Brooklyn Academy of Music

This summer will mark 50 years since Stevie Wonder released his towering, Grammy-winning triple-album, Songs in The Key of Life. For myriad Wonder fans, the golden anniversary of his 1976 magnum opus is cause enough to celebrate. And while many would rightfully argue the sheer scale and prolificacy of the Motown maestro’s output over his…

For all its supertalls, high-rises, scaffolding, and henge-worthy structures, it’s easy to dismiss Downtown Brooklyn as a side quest to a stay, overnight or extended, in the County of Kings. But it’s 2026, and the district, more of a nexus of neighborhoods than one defined by firm cultural or geographic boundaries, has bloomed well beyond…

For many a New Yorker, the Hoyt-Schermerhorn stop is an inconspicuous, seemingly incomplete, and borderline unpronounceable part of their respective commutes. Starting this week, though, locals will get a chance to see the Downtown Brooklyn station as more than a cavernous, half-open backdrop to their subway transfers. In celebration of Hoyt-Schermerhorn’s 90th year in service,…

It’s a new year, which can mean only one thing: time to listen to better music so you can impress your friends with your next Spotify Wrapped! Do you really want people to see you listened to that much Taylor Swift? To help you out, we’ve included a number of great live music shows this…

Paul Mescal, the rising Irish actor who starred in Hulu’s Normal People and the Oscar-nominated Aftersun, is about to make his American theater debut in Brooklyn, according to the New York Times. Mescal will reprise his role as Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams’ classic play A Streetcar Named Desire in a Brooklyn Academy of Music production…

PHOTOGRAPHY John Midgley The first time Jamie Hector visited BAM, in Fort Greene, he was 21. As the youngest of seven to a Haitian mother—who worked as a nursing assistant—Jamie lived in Brooklyn his whole life. Repping East Flatbush and Crown Heights, he had heard about BAM, and even passed it a few times, but…