It's little known among the denizens of Greenpoint, but McCarren Park resides in the Re-Incipient Canton of Broken Bridge in the Crown Province of a region that, according to the fictional geography of the Society for Creative Anachronism, encompasses New York City as well as Nassau, Westchester, and Putnam counties. While members of the SCA, an international organization that is devoted to re-creating the arts and skills of pre-17th-century Europe, might scarcely raise an eyebrow at a Ren Faire or gothic fete, taken completely out of context and placed in an everyday setting—say, under a cluster of spotlights between a Hasidic softball team and a band of hellions from the nearby Automotive High School—they are a... More >>>