Bed-Stuy

This terrific new spot will also house a ‘secret’ cocktail bar in the basement this fall.

Three years ago, Bed-Stuy native, VenetaTracey wrote her first single “Astral.” A smooth-sultry ballad that’s as sweet as it seductive. The single was released earlier this year, and is catching the ear of the local music underground. VenetaTracey is continuing to build momentum with the release of the the video for “Astral,” which can be watched below!

PHOTOGRAPHY Aubrey Wipfli When Adrian Daniel was in the fifth grade, he got left back. Not because he wasn’t smart, but because he didn’t attend summer school. That summer, Adrian’s mother had a planned a family vacation to Florida. Adrian wasn’t about to stay back in Brooklyn, so he finessed his mother into thinking that…

PHOTOGRAPHY DP Jolly STYLIST Brandon Davis SUBJECT Darnell L. Moore AGE 42 OCCUPATION Editor-at-Large at CASSIUS, Writer NEIGHBORHOOD Bed-Stuy What do you say to someone who’s fly without fail, every time you see them? Whose off-days, when they’ve just “thrown something together,” makes you reconsider what an on-day looks like? And who always looks as if…

Ask any vegan you know, and if they’re honest they’ll tell you that a lot of vegan food sucks. Not because plant-based food is naturally bland, but because most restaurants don’t care about vegans. As I’ve played with transitioning animal-based foods out of my diet, I’ve gotten a small taste of how bitter the struggle…

Age: 28 Pronouns: She/Her Neighborhood: Bed-Stuy Most Likely to: Stay in bed all day watching Fixer Upper on HGTV  Favorite Quote: “In the final analysis, it was between you and God, it was never between you and them, anyway.” – Mother Teresa Since her first Psych class, Naiylah knew she’d go into therapy. Currently, she…

Age: 26 Pronouns: She/Her Neighborhood: Bedford-Stuyvesant Most Likely to: Do it for the story Favorite Quote: “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.” – Audre Lorde If you ever want to understand a writer at their core, read their work. What a writer takes to the page is often more telling than anything they could hope…

Age: 26 Pronouns: He/Him Neighborhood: Bed-Stuy Most Likely To: pet the dog, eat too much fruit, or scream for fun Favorite Quote: “Make good art.” – Neil Gaiman Gabriel Gomez founded Crooked Letter Films—a bicoastal production and management agency, based in Williamsburg—to create visual narratives across various fields, including documentary, commercial, music video, and narrative….

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”…

Age: 27 Neighborhood: Bed-Stuy Most Likely to: Have a deep and heartfelt conversation with you upon meeting you Favorite Quote: “American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.” – James Baldwin Ashleigh Eubanks is a woman of few words. Not because she has…