAY MAY 23 7pm – 9pm
            168 7th Street, 3rd Floor
            (ring the Brooklyn Artists Gym bell)
            R/M/F to 4th Ave and 9th Street

Check out the new space, the first of its kind in Brooklyn (if not NYC). I think it’s a great idea and a real solution for writers who are short on space but need to do computer research and talk on the phone. Way to go Scott Adkins and Peter Wallace, both of whom were included on this year’s Park Slope 100.

"For some of our writers, telephone work is essential to what they do," says
Scott Adkins, co-founder of Park Slope’s popular Brooklyn Writers Space
(BWS) and partner in the new Room 58/B.A.G. venture. "BWS is a great quiet
environment for writers of all genres. But for those who also need
traditional office capabilities, Room 58 is ideal."

"There’s a synergy and fermentation that can happen when creative artists
are working in the same place," says Peter Wallace, B.A.G. founder and Room
58 partner. "A new kind of meeting can happen—in the studio, in the lounge,
in the gallery–that can launch a new tangent in someone’s work, or affirm a
direction that seemed tenuous at first."