Dear Frenz,

Saturday, December 15th we're having a very magical night which we hope you will join us for, as it seems in many ways (for us) to be the culmination of 2007.
A mega-party bathed in ultra-light, @ The Loft, with many of our closest friends, to celebrate many occassions.

Namely:

The release party for the new 'Weird Terrain' compilation (Goodbye Better)

The Goodbye Better Holiday Extravaganza

The release party for Ifwhen's new album 'We Will Gently Destroy You' (Clairecords)

John & Kim's (from Soundpool) Christmas Party

& Ben (from So L'il's) birthday party-a-go-go

Aloft Records, Goodbye Better, and Loveless Music Group present...
Saturday, December 15th, 2007
Doors @ 7pm

Aloft 307 West 38th st. Suite 1905
New York, NY 10018
212-868-5760
http://aloftnyc.com

Performing live with amazing visuals will be the bands:

Soundpool : to hear click here: http://www.myspace.com/soundpool

Ifwhen : to hear click here: http://www.myspace.com/ifwhen

So L'il : to hear click here: http://www.myspace.com/solil

Drifting In The Cinema : to hear click here: http://www.myspace.com/driftinginthecinema

Aydin : to hear click here: http://www.myspace.com/aydinmusic

Admission is $15 and includes all this gorgeous entertainment, + Video Artists, DJ's

+ FREE beer, wine, and soda (~all the live-long night (yes, as much as you can ingest)(+Andy Durutti [LMG/Autumn Theives/Self Storage] bar tending).

+ FREE Aroma-Rama (Smell-o-Vision) Goodbye Better Perfume(!) (courtesy of Merry Parker)

+ Special low price 'Weird Terrain' compilation cds (~to read more about 'Weird Terrain' please see below)

+ the use of fabulous balconies overlooking our fair Gotham City via the 19th floor prism

Would love to see you there,
Thanks!*
Goodbye Better

October 4th @ Pete's Candy Store (709 Lorimer St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn)chapbook release party for Jessica Fiorini's ’Sea Monster At Night’(Goodbye Better). Performing: Jessica Fiorini (!), Arlo Quint, I Feel Tractor, and So L'il. www.petescandystore.com

October 4th @ Pete's Candy Store (709 Lorimer St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn)chapbook release party for Jessica Fiorini's ’Sea Monster At Night’(Goodbye Better). Performing: Jessica Fiorini (!), Arlo Quint, I Feel Tractor, and So L'il.
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Airiel+So L'il+Suell & the Dead Meet, Sunday @ Delancey, NYC

Just Booked! Sunday August 12
(PLEASE COME...last minute show -need all we can get)
@ The Delancey in NYC (http://www.thedelancey.com)



So L'il 10pm
Airiel 9pm
Suell & The Dead Meet (DJ AT of EastVillageRadio) 8pm

21+ to enter; $6.00
$3.00 beers, roofdeck after 8pm
doors 7:30p

band info:
http://www.myspace.com/airiel
http://www.myspace.com/solil



many thanks!
timmyg

Dear Frenz,

So much exciting news on the horizon from your friendly neighborhood Goodbye Better this Sultry Summer de Amor*

In this newsletter...

*Shows (Apollo Heights & So L'il @ Cafe Zebulon)

*New Releases (Goodbye Better 9-band 'Weird Terrain' compilation, Jessica Fiorini poetry chapbook 'Sea Monsters At Night', Corrine Fitzpatrick almost gone!)

