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What are the answers to Brooklyn’s unsolved summer mysteries?

We here at Brokelyn are sadly aware that Summer '14 ended in spirit yesterday, on Labor Day. This year's summer…

Costumes, bongo cops and…Ronald McDonald? The 2014 West Indian Day Parade in pictures

On a sweltering Labor Day in a summer that seems to only be getting started, politicians and dancers alike waved…

Sunday Reads

On Sushi: "That’s like shaking your wanker in public." [Vice] On Chateaux: “It is what we all dream for ourselves.”…

Thursday lunchtime linkage

Everything's going GREAT with Atlantic Yards construction! (There's another delay) [WSJ] Whoops, someone lost their bottomless brunch serving privileges [NBC4]…

Wednesday lunchtime linkage

Finally, Bushwick gets the gravitas it deserves [New Yorker] Uber's scheming on a thing - that's sabotage! [The Verge] Aaaand a…

Poetry in Motion comes to buses, but can it tear us away from Tinder?

Public transit is full of people trying to force culture on you, what with all the fairly talented street performers…

NYPD union comes out against DNC in Brooklyn, since New York is a crime-ridden hellhole

When it comes to the DNC in Brooklyn, there are powerful forces in favor and opposed to it. In favor…

Tuesday lunchtime linkage

Duane Reade is New York's most expensive drug store [Scouting New York] Ideas for more affordable housing, so Brooklyn doesn't…

350 years ago today, the hated British arrived to take New Amsterdam

In what would become a long-running theme throughout its history, today marks the anniversary of one of the first invasions…

BAM is holding a throwback subway film series

Ever catch your friends complaining about how the subways have no character anymore? First of all, remind them that riders…