Last chance to try Brooklyn Brewery’s Monster Ale this week
For those of us who knew Monster the Cat, the Brooklyn Brewery’s official mascot cat (mascat?) and tasting room host, the passing of…
Category: Neighborhoods
Free on Craiglist: ‘8 to 10 boxes’ of plastic fruit in DUMBO
If you pay any attention to the valuable lessons Michelle Obama and Cookie Monster have taught us, you know fruit…
Gowanus bridge turning into a light show for 2 weeks
When was the last time you went to a laser light show, that youthful rite of hand holding and possibly…
Windsor Terrace is getting a food co-op now too
You've gotta feel for the people of Windsor Terrace, caught between Park Slope and Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and their residents' constant…
Conscientious Turkey’s Nest drinkers endorse styrofoam ban
We all knew that there would be some consequences after the city announced that styrofoam containers were no longer welcome…
Hey subway nerds: Register for the Transit Museum’s Transit Trivia today!
Calling all transit nerds: are you the Baroness of the B48? The Wolf of the Wall Street 2/3 station? A…
Bushwick Coffee Shop, whose owner called Jews ‘greedy infiltrators,’ closes
For all of the many, many places in Brooklyn that closed last year, there was one that remained open despite…
Southways: The Brooklyn Winery is expanding to Crown Heights
Winos of Crown Heights, unite. At least if you can afford a $10 to $16 glass of wine, unite, because…
Party like it’s 1997: Drafts at The Gate are $5 this month
Ah, 1997, a much simpler time. The economy was humming along, built on a rickety claptrap of cheap money that…
Chocolate factory gentrified out of Manhattan accused of gentrifying Sunset Park
Brooklyn's been going through a lot of changes--some cool, some lousy--but we've always been able to take comfort in the…