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Category: News

The Way Station is bringing a summer music festival to Prospect Heights

Its summer festival season, and as we've gone over before, that isn't really that exciting because summer festivals are often…

More terrifying than sharks: Times Square Elmos aim for Coney Island

There's a new Biblical plague in town. It comes in all shapes and sizes, but it's making a torrential descent…

Thursday lunchtime linkage

This writer tried haggling for everything. It only kinda worked [Business Insider] Whole Paycheck diverts overcharging accusations by blaming its employees [Salon]…

Oh, what a world: the Gowanus Canal’s floating dome has sunk to its watery death

It turns out that even a giant piece of floating debris can't survive in the Gowanus Canal. There's really no hope…

Wednesday lunchtime linkage

This cop really hates cyclists [DNA Info] Hey this coming of age comedy set in Staten Island looks pretty good…

‘Stocks are the next Brooklyn!’ proclaim very odd rich people

Oh Lord what is even going on here with this? [S]tocks may now be a little too trendy, just like the…

Tuesday lunchtime linkage

The city's first micro-apartment building is all stacked up [Curbed] Phone booths becoming internet portals is really happening [Science Burger]…

Park Slope man builds public bathrooms for dogs, returns weirdness to neighborhood

Man, remember when we talked about how Park Slope was maybe losing its mojo earlier this year? Looks like we…

Monday lunchtime linkage

Life inside Rikers, as told by the people who have to be there [New York Mag] Ditmas Park Dunkin Donuts…

By royal decree, you’re invited to the coronation of Brooklyn’s King and Queen

When Jay and Bey called it quits on the borough this year, we sought to elect a new King and…