Extravagance, redefined: A tour through the Dyker Heights Christmas lights
If you’ve only heard of the Christmas lights of Dyker Heights, it’s pretty easy to be dismissive. Home Christmas displays…
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25 gifts under $25, No. 20: Bushwick Happy Hour prints!
Cocktails are classy affairs (except for the ones I make, maybe). Knowing about cocktails is classy as well. So how…
Writers: A group in Detroit wants to give you a free house
Writing. It's a tough racket, especially if you aspire to do anything loftier than say mean things about people's terrible…
Effort underway to co-name LES corner after the Beastie Boys
The Beastie Boys already have one member of the group, with Adam Yauch Park in Brooklyn Heights. Of course, given…
25 gifts under $25, No. 19: Garden bon bons!
One of the major downsides of the holiday season is that it all goes down when the whole world is…
Wednesday lunchtime linkage
Pictures of New York from those far off days known as the 90s [Gizmodo] Today is Robert Moses' birthday. No…
You, yes you, can go to Bill de Blasio’s inauguration for free
Well, the day is rapidly approaching, like a snowball rolling down a mountain and growing cartoonishly larger: Bill de Blasio…
Be Badass, Brooklyn: Drink a Smuttynose, save a dog, now through Saturday
Possibly the only thing better in life than beer is a dog, mostly owing to the fact that dogs can…
What’s cheaper, the new Brooklyn Whole Foods or nearby Union Market?
Whole Foods opened in Gowanus yesterday to stampede-like crowds and consumers happy to finally have somewhere to buy high-end groceries…
25 gifts under $25, No. 18: 3D printed clip-on vase!
We’ve all been there: You’re meeting someone on a date; they come to pick you up and bring flowers. You…