Sections
Sign up for daily news e-mails!
Popular stories
Scouring the Web for all things Brooklyn
Music to time travel to
Music: Some songs are perfect for the car stereo — but this Brooklyn band performs music meant to be blasted in a time machine. Comment
Lit flicks: Comic readings of movie novelizations
Park Slope: They might be movie classics — but literary masterpieces they ain’t. Comment
Original gentrifiers: Eat and drink like our Dutch forefathers at city’s oldest house
The Dutch were into fresh bread, local beer and farm-raised pork belly before it was cool. Comments (26)
Same clean results, now organic: Soap-maker helps you craft an all-natural bar
Greenwood Heights: Make your own soap from scratch like the early pioneers did — plain, unadulterated, and not loaded with phony fragrances. Comment
American hotel
Books: A photographer and writer team — the latter a former Brooklyn Paper arts editor and Steely Dan correspondent — have produced a book of photo essays on the lives of newly arrived immigrants fleeing from famine, war, and persecution. Comments (1)
Enter the matrix: Hackers get together for marathon session in Bushwick
Art: You’ve touched a computer, you’ve talked to a computer, but have you fed one food? Comments (1)
