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The Latest Trend in Slumming It: Night Court!

NBC’s Night Court has been off the air for more than two decades, but its setting has recently become a favorite for visitors to New York, who gather to watch the offenders that every night hustle...

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Why Doesn’t Brooklyn Have Better Vegetarian Restaurants?

The only good vegetarian in Brooklyn? Via Vegpod Only one Brooklyn spot made the list of the city’s 12 best vegetarian restaurants Gothamist published yesterday; 10 of them are in Manhattan, and the...

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Woody Allen’s Films Ranked By Age Disparity

What a nice image of a girl and her father! Yesterday, the trailer for Woody Allen’s latest movie, Magic in the Moonlight, was released and everyone who had momentarily forgotten about the director’s...

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New Express M60 Bus Makes Getting To LaGuardia A Lot Less Awful

Photo via Columbia Spectator Starting today, getting to LaGuardia Airport becomes less of a potential for an “I Survived” scare piece (mine involved waiting in a 40-person line in the dark, in the rain...

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Brooklyn Does Manhattan: A Roundup Of BK Businesses In The City

Image: Dumbo NYC The last year has been a strange one for the sometimes contentious but ultimately loving Brooklyn-Manhattan relationship. For the first time, a flood of Brooklyn businesses are...

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NYPD Busting Cyclists Exiting The Williamsburg Bridge

Image: Behind The Hype If you’re a cyclist who happens to pedal across the Williamsburg Bridge to Manhattan, you’ll want to proceed with caution. The NYPD has started ticketing cyclists once they...

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The Rise In Some Brooklyn Rents Might Be Slowing Down While Manhattan’s...

One more year of not having to move in with your parents! Some possibly good news has arrived on the wave of this weird, foggy cold front. According to a just-released Elliman Report, Brooklyn’s median...

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Now Open: Free Weekend Ferry From Red Hook To Manhattan

The Red Hook summer ferry is back! After a not-so-brief hiatus, residents of the semi-isolated neighborhood now have completely free access to Manhattan (and Manhattanites to Red Hook) as of this past...

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Why Is Brooklyn’s Flag So Lame?

If you aren’t familiar, Brooklyn has a flag. And it’s a bummer. It’s plain white, first of all, with a sort of wonky blue oval shape at the center. Inside the oval is a bored-looking woman in a yellow...

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Smorgasburg Is Bringing A Night Market To Central Park

Image: MichaelMinn.net Though there’s no shortage of food markets in Manhattan, we Brooklynites do have something over them. Smorgasburg is the be-all-end-all of food markets and everyone knows ot...

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James Agee’s Brooklyn Is

179–183 St. James Place, Clinton Hill. The top floor of 179 (left) was home to James Agee, his wife, and a goat (apparently) from 1938 to 1939. Although best known as the author of A Death in the...

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Sunday Night Is The Only Way To Deal With Manhattan

Here at Brooklyn Magazine, we give the New York Times a lot of flak, mostly for their perennial that’s-not-actually-a-trend trend pieces, the occasional questionably racist profile, and every so...

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Be Glad You Don’t Live Here: Brooklyn’s Longest Walk to the Subway

A statistician and visiting assistant professor at Pratt Institute has discovered the Brooklyn residence that is farthest from any subway: 2336 National Drive in Mill Basin. See how your place...

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There Are Still Some Manhattanites Who Think Brooklyn Is a Foreign Country...

But do you need a passport to cross here? (NO.) The New York Times has done it again, you guys: Just when we thought it was impossible to find any New Yorker under the age of 35 who hadn’t at least...

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The L Train Shutdown Is Here and It’s Not a Big Deal (Mostly)

Now that it’s not winter anymore, New Yorkers can’t complain about the weather, so they need to find something else to bitch about. Enter: The MTA. And look, I get it, traveling via subway can be an...

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NYC’S Oldest Bridge Re-Opens Above the Harlem River This July

The High Bridge in present day. photo: nycgovparks.org New York’s City’s High Bridge, while currently in a dormant and closed-off state since the mid-1970s, is set to reopen to the public this summer,...

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How Many Trees Are in New York City?

Photo: nycgovparks.com It’s easy to lose track of things like fresh air, wide open spaces and nature while traipsing around congested city streets, but New York actually has an abundance of trees and...

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The Deepest Dive: A New York City Pub Crawl to End All Pub Crawls

Since time immemorial, dive bars have occupied a very special place in the hearts of booze-inclined New Yorkers. We love dive bars because, much like the city itself, they’re unique, oozing with...

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Brooklyn Roasting’s Nitrogen Cold Brew Is Worth a Trip Across the East River

Photo by Marcy Franklin. New York’s brutal, humid summer is trouble for coffee lovers with weak stomachs, like me. Every work day starts the same: wake up, hurry through my morning routine, try to rush...

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Irrational Man, Trainwreck, and Just How Comfortable Judd Apatow and Amy...

Despite his persona on-screen and even in interviews, it seems unlikely that Woody Allen has been seized by the kind of existential paralysis—one character describes it as “despair” though it seems...

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