*More Shows!* (Frank Sherlock Benefit @ Pete's! w/John Colletti, Corrine Fitzpatrick, Dustin Williamson, I Feel Tractor, So L'il, and Pumpernickel [re-union!])
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*First! This Wednesday, April 25th, Fabulous Free Show* @ Zebulon in Williamsburg (Brooklyn)

Apollo Heights - 10pm

Where future soul, electronica, dream pop, and shoegaze make love lies Apollo Heights. For those who love Al Green and My Bloody Valentine in equal measure, Apollo Heights is exactly what you've been waiting for*

http://www.myspace.com/apolloheights

(Also, to hear the sexiest song outta NYC this last decade [and featured on the forthcoming Apollo Heights full-length 'White Music For Black People'], check out Apollo Heights 'Dakini', which you can listen to by clicking here: Goodbye Better

So L'il - 9pm

So L'il is psychedelic lounge punk. They have just completed a new full-length, 'A Glittering Facade', and are featured on White Label Music's latest release, 'Electronic Bible 3.'

http://solil.net

http://www.zebuloncafeconcert.com/

Zebulon is located at 258 Wythe Ave. (b/w N3rd & Metropolitan)

ph: (718)218-6934

Directions: L to Bedford.

Would love to see you out...Cheers!*

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*Also rising on the horizon this Goodbye Better Summer...

***New 'Weird Terrain' Goodbye Better compilation featuring two to three songs each, by nine gorgeous bands.

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~Jessica Fiorini new poetry chapbook 'Sea Monstes At Night'
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Also, there a few (read very few!) copies left of Corrine Fitzpatrick's 'On Melody Dispatch' chapbook so write us if you'd like one before they're all gone!
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~We also have an extremely important night on the way, a benefit show for our good friend Frank Sherlock, on Cinco De Mayo, 2007, @ Pete's Candy Store.

May 5th, 2007: 9pm to Midnight*

Goodbye Better will be raffling off tons of books and cds, with all proceeds going to the Frank Sherlock Emergency Fund:

Performing will be...

*Dustin Williamson

Dustin Williamson is the auther of 'Heavy Panda' (Goodbye Better) & 'Gorilla Dust' (Open 24 Hours Press), and is the editor of Rustbuckle Publications.

*Corrine Fitzpatrick

Corrine Fitzpatrick is the author of 'On Melody Dispatch' (Goodbye Better), is from San Diego, and currently works at The Poetry Project.

*John Colletti

John Colletti is the author of 'Chirping Ambrosia' (Goodbye Better) and 'Physical Kind' (Portable Press At YoYo Labs/Boku Books), and is the founder of the poemcore movement.

*So L'il

So L'il is psychedelic lounge punk band. In the last four years they've released two full-lengths, an ep, and a split 7", all on Goodbye Better.

http://www.myspace.com/solil

http://solil.net

*I Feel Tractor

I Feel Tractor has released a self-titled 7" record (Ugly Duckling), and their cd 'Once I Had An Earthquake' was released last year on Goodbye Better.

http://www.myspace.com/ifeeltractor

*Pumpernickel

Mark Ospovat (owner & producer extraordinare of the legendary Williamsburg studio Emandee) re-unites with his equally legendary band Pumpernickel (who in the late 90s released the classic 'The Albany Purchase' [Spare Me]).

http://www.myspace.com/pumpernickelmusic

Pete's Candy Store is located at 709 Lorimer St. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

http://petescandystore.com

Directions: L train to Lorimer or G to Metropolitan.

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Our good friend Frank Sherlock was rushed to the hospital January 22nd with a sudden and mysterious illness which turned out to be a serious case of meningitis. He needed emergency surgery and also suffered a heart attack and kidney failure as a result of symptoms related to the illness. His friends have come together to help him at this critical time. We are reaching out to other friends and the poetry community on Frank's behalf. Frank's poetry page can be found here: http://FrankSherlock.blogspot.com

THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT, AND PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD,from the Friends of Frank Sherlock the Frank Sherlock EMERGENCY FUND: http://PhillySound.blogspot.com

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Also, for those of you who care, prior to this benefit, Pete's will be having a Kentucky Derby party all day...

EL KENTUCKY DERBY 4-9

Backyard BBQ !

Musicians !!

Drink specials !!!

Horse-guessing contest !!!!

Prizes !!!!!

The race, on Pete's widescreen TV, live from Louisville, KY !!!!!!

