Belgian multimedia producer François Vaxelaire launched Lot Radio out of a reclaimed shipping container on a small lot on Brooklyn’s Williamsburg/Greenpoint border, hosting live DJ sets and talk shows, and streaming them from the Lot’s website 24/7 (thelotradio.com). The 20-foot-long black shipping container is equipped with a club-standard DJ booth and a fully functioning coffee counter, which now also sells pastries and sandwiches. Although the project is backed by house and techno veterans, Vaxelaire says he aims to cater to a wide array of music fans, using the shipping container as literal common ground. "It’s the connection between the online and the offline world," he says. The Lot Radio also has an outdoor space where you can buy coffee, beer, wine and snacks to be enjoyed on-site or to go!

Greenpoint has its own radio station in a shipping container

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