Three Years After Sandy, the Red Hook Barnacle Parade Uses the Storm as an...
Red Hook celebrates surviving Sandy. all photos by Jane Bruce Three years ago yesterday, 12-year Red Hook resident Anne O’Neil was at home in her Richards Street kitchen cooking risotto. Her friends, a...
View ArticleNew Again: Thislexik and the Resurgence of Industrial Design
Vedat Ulgen is an inventor and designer of modern unconventional designs, who is leading a new wave of industrial design and functional art in Brooklyn with his studio and design collective, Thislexik...
View ArticleBorn Again: Seaborne
Seaborne 228 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook The latest addition to Red Hook’s quietly thriving cocktail scene debuted in January behind a wall of clouded, glittering glass bricks. Above the new bar hangs...
View ArticleSunny’s Nights: How a Red Hook Bar Became Brooklyn’s Most Magical Spot
When Sunny Balzano died in March of this year, Red Hook—and the entire city of New York—mourned the loss of a man who, to many, embodied a kind of quicksilver Brooklyn magic. He was the charming...
View ArticleThe 8 Best Pools in Brooklyn
As much as we hate to concede to the likes of Queens, or God forbid, Jersey, we know it’s true: Brooklyn is not known for its beaches. At least, not the type with pristine layers of perfect sand, clear...
View Article11 Major Brooklyn Restaurant Openings to Watch for this Fall
It may be cold comfort when faced with the loss of lazy beach days and summer Fridays, but fall is always prime season for restaurant launches–when rookie eateries aim to take advantage of their newly...
View ArticleDon’t Miss These Art Things, You Losers
Hillary’s fat and still has emails, a Filipino fisherman found a 75-pound pearl and then kept it hidden under his bed for ten years, and policemen in France are forcing women to take their clothes off....
View ArticleThis Weekend: The Best Art Openings
A weekly compendium of mostly Brooklyn-based art things. BRENNAN & GRIFFIN: WORM TURNS ATMOSPHERE — HEATHER GUERTIN Worm Turns Atmosphere is Heather Guertin’s second solo show with Brennan &...
View ArticleReel Brooklyn: Last Exit to Brooklyn, Red Hook
Reel Brooklyn is a monthly column chronicling the definitive history of Brooklyn on-screen, one film—and neighborhood—at a time. They finally adapted Hubert Selby Jr.’s 1964 cult classic Last Exit to...
View ArticleBrooklyn Real Estate: The Red Hook Edition
David Seiter, principal and design director of landscape architecture firm Future Green, describes Red Hook’s ecological origins, his latest projects, and the importance of planning for resiliency as...
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