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Thanks!*

Love,

Goodbye Better

http://goodbyebetter.com

Cinco De Mayo! Frank Sherlock Benefit in Brooklyn*~

Saturday, May 5th @ Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Goodbye Better presents:

Corrine Fitzpatrick

I Feel Tractor
http://www.myspace.com/ifeeltractor

Dustin Williamson

Pumpernickel (re-union show!)
http://www.myspace.com/pumpernickelmusic

John Colletti

So L'il
http://www.myspace.com/solil
http://solil.net

Show starts @ 8:00pm

We will be raffling off tons of books and cds, with all proceeds going to the Frank Sherlock emergency fund.

Pete's Candy Store is located at 709 Lorimer St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn
www.petescandystore.com


Our good friend Frank Sherlock was rushed to the hospital January 22nd with a sudden and mysterious illness which turned out to be a serious case of meningitis. He needed emergency surgery and also suffered a heart attack and kidney failure as a result of symptoms related to the illness. His friends have come together to help him at this critical time. We are reaching out to other friends and the poetry community on Frank's behalf.Frank's poetry page can be found here: http://FrankSherlock.blogspot.com

THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT, AND PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD,from the Friends of Frank Sherlock the Frank Sherlock EMERGENCY FUND: http://PhillySound.blogspot.com

Loveless Music Group and Aloft Records present...

Saturday, March 31st, 2007
Doors @ 7pm

Aloft 307 West 38th st. Suite #1905
New York, NY 10018
212-868-5760
http://aloftnyc.com

7:30 - Misty Roses

8:30 - So L’il

9:30 - Monocle

10:30 - Soundpool

11:30 - Butterfly Explosion

plus dj the invisible kid and hula artist miss saturn
Thanks!*

Goodbye Better Shows*

March 10, 2007
I Feel Tractor @ THE BURNING CHAIR READINGS
70 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, New York
Cost : $5

THE BURNING CHAIR READINGS
BROOKLYN POETRY BAZAAR
Saturday, March 10th, 2007
2:30-7 PM Galapagos Art Space
70 North 6th Street Between Kent and Wythe
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
http://www.galapagosartspace.com
$5 for twelve poets & another who sings 2:30-4:30 PM
Ben Mazer
Christian Hawkey
Matvei Yankelevich
Anna Moschovakis
Ann Lauterbach
Fanny Howe
4:30-5 PM
I Feel Tractor
5-7 PM
Farid Matuk
Susan Briante
Jess Mynes
Karen Weiser
Anselm Berrigan
Rod Smith

March 18, 2007
Benefit for Frank Sherlock @ Fergies Pub
1214 Sansom St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
I Feel Tractor & So L'il will both be playing @ this benefit for Frank.

Our good friend Frank Sherlock was rushed to the hospital January 22nd with a sudden and mysterious illness which turned out to be a serious case of meningitis. He needed emergency surgery and also suffered a heart attack and kidney failure as a result of symptoms related to the illness. His friends have come together to help him at this critical time. We are reaching out to other friends and the poetry community on Frank's behalf.

Frank's poetry page can be found here: http://FrankSherlock.blogspot.com

THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT, AND PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD,from the Friends of Frank Sherlock the Frank Sherlock EMERGENCY FUND: http://PhillySound.blogspot.com


March 22, 2007
Ifwhen & So L'il @ Zebulon
258 Wythe Ave., Brooklyn, New York
11211
http://www.zebuloncafeconcert.com/

March 31, 2007
So L'il @ Aloft w/Soundpool/Butterfly Explosion/Monocle/Misty Roses + Dj's
307 West 38th St. suite #1905 btw 8th & 9th aves,
New York City, New York 10018
Cost : $15/free beer & wine
From Soundpool: hi everyone... our very good friends Butterfly Explosion are coming into town from Ireland and will be performing along with us (Soundpool) and our very good friends So L'il plus brooklyn based Monocle (very cool stereolabish sound!) and a rare performance by UK/NY duo Misty Roses (Jonny is flying in from the UK to perform with our good friend Robert). There will be visuals, dj's and free beer and wine. This very special event is brought to you by Soundpool & Aloft Records

May 5, 2007
Benefit for Frank Sherlock @ Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street, Brooklyn, New York
Featuring most Goodbye Better artists including Mellow Crypt + much more tba very soon.

