This reporter heard from a friend last night that they had seen a line for gas on Empire Boulevard, on the border of Brooklyn’s Crown Heights and Flatbush neighborhoods, that stretched for 10 blocks. Meanwhile, special corespondent Ian Lamb came upon this scene in Kensington: Read More
Editor’s note: Welcome to There Goes the Neighborhood, an occasional feature on trends that presage where New York’s neighborhoods are headed.
The Sycamore, on Cortelyou Road in Kensington, Brooklyn, is the sort of whimsical establishment only a freshly gentrifying neighborhood can support. A combination florist and bar, The Sycamore also inexplicably sells high-end bath products, Read More
Brooklyn Paper senior reporter Mike McLaughlin just got dumped — now he needs a new girlfriend and, more importantly, a new apartment.
Cue the cameras! Mr. McLaughlin will be chronicling his search for love and shelter in a new weekly video segment called "The Search."
"It’s a classic New York story," said his Read More
Brooklyn’s favorite son
How does does your unknown band get to open for indie-rock messiah Sufjan Stevens? According to a press release penned by the young legend himself, it doesn’t hurt to be his “Brooklyn neighbor”–though band-mate and “close friend” are helpful as well. (Mr. Stevens hails from un-hip Kensington).
Shara Worden, aka My Read More
Al on America , by Al Sharpton, with Karen Hunter. Kensington Publishing, 304 pages, $27.
Al Sharpton recently had a meeting with Al Sharpton. It was, he says, one of the most important events of his adult life, and it occurred in prison, during a 90-day sentence for protesting U.S. military bases in Vieques, Puerto Read More
