Think of Roosevelt Island today and you may think of the waterfront promenade, or the bright red car of the aerial tramway connecting the island
A Brooklyn historian’s love for his hometown was laid bare Tuesday evening at a launch party for his latest book, “How Bay Ridge Became Bay
Keeping up on the trendiest titles is a fun way to read, but rounding out your literary diet with the so-called Great Works of Fiction
Lauren from Brooklyn Heights asks: What writers lived in Brooklyn Heights? Great literary writing started in Brooklyn Heights, Lauren, but it has spread over the
Books for many of us are an escape. Here’s one that explores the nature of escape itself — why we need it in the first
Since rock ‘n’ roll took America’s radio waves and bandstands by storm over sixty years ago, the genre has spawned more than 200 sub-genres. But
Twelve years before Jack Johnson became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champ and fifty years before Jackie Robinson broke the MLB’s color barrier,
From factory farms, to pesticides, to chemical-leeching packaging, the way we eat has changed dramatically since the industrial revolution — and not entirely for the
From her early childhood in 1980s Germany, there were dark corners to illustrator Nora Krug’s family history that she knew not to probe, and one
We all have our irrational fears, tics and anxieties. We don’t all feel trapped in a mental prison, destined to a life spent looping through
Nationwide, religious headlines focus on a dwindling and ever-more elderly church-going population. Many Christian communities attribute the shift to a spike in agnosticism, or the
Growing up in the Red Hook projects, writer and middle school teacher Torrey Maldonado hated “boring books that seemed to dismiss him and where he
How would you like to wander around Jazz Age New York, smoking in a trench coat and rubbing elbows with bootleggers, Avant Garde poets and
If you’d like to read a somewhat autobiographical work of fiction that also dives into the social and political ills of 1970s Brooklyn, you can’t
If you’d like to sit in the presence of an award-winning author and knight who’s also the subject of an Islamic fatwa calling for his
There are a few iconic Brooklyn books that manage to capture something unique to the era they were written, as well as the aspects of
Today the Gowanus Canal is a famously toxic waterbody, notorious for its contamination and for its possible role in the death of Sludgie the Whale,
Kids now live in a world with endless devices competing for their eyeballs, with each app and game expertly engineered to capture their shorter and
When writer R.D. Rosen became curious about his childhood neighbor Sid Luckman, a Hall of Fame Quarterback for the Chicago Bears, he was hoping to
At Carrie Goldberg’s victims’ rights law firm in Brooklyn, there are four types of offenders she confronts again and again: assholes, psychos, pervs and trolls.