By Matt Chaban 10/08/12 4:43pm

An Arena Grows in Brooklyn

When you're smilin', the whole borough smiles with you. (James Hamilton)

Brooklyn Brewery Founder Steve Hindy Still Loves the Barclays Center After All These Years

Even though the Barclays Center has yet to fully stock his beer, Brooklyn Brewery boss Steve Hindy still loves the project, as he makes plain in this email to The Observer, which we excerpted in the previous story. Even when people were hating on him for supporting the project, Mr. Hindy stood by it, and he believes prospered because of it. He covered a lot of territory in his note to us, so we figured why not post it in full. Read More

By Tom Acitelli 9/20/10 4:48pm

Drink

The Hophead: New York’s Great, Big Beer Hug

What: The Great American Beer Festival

Where: Denver, Colo.

Why: Because the Mile High City celebrates its craft beer culture in a way New York is just coming around to

The City of Denver, along with the trade group the Brewers Association, hosted a jolly bus tour of Denver’s more Read More

By Reid Pillifant 2/02/10 9:48pm

Chuck Schumer Is Ready to Rock

As it turns out, it was a fortuitous bike ride for backers of the Jelly Pool Parties in Williamsburg.

When Chuck Schumer rolled past one of the parties this summer he decided to check it out. “Schumer, a Brooklyn native who attended two of the Pool Parties this past summer, was struck by the quality Read More

By Chris Shott 5/22/07 11:24pm

Unlikely Power Broker Bullish on Brooklyn

Brooklyn Brewery C.E.O. Steve Hindy lately has been eyeballing an abandoned lot along the Gowanus Canal. The site of a demolished gas plant, the fenced-off eight-acre expanse of rubble, strewn with old tires and bundles of dumped newspapers, is overgrown with weeds and shrubs that somehow flourish in soil contaminated with coal tar and cyanide. Read More