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Community & Commerce
|Jan 19, 2024
The nonprofit’s next free book giveaway will be held at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on February 3.
Community & Commerce
|Apr 7, 2022
A 50-block, very residential area is sitting on an oil and chemical plume toxic enough to warrant a federal emergency response.
Arts & Leisure
|Apr 8, 2024
‘You either fuck with my music or you don’t,’ says the rapper-producer of his solo debut ‘I’ve Never Been Here Before.’
Community & Commerce
|Mar 20, 2024
An afternoon spent strolling with the ‘soft, outdoorsy’ NYC Queer Birders crew through McCarren Park.
Food & Drink
|Mar 11, 2024
The Brooklyn restaurant group I co-founded in 2011 is serving its last dishes. Here’s how it all went down.
Community & Commerce
|Jan 4, 2024
A blueprint for Brooklyn, and those of us who live here, to have the best 2024 possible — within and without reason.
Food & Drink
|Dec 11, 2023
We ate at 100 new places in the borough this year so you didn’t have to. These were our favorites.
Arts & Leisure
|Oct 31, 2023
From gastropubs to omakase, Brooklyn has some of the world’s best kosher dining outside of Israel.
Food & Drink
|Oct 9, 2023
The superstar chef behind ‘the world’s best restaurant’ gives Brooklyn the city’s most thrilling new eatery of the year.
Arts & Leisure
|Sep 28, 2023
Actress Pauline Chalamet (‘The Sex Lives of College Girls’) stars in and co-produced ‘What Doesn’t Float.’
Arts & Leisure
|Sep 25, 2023
The humorist talks about her childhood, Philip Roth, Charles Mingus, NYC mayors, getting old and still having fun.
Community & Commerce
|Sep 4, 2023
A former staffer for New York’s Landmark Preservation Commission gives us a glimpse at its inner workings.
Community & Commerce
|Aug 21, 2023
Journalist Clive Thompson cycled 4,150 miles from coast to coast as reporting for his next book on ‘micromobility.’
Food & Drink
|Jul 31, 2023
The mother-daughter duo behind the acclaimed Palestinian restaurant reflect on a quarter century of success — and discuss what’s next.
Food & Drink
|Jun 19, 2023
A new cookbook, ’50 Pies, 50 States,’ is an exploration of Fong’s adoptive home, and a love letter to the people she’s met along the way.
Arts & Leisure
|Mar 13, 2023
The artist and public radio producer discusses 21 years of writing Jennifer Mills News, her non-award-winning weekly newspaper.
Community & Commerce
|Mar 1, 2023
Welcome to the club: Elsewhere’s new offering is designed for Brooklyn’s ‘Freaks,’ ‘Explorers’ and ‘Patron Saints.’
Arts & Leisure
|Feb 13, 2023
No FOMO necessary: Five Brooklyn style mavens tell us exactly how they spent their opening day of NYFW.
Food & Drink
|Jan 26, 2023
A little slice of home for owner Noriko Jimbo, The Last Call offers authentic Japanese skewers and an audio experience to boot.
Community & Commerce
|Jan 16, 2023
“We’re chipping away at one of those last grand old taboos,” Gatto says on this episode of “Brooklyn Magazine: The Podcast.”
Arts & Leisure
|Jan 9, 2023
The journalist and humor writer discusses his career, trucker movies, and what he’s learned about comedy from the best to ever do it.
Community & Commerce
|Jan 9, 2023
Collaborators Antonio Muniz and Sam Finger have created something that’s “not just a clothing brand and not just fine art.”
Community & Commerce
|Jan 6, 2023
(That aren’t L Train Vintage or Beacon’s Closet.)
Arts & Leisure
|Jan 2, 2023
The host of the viral new TikTok account “Keep the Meter Running” (among other things) talks about his very prolific 2022.
Community & Commerce
|Dec 13, 2022
Think local, shop local and then ship to your uncle in Milwaukee.
Arts & Leisure
|Dec 12, 2022
A trailblazing queer photographer who embodied the grit of 1970s and ’80s NYC gets the retrospective he deserves at Brooklyn Museum.
Food & Drink
|Nov 17, 2022
It’s not going far, though: The beloved brewer is relocating four blocks north to the Greenpoint-Williamsburg border.
Arts & Leisure
|Nov 14, 2022
The comedian and “Bob’s Burgers” actor is at the Bell House this week with Bobcat Goldthwait and company — to launch a record label.
Arts & Leisure
|Jun 4, 2022
The season 19 winner has worked in some of the fanciest kitchens in the world, but feels at home eating street food—and at Roberta’s.
Arts & Leisure
|Apr 28, 2022
The Brooklyn Nets’ home court is the only New York City sports venue that doesn’t serve draft beer.
Community & Commerce
|Mar 23, 2022
Out of a cramped garage on Dean Street, Terry Swords is keeping a subculture alive, one Seeburg at a time.
Food & Drink
|Dec 8, 2021
And it has a lot of hype to live up to: Calvin Eng nails it with his new Cantonese American restaurant in Williamsburg, inspired by his mom.
Community & Commerce
|Nov 17, 2021
The pandemic created room to explore one’s passions, and these Brooklyn residents took full advantage by saying ‘yes, and …’
Community & Commerce
|Sep 29, 2021
Shelby Veazey has spent the past year collecting NY’s finest discarded items and finding them new homes—for a small fee.
Community & Commerce
|Jul 30, 2021
Not all heroes wear capes. A roundup of (some of) our favorite locally sourced tweets for the week ending July 30.
Community & Commerce
|Jul 12, 2021
As Topps turns 70, a look at its Sunset Park roots, the fabled ’52 Mickey Mantle, the boom and bust of the ’90s—and today’s resurgence.
Arts & Leisure
|Jun 28, 2021
In ‘FEVER,’ Allen Frame’s candid 1981 photos capture a time of hope and innocence—and they are all the more tragic for it.
Arts & Leisure
|May 4, 2021
Novelist Georgia Clark’s fifth tells the story of five couples that intersect with one doomed wedding planner duo.
Community & Commerce
|Apr 22, 2021
The pandemic has been hard on all of Brooklyn’s parks but its biggest comes with unique challenges. Enter the Marine Park Alliance.
Arts & Leisure
|Apr 7, 2021
The 2020 minor league season was canceled due to Covid, but the championship ‘Baby Bums’ return to the diamond on May 4.
Community & Commerce
|Feb 12, 2021
Beyond looking cool, Williamsburg’s zig-zagged balconies play an important role in Hasidic culture.
Arts & Leisure
|Jan 20, 2021
From ‘Covid officers’ to auditioning via Zoom, five industry professionals share what’s changed—and what hasn’t.
Arts & Leisure
|Jul 11, 2018
Name: KrisAnne Madaus Occupation: Print and Digital Production at Vanity Fair Age: 26 Neighborhood: East Williamsburg On Look One: Shania Twain tee under a white Dries Van Noten men’s button down, AG denim, Calvin Klein booties, and unbranded red leather gloves. The tee is a hand-me-down from a friend. Why anyone would give it up is…
Food & Drink
|Jun 25, 2018
Photos by DP Jolly A few coworkers and I were sitting in my office discussing passion projects and things that we do outside of work. As I was talking about people I interviewed for Brooklyn Magazine, one of my coworkers said, “You should meet my friend Thi.” “We went to USC [University of South Carolina] together,…
Food & Drink
|Jan 23, 2018
Age: 22 Pronouns: She/her Neighborhood: Bed-Stuy Most Likely to: Have a dollhouse in their adult home Favorite Quote: “If you go home with somebody, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ’em!” – John Waters Food isn’t generally a medium associated with art, but that hasn’t stopped Emma Orlow. After studying “Food Art as Body Politics”…
Arts & Leisure
|Mar 1, 2016
by the Editors That Brooklyn has an abundance of creatively minded and culturally significant residents is not really news—this has long been the case. Now though, the borough feels more than ever like a cultural nexus, wherein once marginalized voices and outsider perspectives are now a major part of our cultural conversation. And so what…
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