{"id":315879,"date":"2026-08-07T07:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T07:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315879\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T07:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T07:17:11","slug":"checkmate-north-brooklyn-chess-club-sets-up-summer-residency-at-the-mccarren-parkhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315879\/","title":{"rendered":"Checkmate: North Brooklyn Chess Club Sets Up Summer Residency at the McCarren Parkhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\tOverview:<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the summer of chess at the McCarren Parkhouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born out of the pandemic, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/northbrooklynchess\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">North Brooklyn Chess Club<\/a> got its start as a pre-party fixture at the Greenpoint bar <a href=\"https:\/\/greenpointers.com\/2025\/08\/19\/ponyboy-manhattan-avenue-nightlife-hotspot-quietly-closes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Ponyboy<\/a>, where neighbors gathered around chessboards before the evening crowds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This summer, the chess club has found a new home through its residency at the <a href=\"https:\/\/mccarrenparkhouse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">McCarren Parkhouse<\/a>(855 Lorimer St.) hosting weekly chess nights every Thursday from 7 to 11pm. Whether you are\u2026<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overview: It&#8217;s the summer of chess at the McCarren Parkhouse. Born out of the pandemic, the North Brooklyn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,1882,17,1418,2422,311,119139,9,24,119140,63,11304,1424],"class_list":["post-315879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-community","tag-culture","tag-featured-article","tag-greenpoint","tag-happenings","tag-heather-brown","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-north-brooklyn-chess-club","tag-nyc","tag-summer","tag-williamsburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}