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The best joke I’ve ever come up with, though I’m quite sure versions of it have existed for as long as this city has, goes like this: The first “Real New Yorker” was a 17th-century Dutch colonizer, who, within a few weeks of arriving on Manhattan’s shore, looked around at their developing settlement and complained…

The fight to reclaim and save the landmarked Paul Robeson Theater in Fort Greene and the Stuyvesant Mansion in Stuyvesant Heights is at or near its boiling point. On April 1, both buildings—previously owned by Dr. Josephine English, the late pioneering Black female obstetrician, who passed away in 2011—were put up for sale by court…

Twice a year, the clandestine food and beverage department of the French tire company behind the Michelin Guide announces new inclusions to its prestigious digital pages. And, for the first time in a long time, the action in Brooklyn does not appear to have been overlooked or discounted in any way. For its spring drop,…

Open Kitchen is a monthly interview column covering the joys and frustrations of Brooklyn restaurant operation in all its many forms. For April, we spoke to chef April Bloomfield and Gabriel Stulman, partners at Sailor in Fort Greene. An unusual event occurred a few weeks ago when Sailor—the platonic ideal of a neighborhood restaurant, added…

Open Kitchen is a monthly interview column covering the joys and frustrations of Brooklyn restaurant operation in all its many forms. For March, we spoke to Alan Delgado, the chef and owner of Los Burritos Juárez. I had a religious experience a few months ago. I waited for the initial block-long lines to die down,…

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…

Editor’s Note: When we partnered with American real estate company Douglas Elliman to present Brooklyn’s 20 Best Blocks, we wanted to make sure that this came from a sincere place—so we connected with Brooklyn’s own The Sunday Photographer a.k.a Matthew DeFrenza to take us on a journey throughout the borough to show us his favorite blocks. Douglas Elliman is New York…