Bohemian Rhapsody: Layered With History, a Prospect Heights Brownstone Embraces Color
Leaving original details intact, the new owner of a well preserved brownstone renovates and decorates with fearless eclecticism and unique personal style.
Schoolteacher’s Coup: Seeking an Integrated Neighborhood, a Couple Restores an 1899 House
Prospect-Lefferts Gardens was unusual when the duo first visited in 1974 and it remains unusual today because it is racially integrated.
Art Space: Jack Henry
The Bushwick-based artist's work incorporates objects he collects, including weeds, cigarette packets, chains, sticks and coffee cups among other commonplace debris.
Bed Stuy’s BLK MKT Vintage Celebrates Black Culture and History
When it opened in 2019, the quaint space in a historic building on a busy corner quickly attracted throngs of enthusiastic locals.
Scoop Up Your Copy of the Winter 2021 Issue of Brownstoner Magazine, Out Now
Don't miss advice from the founders of Bed Stuy’s BLK MKT Vintage, a Prospect Heights brownstone layered with artwork and vintage finds, and a community writing project that brought together Prospect-Lefferts Gardens.
Eden in Brooklyn: How the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Grew
Philanthropist Alfred Tredway White planted the seeds in the 1890s.
Bed Stuy’s The Narativ Provides a Platform for African Artisans to Tell Their Stories
More than just clothing, the store specializes in sharing the stories — hence the store’s name, The Narativ — behind the brands stocked.
A Brief History of Decorative Painting in Brooklyn and Beyond
When the historic homes we live in and admire in Brooklyn today were spanking new, they were often enhanced with decorative painting.
Going Back Home: Artist Paul Sue-Pat Brings Life to a Bed Stuy Townhouse
In art and life, a painter and sculptor looks to the past to inform the present in Bed Stuy.
Literary Expansion: Gowanus-Based Archipelago Books Travels the World for Titles
When Jill Schoolman founded Gowanus-based Archipelago Books in 2003, she wanted to broaden the literary landscape in the United States.
