Walt Whitman is the original Brooklyn bohemian
Whitman wrote for the Long Island Star and became the managing editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle through 1848, where…
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Where have all the lesbian bars gone? A guide to Brooklyn spaces for queer women
Lesbian bars have inexplicably disappeared, but the borough still has a number of decidedly safe spaces for gay women to…
Before it was multimillion dollar condos, Red Hook’s 160 Imlay was a site for shenanigans
What's now being marketed as a 'Super Penthouse' was once accessible only by a single rotted ladder – but what…
Experience 7 minutes in an ’80s Brooklyn crew in ‘Bury Me With the Lo On’
Released in conjunction with a book by the same name, the film consists of home videos showing the Lo Life…
60 years ago, the Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game
They cheered let's keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn, but now we recall how there used to be a ballpark. I never saw the…
Park Slope’s Pavilion did not have bedbugs, it has been posthumously revealed
One dog could change the storied theater's legacy. Kona, a bedbug sniffing dog, recently declared the Pavilion bedbug free,
Photos: Open hydrants, stoop hangouts – relive old school Brooklyn
Relive 20th century Brooklyn through one Italian family's photos, and the lovingly annotated pictures of Anthony Catalano.
10 of Brooklyn’s weirdest places from ‘Secret Brooklyn: An Unusual Guide’
Brooklyn's best kept secrets are often hidden in plain sight.
Jay-Z references Dumbo on his new album and gets his historic real estate values wrong
Lyrical artistry aside, Jay-Z's Dumbo real estate building appreciation estimations are a bit off.
Win a special access tour inside the NY State Pavilion with Untapped Cities
You know that crazy spaceship-lookin thing you occasionally drive past in Flushing? Now you can go inside.