As I step under an arch leading into Green-Wood Cemetery, a smiling woman instructs me to “follow the orbs,” directing my attention to dozens of…
Floating Food Forest Will Dock at Brooklyn Army Terminal This Summer
If you’d prefer to forage for food on a converted barge rather than wait in one more hellish line at Trader Joe’s, you’re in luck: Swale,…
Industry City Beefs Up With Another Restaurant, This One With Shuffleboard
Vincent Chirico, the chef and serial restaurateur behind Coarse in the West Village and Vai on the Upper West Side, opened a new restaurant today…
Watch the JT LeRoy Doc on a Roof and Try Not to Get Blown Away
As ’90s “it” author JT Leroy once put it in a book title, the heart is deceitful above all things. But not as deceitful as…
Immigrant Workers are Using Co-Ops Like a Boss
Three years ago, Daniel Lopez injured his knee. The 37-year-old native of Mexico never had health insurance, so he waited until the pain got so…
Get ‘Gentrifucked’ in Bushwick With Sunset Park ‘Boom Bap’ Hip-Hop Crew
Rising rents and changing neighborhoods got you down? Tonight head over to Bushwick’s main-squeeze community space, Mayday, for an art and music fest to commiserate…
Oh Look, It’s Your Near Future in Film
Rooftop Films Premiere Wednesday May 18 through August 2016 The summer al-fresco screening series turns 20 years old this season, which officially makes Rooftop Films…
Bruce High Quality Foundation Leaving East Village, Shows Off Brooklyn Base
Last night the mask-wielding artists of the Bruce High Quality Foundation opened up the doors of their epic new studio space in Sunset Park. The excuses were a party and…
Week in Film: Mom Without a Face and Revenge of the Teenage Girl
Sit back and enjoy some mind-rattling films screening this weekend and beyond. A new documentary brings us deep into the complex, overlapping layers of South…
Video: A Look Inside Industry City
Sunset Park has been a contender for next “it” neighborhood since 2013, when the team behind Chelsea Market took over Industry City. The six-million-square-foot warehouse…