Brooklyn Flea Moving to Dumbo on Sundays as Williamsburg Site Gets Major Cleanup
The Sunday Brooklyn Flea is moving nabes yet again for the market’s ninth season, leaving Williamsburg for its old Dumbo location.
How Ruth Bader Ginsburg Made It From Midwood to the Supreme Court
The Notorious RBG, as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is known to her fans, shares a home borough with the original Notorious title holder — the late rapper Biggie Smalls, aka the Notorious B.I.G.
Read on for a brief history of the Brooklyn-born justice.
5 Classic Irish Pubs Ripe for St. Paddy’s Day Festivities in Brooklyn
St. Patrick’s Day is fast approaching (it’s Thursday, March 17), and with it comes the need for a guide to some of Brooklyn’s best Irish bars.
Cocaine Break-ins and Broadway Strolls: The Life of a 1960s Brooklyn Pharmacist
A lifelong Brooklynite, Kenny Frishberg, this writer’s grandfather, began working at Fair Trade Pharmacy in Midwood in 1954. In the nearly 40 years he worked there — he retired in 1993 –he watched Brooklyn change and morph all the while he filed prescriptions.
Brian Wilson Will Play All of ‘Pet Sounds’ at This Summer’s Northside Festival
While the summer may still feel a little ways away, Williamsburg’s eighth annual Northside Festival is already gearing up for its June multimedia showcase, with the headliners just announced.
Start Gardening Season Right at the Making Brooklyn Bloom Event This Weekend
New York’s brief winter seems to have thawed, and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is celebrating with its 35th annual Making Brooklyn Bloom event this Saturday, March 12.
Brooklynite You Should Know: Harry Nilsson
Everybody’s talkin’ bout him — but do any of them realize that he’s from Brooklyn?
Where in Wallabout Did Walt Whitman Write ‘Leaves of Grass’?
Much is known about the life of Brooklyn literary king Walt Whitman, but can you locate the residence where he penned his opus?
‘Taxi Driver’ Was (Partially) Filmed in Brooklyn and Here’s the Pic to Prove It
You talkin’ to me? Brownstoner reader Andrew Porter dug up this image of a young Cybill Shepherd and Martin Scorsese posing between shoots of the 1976 film Taxi Driver — in Brooklyn.
Final Performance of Black Art Series to Explore Issues of Police Violence Through Dance
As February draws to a close so does Black Artstory Month, an annual, monthlong series of free events related to the black experience put on by the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership.