Whitman wrote for the Long Island Star and became the managing editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle through 1848, where he editorialized daily life in Brooklyn, even advocating for public green space in Brooklyn Heights and Fort Greene. 

The 1950s are largely seen as a decade of uncool, right before the bubbling coolness under the surface of the country exploded […]

Brooklyn has a ton of history, which makes sense, what with it being a huge part of the greatest city in the […]

There’s nothing like finding a spot where, if you squint and hold your head at a really specific angle and ignore the […]

Brooklyn is quite old, were you aware? And because of that, there’s basically history on every corner of our fair borough. And […]

On this day 130 years ago, 150,000 people took the first steps across the then-longest suspension bridge in the world: the Brooklyn […]

It’s hard to believe that Brooklyn hasn’t always been the blogging, handmade, farm-to-table, indie-band-loving, summer-outdoor-movie-watching fairytale land that it is today. Fact […]

We laughed when Watson wrote “What is Toronto?” in final jeopardy last month, but we should have wept. Robots can do enough […]

Let’s face it: dating is expensive and there’s no guarantee of ROI. So why spend a bundle to make a good impression […]