When the Dow plummeted on Monday after Congress failed to pass a bailout for Wall Street’s many woes, Brooklyn’s creative class was already bracing itself. A downturn at the top of the food chain can’t bode well for those closer to the bottom, like the plethora of visual and performing artists that reside here.
As a chillier wind sliced through Brooklyn’s popular corridors last Saturday night, it was hard to imagine by the looks of things that anything was wrong with the economy. On North Sixth Street in Williamsburg, young women with Louis Vuitton bags teetered in Manolo Blahniks on the arms of their white-collared dates. Booze coursed through Read More
"First off, there’s no question–in my humble opinion–that the literary center of New York has moved to Brooklyn," said our oh-so-humble Borough President Marty Markowitz celebrating the Brooklyn Book Festival in the ornate lobby of Borough Hall this past Sunday. "The authors live here, the illustrators live here, and the energy–there’s that energy!–among residents of Read More
I love the Q train. O.K., I love the B, too, but it’s the Q that’s stolen my heart.
When I moved back to Brooklyn in January, the biggest factor in finding an apartment was its proximity to this train line, and especially to the 7th Avenue station (a nice change of pace after Read More
One of my favorite things about the suburbs are the supermarkets. I love the sprawling aisles, the enormous selection, the friendly cashier and, of course, the car that brings all those heavy, super-sized containers home.
Though the suburban life is plentiful in many ways, space is a major one, it is urban dwelling that Read More
"That’s Brooklyn Heights over there," said the 47-year-old driver of a Brooklyn-bound double-decker Gray Line tour bus, pointing across the East River. "Wherever there’s water, there’s money, and I don’t mean a puddle on the street."
I had just boarded the at the South Street Seaport, paid my $41 fare, and taken my seat Read More
"I just thought the whole thing was fabulous – what a great childhood you had!," responded my mom when I asked her why in the world she ever decided to raise her children in Manhattan. In the 1980s. On Eighth Avenue and 53rd Street. "You got to see a side of the world other kids Read More
"Atlantic City is the new Williamsburg," former Siberia bar owner and sometimes Fox contributor Tracy Westmoreland told me as the wind whipped through his long goatee at a rest stop somewhere in New Jersey.
He might not be wrong.
While Williamsburg has spent the last decade getting a face lift, Atlantic City did the Read More
"The lifestyle is so different in Texas," my friend Rhett said to me recently, citing cart space concerns at his local supermarket in South Slope. "Here it’s like you bump into each other and nobody acknowledges it."
It got me thinking about what a different, more spacious lifestyle would be like. Do we really need Read More
On a recent warm summer evening, two young professional couples sat idly chatting before a performance of Hamlet at Central Park’s Delacorte Theater.
"Have you been to the new Ikea in Red Hook?" one of the young men asked his companions, receiving a chorus of "no, not yet!" in response.
On came a list Read More
