Four tall ships, four foreign navy vessels and two U.S. Coast Guard cutters will be open for public visits at the Red Hook Marine Terminal in Brooklyn, Memorial Day weekend, … Read more

How’d you like the Brooklyn Bridge generously sprawled across your back? The third-annual Brooklyn Bridge Birthday celebration will do the honors for you on Sunday May 27, 1-7 p.m., at … Read more

A campy shuffleboard club inspired by Florida’s senior scene is making its hipster debut in Gowanus. Golden Girls unite! Owners of The Royal Palms, a grocery-store sized club featuring regulation-size … Read more

And we thought the bedbug epidemic had bitten the dust. But according to a notice sent to parents of The Carroll School Tuesday, the pesky little critters are still gnawing … Read more

New York City’s Bike Share Program has announced its citywide locations that include Brooklyn’s portion of 600 city bike share stations. If you’re hoping for a quick ride on the … Read more

The Brooklyn Lit Crawl beer-and-book festival, which stumbles through 13 Cobble Hill, Carroll Garden and Brooklyn Heights venues on Saturday May 19, 6-8 p.m., will comprise cocktails, trivia contests, book … Read more

SUNY Downstate Medical Center, which took control of Long Island College Hospital last June, faces an operating deficit and will have to eliminate jobs and close or combine some operations. … Read more

This weekend, the Bayou n’ Brooklyn Music Festival will fill the air with the sounds of Cajun fiddles and Zydeco rub-boards at the Jalopy Music Theatre at 315 Columbia Street … Read more

A new 85-unit luxury rental development is coming to Brooklyn’s Boerum Hill, one block from the border of Park Slope. Partners the Naftali Group and AEW Capital Management recently closed … Read more

Saturday May 12 is the opening date for New York-based, Parisian-born artist & sculptor Prune Nourry’s “Holy River” exhibit at Cobble Hill’s Invisible Dog Gallery. The launch takes place 6-10 … Read more

Imagine the childhood joy of a 7-Eleven slushie with the grown-up bliss of a little compulsory booze amid the concoction. A new restaurant on the Columbia Street waterfront, Pok Pok, … Read more

Just as another season of alfresco dining and drinking in the neighborhood is getting underway, a new sidewalk café opened for business yesterday at the NU Hotel Brooklyn. Encompassing 416 … Read more

A petting zoo, rides, merry-go-round, dancing and plenty of eats will highlight the 2012 Families First Brooklyn Spring Carnival in Cobble Hill, Saturday, May 12, from 10 a.m. to 3 … Read more

The annual Court Street “Brooklyn” Festival takes place this Sunday, May 6, in Carroll Gardens, from Union Street to 9th Street, comprising about 200 vendors. The event includes kiddie rides, … Read more

The Brooklyn Heights Montessori School—the single such accredited preschool-8th grade facility in NYC—is expanding its facilities and programs for students. The school has purchased a property adjacent to its Cobble … Read more