3rd Ward Staff + Member // A Stylish & Creative Collision

Two of our favorite style stars met... and a blog entry was born.

3rd Ward Member, photographer, and handsome hat wearer Darryl Calmese shot our Studio Manager, bike pro, and Front Desk Hunk, Will Sansom for the fierce and fabulous style blog, The Blay Report. 

Click here to see Darryl's street style pics (you might recognize that sidewalk), and find out where Will gets his fashion inspiration (and the last time he took a bath). 

Plus, learn more about how Darryl launched his career at 3rd Ward, by clicking here.

3rd Ward in the Press // Get Back to the Land

3rd Ward gardening class

Meg Paska, courtesy of New York Post

Just in time for spring’s arrival, 3rd Ward teacher and Brooklyn homesteader extraordinaire, Meg Paska, has been profiled by the New York Post.

You don’t need to live in the country to enjoy fresh eggs, grow fresh vegetables, and make your own jams and pickles. In her home in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Meg keeps chickens and bees, composts, and forages through Brooklyn’s many green spaces.  

Now’s the time to get in touch with your urban homesteader. Enjoying the NYC farmlife is easier and more accessible than you might think. New 3rd Ward classes in rooftop beekeeping, urban food production, and raising chickens start as soon as May 1st. See the full list here.

Read the full New York Post article here and learn more about Meg on her blog.

Keeping Pace with a Changing Workplace // An interview with Jason Goodman

The other day, All That We've Met, a blog of ideological interviews with influencers, met with our Executive Director, Jason Goodman. Click here to read the whole interview, and below for some choice insights on our vision, values, and building community for a modern age.

On what we think about everyday.

A lot of it is [about] having a deeper understanding of what [3rd Ward] is doing. When we started off, we were focused on the base needs that we were providing to people: giving people access to [creative] facilities. And then we thought, well, there's something beyond that....The key to surviving [as] 3rd Ward is to really listen to our members, meet their basic and higher needs, and never ever stop innovating.

On providing new ways of problem-solving in a changing world.

One of the reasons why 3rd Ward is so successful is because we enable people to step out of the companies and work for themselves.

Going from 10% freelance in the ‘90s, 30% of the country is freelance today. 50% in the next ten years? We see that trend happening. It's probably not going to stop, and we want to provide the resources that the company used to provide to all these freelance innovators. The challenge is keeping up with a restructuring, work society.

On taking risks.

I think what’s underappreciated is that failure is part of progress, in that there is real danger in being a success. As New Yorkers, we’re really success focused. The problem with success-thinking is that you got to make sure it’s going to work. If you make sure it’s going to work, you better not do anything different. You better do what you know is going to work. That’s what makes success. So fuck success.

On building 3rd Ward's community.

Everybody talks about community community community; it’s a buzz word. You cannot just add water and magically have community. Especially not a good community. Community is a living, breathing thing that never stops moving. So the most important thing to maintaining one is to remain constructively adaptive.

Want to learn more about 3rd Ward? Come take a tour and see first-hand what Jason's talking about.

Brooklyn Paper Knows our Director is one to Watch!

Well, look who's number 12!

We do have a lot of exciting stuff coming up (want more info on our free lectures look here.)

Here is the full article at Brooklyn Paper: 20 in '10 - Here are the Ones to Watch