FUND RAISER FOR FRANK SHERLOCK

This Saturday3:00-4:00 pmThe Bowery Poetry Club308 Bowery@ BleeckerNew York, NY
$20 suggested donation (please give what you can)

Performers include:

Anselm Berrigan
Eddie Berrigan
John Coletti
Cori Copp
Marcella Durand
Greg Fuchs
Brenda Iijima
Mark Lamoureux
Carol Mirakove

Our good friend Frank Sherlock was rushed to the hospital January 22nd with a sudden and mysterious illness which turned out to be a serious case of meningitis. He needed emergency surgery and also suffered a heart attack and kidney failure as a result of symptoms related to the illness. His friends have come together to help him at this critical time. We are reaching out to other friends and the poetry community on Frank's behalf. Frank's poetry page can be found here: http://FrankSherlock.blogspot.com

THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT, AND PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD,from the Friends of Frank Sherlock

Queering Language & Open 24 Hours*

Goodbye Better peeps readin all over the city this weekend...Friday Dustin Williamson (whose 'Heavy Panda' came out on Goodbye Better last year, and whose 'Gorilla Dust' will be coming out on Open 24 Hours this year) and Saturday Corrine Fitzpatrick (whose 'On Melody Dispatch' just came out on Goodbye Better [and which will be available at the Saturday reading]) and Ben Malkin (from So L'il)...come out & toast w/us! Much Love, Goodbye Better________________________________

Friday, February 9, 10:30 PM
@ The Poetry Project

An evening celebrating the work published by Open 24 Hours Press , edited by Greg Fuchs and John Coletti Readers to include Corina Copp, Arlo Quint, Dustin Williamson, Mariana Ruiz-Firmat and Erica Kaufman.

Plus a collaborative happening with visual artist Jonathan Allen, frequent Open 24 Hours cover designer.

Open 24 Hours is based in New York City and fashions itself after the mimeo style of 1960's poetry publishing efforts.

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Please join us for a poetry reading to celebrate
the online publication of EOAGH A Journal of the Arts,
Issue Three: Queering Language

( http://chax.org.eoagh/issue3.html--issue will be released on 2/10)

hosted by Tim Peterson & Nathaniel Siegel

Readers include:
Jen Benka, Mark Bibbins, Julian Brolaski, Regie Cabico, David Cameron, Abigail Child, Jen Coleman, Allison Cobb, Marcella Durand, Joe Elliot, Corrine Fitzpatrick, E. Tracy Grinnell, Brenda Iijima, Jeffrey Jullich, Amy King, Bill Kushner, Rachel Levitsky, Ben Malkin, Filip Marinovich, Eileen Myles, Martha Oatis, Akilah Oliver, Austin Publicover, Christina Strong

Saturday February 10th, 2007
8pm-10pm
@ The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery (@ Bowery & Bleecker)
www.bowerypoetry.com
Admission $5.00 plus 2 drink minimum
proceeds will go to the visionary community in Southern India Cinema Paradiso fund established in the memory of kari edwards.

***EOAGH Issue 3 – Queering Language was edited by C.A. Conrad, kari edwards, Paul Foster Johnson, Erica Kaufman, Jack Kimball, Tim Peterson, and Stacy Szymaszek.

This online publication includes the work of over 100 contributors as well as editors statements on this project.

The issue is dedicated to the memory of kari edwards (1954-2006) dear friend, mentor, colleague, crusader.

