Congratulations to Peter McCarthy who captured true hideousness at 126 3rd Street in Gowanus. Peter is the winner of our Brokelyn Ugly Building Contest, where we asked for readers’ snapshots of the most horrendous edifices they could bear to photograph around Brooklyn. These are all the architectural uglies that made it [...]
Our ugly building photo contest!
Photo by Alan Dickson
As we enter a new decade it’s important to look back on the past one and remember the good the bad and the ugly, and boy was there some ugly in Brooklyn. We’re talking, of course, about the detritus of the real-estate boom: the half-completed glass towers, the ham-handed “luxury” details, [...]
Sunday: Learn to cook an 18th-century Thanksgiving
The First Thanksgiving
Ever wonder what the pilgrims and Indians actually ate at that fabled first Thanksgiving? Queens-based historic gastronomist and blogger Sarah Lohman can probably tell you. Lohman’s an old-timey-food-re-enactor who takes recipes from the past and recreates them to “95 percent authenticity.” She mostly does American food from the 18th and 19th centuries (see the
Village Voice loves Brooklyn bars, creepy Green-Wood strolls
Black Mountain Winehouse, voted "Best Bar to Spirit Yourself Away to the Adirondacks"
If there’s one thing the proclamations of New York’s “best of” lists are always good for, it’s sparking debate. But when a list has categories like “Best ’90s Musical Hero Hiding Out Scruffily in Brooklyn” (Blake Schwarzenbach), who can argue? That distinction and [...]
