Lucy Tang

On Sundays this summer, Bedford Avenue swarmed with hipsters heading west—of Bedford, that is. Every summer since 2006, McCarren Park Pool has been home to the vastly popular, free JellyNYC Pool Parties, though on August 25, the pool was unfortunately shuttered as a concert venue.

One of the final JellyNYC McCarren Park Pool shows, last Sunday was an exciting day with a four band line-up:Tall Firs, King Khan & the Shrines, Deerhunter, and the Black Lips.

Even the constant threat of stormy weather and thunderstorms could not scare away the massive lines for Sunday's MGMT show at McCarren Park Pool—people were lining up at 10 a.m. and many had to wait for hours to actually enter the pool.

Rarely are book titles as painfully obvious as Keith Gessen’s All the Sad Young Literary Men.