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Scenes from Coney Island’s frigid (but fun) 2024 opening day
It may not have felt like spring out there on the historic Coney Island boardwalk on Sunday — it was colder out than both of the last two New Year’s Day Polar Bear plunges — but the amusement parks’s...
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New in Bushwick, Marie’s is an Italian spot with an NYC heart
Born and raised on the Lower East Side in the 1970s and ’80s — he was literally born in a yellow cab heading uptown somewhere on First Avenue — the Dominican chef has been working in kitchens since he...
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Quick Bites: Filipino brunch, Argentine pizza and sausages galore on Sackett...
Bed-Stuy’s revamped Swell Dive launches weekend Filipino brunch Tortang talong (eggplant omelette) bowl, $14; longanisa and egg sandwich, $10 (Photo by Scott Lynch) It was a blow to the locals when...
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Scenes from Sunday’s Easter parade on Fifth Avenue
It’s a tradition stretching back to New York City’s Gilded Age, to stroll down Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue in one’s most colorful, most extravagant bonnet on Easter Sunday. Of course, much has changed...
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A sneak peek at the best new vendors coming to Smorgasburg this year
This weekend, April 5 and 6, Brooklyn’s now-venerable (but still sprightly and fun) weekly food market Smorgasburg launches its 14th season, setting up shop in Marsha P. Johnson Park on the...
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Thousands gathered, gawked and cheered at Green-Wood Cemetery for the eclipse
When was the last time you clapped for the moon? More than 7,000 people streamed through the various gates of Green-Wood Cemetery to take in a once-in-a-generation solar eclipse on Monday afternoon, an...
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Bar Louise is a cocktail bar and date night restaurant for grown-ups
Park Slope’s Pasta Louise, which Allison Arevelo opened in July 2020 after selling noodles from her stoop during those earliest pandemic times, has been a big hit in this famously family-friendly part...
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Quick Bites: Persian pastries, Swedish candy, and a Lebanese-Mexican spot on...
Get superb pastries at Nasim Alikhani’s new Sofreh Cafe on Flatbush Bereshtook, $3; a trio of toots, $5, and a latifeh, $6 (Photo by Scott Lynch) Nasim Alikhani needs no introduction in this part of...
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Roberta’s has opened its first-ever slice shop
From its scrappy beginnings some 16 years ago, when it first opened in what was then a grim industrial patch of Bushwick near the Morgan L train stop, Roberta’s has grown into an empire. There are...
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Creative cocktails and a smashed meatball parm star at Bar Madonna in...
Bar Madonna, a viby new cocktail spot and restaurant that opened a couple of weeks ago in Williamsburg, took some twists and turns on its way to transforming the old Taqueria Diana Cantina space on...
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Scenes from The Great Trebulation, Brooklyn’s best and only catapult competition
More than a hundred people gathered on a scrubby field in Bushwick’s Green Central Knoll on Sunday for the third annual Great Trebulation, a catapult competition in which a record 19 teams hauled their...
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Brooklyn’s best new restaurant just opened in Bed-Stuy
Gary Fishkop didn’t really have a plan when he signed the lease for this corner spot on Halsey Street and Throop Avenue in January of 2023. All he knew was: 1) he loved his adopted neighborhood of...
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The team behind Place des Fêtes and Oxalis opens Laurel Bakery on Columbia...
Down by the Brooklyn waterfront on Columbia Street, on a block that hasn’t seen a lot of action since the legendary Pok Pok closed back in 2018, a crowd started gathering before 8 a.m. a couple of...
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The Brooklyn Night Market kicked off its third season with rain and revelry...
Thousands of hungry revelers hit up Industry City on Monday for the season opener of the Brooklyn Night Market, a monthly food (and more!) festival that takes over an entire block with more than 30...
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Quick Bites: Vegan delights at BK Museum, pastries in Greenpoint, and Oh Boy...
Aunts et Uncles Summer House at Brooklyn Museum Vegan lobster roll, $16; vegan rice bowl with grilled king oyster mushrooms, $18 (Photo by Scott Lynch) It’s been a while since I’ve had anything like a...
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The Met Gala is elitist and obnoxious. Give it up for Brooklyn’s People’s...
The extremely rich-people-only Met Gala red carpet is going to dominate culture news and our social media feeds tonight, but last night in Brooklyn, at the Central Public Library in Grand Army Plaza,...
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Park Slope’s Sawa is a lovely Lebanese feast for the senses
Samaya Boueri Ziade has lived in Park Slope for 15 years now. It’s where she and her husband are raising their two children. It’s a community that, as she tells Brooklyn Magazine, “is really my home. I...
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Smith Street gets some magnificent mole at Ruta Oaxaca
The two pairs of brothers behind Ruta Oaxaca met almost 20 years ago, when they were all working in the trenches at various restaurants: bussing tables, cooking on the line, washing dishes. Carlos and...
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Quick Bites: Amazing aguachilies, a restorative congee brunch, sandwiches at...
The city’s best aguachile is coming to Greenpoint It was a year ago that Alonzo Guzman and Amy Hernadez opened Mistica on the northern edges of Greenpoint’s Franklin Avenue, surprising everyone by...
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Oxalis is reborn as Cafe Mado — and it’s amazing
The last night of service for the first iteration of Oxalis — Nico Russell, Steve Wong, and Piper Kristensen’s Michelin-starred gem on Washington Avenue — was New Year’s Eve, 2023. I wasn’t there, but...
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