The hottest pick-up scene in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, isn’t at The Woods or Hotel Delmano. It’s the dog shelter on North 1st Street and Wythe Avenue, where hipsters and Wall Street bankers alike have discovered a single man’s best friend: the stray dog.
BARC opens its doors to volunteers to exercise its 27 dogs Monday through Thursday evenings.
The managers aren’t blind to the selfish motives behind the seeming good Samaritans.
“A lot of people won’t admit it because they want you to think they’re there because it’s a good thing to do,” said BARC founder Vinny Spinola. “But I hear girls saying, ‘The guys are going to love me with this pitbull,’ and guys talking about how walking a dog is a chick magnet.”