Sep 20, 2013

By Elyssa Goodman   Almost everyone who comes to Coney Island is a tourist, and honestly that’s part of the fun! How often do we get to be tourists in our own city, staring up at the skyline or out into the water and enjoying even for a few hours a getaway from the madness of city life? At Coney Island, you get to do that and be a kid again, hot dogs,...

Mar 15, 2013

You won’t find a vast array of nightclubs in Brooklyn. Instead, you will find a collection of bars where last call is at 4 a.m., and there’s not a bouncer in sight. Brooklyn’s nightlife isn’t about VIP rooms, and bottle service. It’s about casual drinking, and prompt refills of your glass. If you’re a beer fan, you’ll want to head to Radegast Hall...

Mar 4, 2013

This year is the 10th anniversary for ‘Dine in Brooklyn,’ an annual event that brings the borough’s best restaurants out, hoping to lure new customers to their dining rooms. The event offers three-course lunches for around $20, and dinners for $28. The meals are packed up and ready for you to take with you to work, or you can take them home to the...

Much like the Dodgers did when they were Brooklyn’s lone professional sports team, the Brooklyn Nets have embraced their involvement in all aspects of the community. The team, looking to make the playoffs for the first time since the 2006-2007 season, is reopening a basketball gymnasium at the Navy Yard Clubhouse of the Madison Square Boys and Girls Club. The...

Following the development of the Brooklyn Bridge, the land surrounding it became a thriving public waterfront. What had been the Fulton Ferry Landing area, before the demise of the ferries, became over 40 piers and approximately 150 store and warehouses. In 1950, New York’s older port areas lost ground to container shipping and competition from other east...