UPDATE on the Frank Sherlock EMERGENCY FUND
Thanks to the generosity of Juliana Spahr you can now send checks for the Frank Sherlock EMERGENCY FUND which will be tax deductible!
'A 'A ARTS
c/o J. Spahr
5000 MacArthur Blvd.
Oakland, CA 94613
CHECKS SHOULD BE MADE OUT TO "'A 'A ARTS"and these checks will be tax deductible.PLEASE MAKE A NOTE THAT YOUR CHECK IS FOR FRANK SHERLOCK.Thanks so much! Your donations are very much appreciated!from the Friends of Frank Sherlock

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** friends of poetry ** Frank Sherlock EMERGENCY FUND ** please read ASAP!******

The following link is for everyone to use on blogs and other online media: http://phillysound.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_phillysound_archive.html#117078605881722949

Our good friend Frank Sherlock was rushed to the hospital January 22nd with a sudden and mysterious illness which turned out to be a serious case of meningitis. He needed emergency surgery, and also suffered a heart attack and kidney failure as a result of symptoms related to the illness.

The timing could not be worse as this attack of meningitis happened during the two month window in which Frank is without health insurance.

His friends have come together to help raise money at this critical time. We are reaching out to other friends and the poetry community on Frank's behalf. Please consider sending donations for his hospital bills, physical therapy, as well as his very expensive medications and other needs.

If you can make a donation by check or money order at this time please send it to Frank's longtime friend Matthew McGoldrick.

VERY IMPORTANT: Please make check or money order out to Matthew McGoldrick, and send to his address:

1504 Morris St.
Philadelphia PA 19145

We will be having a benefit show in Philadelphia in the very near future. If you would like to be notified of that event please e-mail CAConrad13@aol.com for the details. Frank's poetry page can be found here: http://franksherlock.blogspot.com/, and he can also be found at http://phillysound.blogspot.com/

THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT, AND PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD,
from the Friends of Frank Sherlock

Tonight (Friday, January 26th) Eddie Berrigan (I Feel Tractor) is reading at the Bowery Poetry Club with brother Anselm Berrigan. (308 Bowery, NYC 10012-212.614.0505 betw. Bleecker and Houston)

8:30pm – 9:45pm Bowery Broadsides: Eddie Berrigan and Anselm Berrigan FREE + 2 Drink Minimum Bowery Broadsides Series hosted by Farfalla Press presents Anselm Berrigan and Edmund Berrigan in the inaugural night of a year long reading series. First fifty patrons receive free broadsides by both poets. Admission is free with a two-drink minimum.

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Monday, January 29, 8:00 pm
Corrine Fitzpatrick & Heather Nagami @

Corrine Fitzpatrick’s poems can be found in Cock Now and The Brooklyn Rail and on sonaweb and EOAGH. Her new chapbook, On Melody Dispatch (Goodbye Better, 2007) will be “released” at the reading, and another project, Zamboangueña, is in the works from Sona Books. She graduated from UCSD in 2004 and is currently pursuing an MFA from PPU. Heather Nagami's first book, Hostile, was published in 2005. Her poetry and reviews have appeared in Antennae, Galatea Resurrects, Rattle, Shifter, and Xcp (Cross-Cultural Poetics). Nagami currently lives near Boston with her husband Bryan, where they run overhere press, a small press that publishes chapbooks by people of color and other underrepresented individuals.

The Poetry Project is located at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street at Second Avenue
New York City 10003
Trains: 6, F, N, R, and L.
info@poetryproject.com
www.poetryproject.com

Admission is $8, $7 for students/seniors and $5 for members.

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And Wednesday, January 31st, 2007 @ Galapagos
70 North 6th St. (b/w Kent & Wythe), Williamsburg, Brooklyn
TRANSMISSIONS 2.0 and evening of music and videos with bands: So L'il, Aydin, Drifting In The Cinema, and The Polite Society. Doors open at 7pm

Thank you so much to all of you who came out to the Holiday Extravaganza this year, by far you made it the best one yet! Gratzi mucho! (Can't wait for next year*

Upcoming:

January 25th So L'il will be playing on the fab New England Radio Show Phoning It In, featuring a live set phoned in to the show, which you should be able to check out here:
Phoning It In

(I Feel Tractor will also be doing this at some point in the not to distant future.)

