AvatarThe New York TimesAvatarAvatarBlock by Block: Fort Greene (Published 2015)verified_publisherThe New York TimesFort Greene, Brooklyn, is the focus of the next video in our new monthly series, “Block by Block.” Watch for future installments from neighborhoods around the city. Known for its stately brownstones and its namesake park, Fort Greene is ever evolving and is now at the heart of the booming Brooklyn …
AvatarThe New York TimesAvatarAvatarGrowing Families That Stay Put (Published 2015)verified_publisherThe New York Times - Jennifer MillerRyan and Moira Goepfert were elated when they were selected for student housing at Columbia University. The move would put them in a renovated doorman building across from campus, and it would save them $600 a month in rent. But after Mr. Goepfert visited the quiet hallways of the university …
AvatarThe New York TimesAvatarAvatarReinventing the Brooklyn Navy Yard (Published 2015)verified_publisherThe New York Times - C. J. HughesThe area by the Brooklyn Navy Yard can seem forbidding. Hulking warehouses line Flushing Avenue, a wide and busy street that hugs the yard for 16 blocks, while the yard, a massive former military complex turned manufacturing center, is almost totally enclosed by tall fences and walls. “It’s …
AvatarThe New York TimesAvatarAvatarWhen Neighbors Tangle Online (Published 2015)verified_publisherThe New York Times - Ronda KaysenComplaining about the co-op or condominium board is practically a blood sport in New York, an unfortunate side effect of living under the rule of elected volunteers. Usually, disputes go no further than a heated exchange at the annual meeting. Much like a family feud, the dirty laundry is rarely …
AvatarThe New York TimesAvatarAvatarIslanders Face a Mixed Welcome in Their New Brooklyn Home (Published 2015)verified_publisherThe New York Times - Vivian YeeThe logo would remain the same: the block N, the Y with a hockey stick for a leg, the orange map of Long Island that just happened to leave out the inconveniently citified, if geographically attached, Brooklyn and Queens. The public address announcer would make the trip from Nassau County to Kings, …
AvatarThe New York TimesAvatarAvatarExcelsior, Gay Bar in Brooklyn, Reopens (Published 2015)verified_publisherThe New York Times - Brian SloanAfter a 15-year run, Excelsior, the go-to gay bar in Park Slope, closed a year ago when the building was sold; local guys found themselves suddenly without their de facto living room. Like other things in the increasingly pricey neighborhood, the bar moved south, reopening in August in a larger …
AvatarThe New York TimesAvatarAvatarEscape From Brooklyn (Published 2015)verified_publisherThe New York Times - David ZweigIt was 7:30 p.m. and I was struggling to get my 2-year-old and my 4-year-old into bed. Techno music pounded directly below their bedroom, rattling the floorboards. I bounded downstairs, and after a heated exchange with the neighbor, who refused to turn down the music, I returned to our apartment. I …
AvatarThe New York TimesAvatarAvatarVideo: Movie Review: ‘Brooklyn’verified_publisherThe New York TimesThe Times critic A. O. Scott reviews “Brooklyn.”
AvatarThe New York TimesAvatarAvatarConey Island Culture, at the Brooklyn Museum (Published 2015)verified_publisherThe New York Times - Ken JohnsonIt is a microcosm of American popular culture in all its ersatz glory, the anti-Disneyland, a realm of tawdry spectacle and mindless distraction catering to the basic instincts of hoi polloi. It is, of course, Coney Island, whose history and culture are chronicled in “Coney Island: Visions of an …
AvatarThe New York TimesAvatarAvatarBrooklyn Expats Come Home (Published 2015)verified_publisherThe New York Times - Ronnie KoenigThe average person will move 11.7 times in his or her lifetime, census data shows. Of these homes, many will be fondly remembered, but once the tape is sealed on the last moving box, rarely do people continue to regularly visit their old stamping grounds. That is, unless the last place they lived …
AvatarThe New York TimesAvatarAvatarVideo: Block by Block | Park Slopeverified_publisherThe New York TimesBlock by Block | Park Slope Historic brownstones and celebrated Prospect Park help make Park Slope one of New York’s most family-friendly — and pricey — neighborhoods. No script. Block by Block | Park Slope June 23, 2015 Historic brownstones and celebrated Prospect Park help make Park Slope one of New …
AvatarThe New York TimesAvatarAvatarCrown Heights, Brooklyn, Where Stoop Life Still Thrives (Published 2015)verified_publisherThe New York Times - Alison GregorCrown Heights was one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Brooklyn at the turn of the last century, and the alluring architecture of that era, along with new residential development, is attracting newcomers and spurring rapid change. Roughly two square miles, with about 130,000 residents, Crown …