Brooklyn

A week or so ago, legendary BBC broadcaster David “Ram Jam” Rodigan stepped to the front of the stage at Nostrand Avenue’s Crown Hill Theatre and mesmerized an audience of devoted reggae fans by recounting the day in 1980 when he bustled up the stairs at Island records’ London offices and almost ran into: “Robert. […]

Brooklyn is home to at least one luxury high-rise for DINKs and DINKs alone, and another that’s mostly vacant. N0w, a tower at 18 Sixth Avenue, in Prospect Heights, is luring prospective tenants with a promise that’s apparently heretofore unheard of: Visa gift cards to help cover the cost of in-building social events. As Curbed

If you’ve followed these pages over the years, you already know Record Store Day is every damn day, and Brooklyn’s selection of record shops is so extensive it is effectively unmatched. But some of those excavation sites require a bit more digging than others to unearth, which is a loving labor, honestly, not entirely unlike

When the Roc Nation School launched at Long Island University’s Downtown Brooklyn campus in 2021, as many as 50 students from its inaugural class were awarded what they believed were “debt-free” scholarships by JAY-Z‘s behemoth entertainment company. Meaning: no loans or grants would be required for the completion of their degree. However, at least a

You don’t have to look very hard to find onigiri in Japan. The delicious rice balls—stuffed with a variety of fillings from tuna to salmon and pickled plum—are sold in convenience stores, on trains, and at izakayas. They’re one of the most popular and affordable snacks in the country. In fact, the Japanese have enjoyed

At 4 p.m. this afternoon, President Trump is expected to gather the press in the White House’s Rose Garden to formally unveil his tariffs plan on what he’s dubbed, for some reason, “Liberation Day.” Looming over the economy for months—sending stock portfolios and the financial solvency of families across the country into a tailspin with

“Death to Streamers! Physical Media Forever!” reads the banner of a website for Night Owl Video, a new video store coming to Williamsburg in a few weeks that is very clearly ready to square up with the streaming giants for your eyes and dollars. According to Gothamist, the shop is slated to open on April 11

The fun, fiercely diverse, and consistently vital weekly Smorgasburg food market sets up shop for its 15th (!) season this weekend, running on Saturdays at Marsha P. Johnson State Park on the Williamsburg waterfront, and on Sundays at Breeze Hill in Prospect Park. There are some 70 different vendors this year, slinging everything from shawarma

A Mary J. Blige concert in Brooklyn changed the trajectory of Sandrine Charles‘s life. “The way I looked at my career [at the time]—you know, being Caribbean—the options are doctor, lawyer or engineer,” she says. The owner of Sandrine Charles Consulting, a New York-based communications agency, and founder of the Black In Fashion Council, was

Brooklyn’s basketball footprint is about to grow. The 2024 WNBA champion New York Liberty will soon be training in a state-of-the-art 75,000-square-foot facility in Greenpoint, BSE Global, the owner of the team (and, full disclosure, BKMAG), announced today. Image via New York Liberty The building, which will sit along Newtown Creek, is projected to open