And:
January 31st, 2007 @ Galapagos
70 North 6th St. (b/w Kent & Wythe), Williamsburg, Brooklyn
w/Drifting in the Cinema (featuring members of Lumipad), Aydin (from Pittsburgh)*, The Polite Society, and So L'il.

Happy New Year! Love,
Goodbye Better

ps: coming soon...Carny Love, The Musical*...

Goodbye Better Holiday Extravaganza This Saturday*

Dear Frenz,
Come celebrate the holiday season over cocktails with all the Goodbye Better muppets at our annual Goodbye Better Holiday Extravaganza*

This Saturday, December 30th,
10pm @ Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Cost: Free*

Featuring:

I Feel Tractor

Dustin Williamson

So L'il

This has been quite a lovely year here at Goodbye Better, seeing the release of I Feel Tractors debut full-length CD ‘Once I Had An Earthquake,’ Dustin Williamson’s chapbook ‘Heavy Panda,’ a handful of Cock-Now Zines (featuring poems by CA Conrad, Stacey Szymaszek, Mike Hauser, Corrine Fitzpatricks interview with Eileen Myles, music features on Apollo Heights, Ifwhen, Aydin, Reflectiostack, paintings by Katherine Betty Jones, Merry Parker, and tons of other stuff), The Clouds Go Soft & Post Pacino cd-r comps, the So L’il cd-r EPs ‘Gentle’ & ‘Bang Bang’,and the kitchen sink, featuring a partridge in a pear tree.

Thanks a million for all your support this year and Happy Holidays
Love,
Gooodbye Better

ps: new goodbye better holiday cd-rs @ the festivities, featuring the performers, free *

http://www.myspace.com/goodbyebetter
http://www.myspace.com/ifeeltractor
http://rustbuckle.blogspot.com/
http://solil.net


Also:

I Feel Tractor, Wednesday, December 6th @ Matchless
557 Manhattan Ave. (& Driggs), near Nassau G or Bedford L
w/The Feverfew, Rae Spoon
Cost: $5

So L'il, Thursday, December 21st, 10pm @ The Rock Star Bar
349 Kent Ave., Williamsburg, NY
(Under the Williamsburg Bridge)
Cost: Free*

Come celebrate Thanksgiving with us!*

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006 @ Pete's Candy Store

Free*

9pm - Scott Matthew

10pm - So L'il

10:40pm - Seaman & Queerfunkel

11:20pm - Clint, Michigian


Pete's Candy Store is located at 709 Lorimer St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn

http://petescandystore.com

Thanks!Much love,
Goodbye Better

ps: The So L'il album 'Dear Kathy,' is sold out! Fin! No more! Gratzi!*~

Heyheyhey,

Dustin Williamson (who's chapbook 'Heavy Panda' came out on Goodbye Better earlier this year) has a new online magazine which y'all should check out if ya have the time...Rustbuckle

Included in this issue are...Dodo Fest Travel Diary: Gina Myers, Luncheonette Fountain: Katy Henriksen, The Autobiography of Alan Alda: Mike Hauser, The Lists I Keep: Shannon Tharp, New American Poetry Movements for the Beginning of the End of the Decade: Dustin Williamson, and an interview with the inimitable CA Conrad Interview by Ben Malkin (of So L'il). CA Conrad is a Philadelphia resident and one of the greatest living poets on earth

If you have time, please check it out...*
Love,
Goodbye Better

[THE CLOUDS GO SOFT]
Saturday, September 23rd, 2006, 8:30pm
Live at Pete’s Candy Store

Featuring:

Clint Michigan

Scott Matthew

Larry Krone

So L'il

This show is ***FREE***
Pete’s Candy Store is located at
709 Lorimer St., Brooklyn, NY
www.petescandystore.com

Directions: Pete's Candy Store is located at 709 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn L to Lorimer Street or G to Metropolitan (~they're the same station): get out on the Lorimer St. side, or, if you get out on the Union side, walk one block down on Metropolitan (away from Kellogs Diner) and make a left onto Lorimer, go under the BQE and it's one more block down on the left.