The Kings Theatre in Ditmas Park was recently renovated over a multi-year, $90 million effort, and it is not going unnoticed. Last year, the theater won a New York State Preservation Award,…
Built in 1918, the Brooklyn Army Terminal (formerly known as the US Army Military Ocean Terminal) was the largest U.S. military supply base through World War II. It was used as an active…
The Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum takes museum goers back to a period of 1980’s Neo-Expressionism. Showcasing unreleased content from eight notebooks…
This past wednesday, as part of an Earth Day awareness campaign, swimmer and environmentalist Christopher Swain swam across the nearly two-mile-long, heavily polluted Gowanus Canal. Swain…
Last week, our Ravey Redd introduced you to the new Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. Thanks to this great preview of the exhibition from Artnet, we can…
American photographer Brett Weston started snapping photos as a teenager in 1925, excelling quickly and grabbing international acclaim by his early 20's, being featured in solo galleries in…
American photographer Danny Lyon was born in Brooklyn in 1942. When he was 21 he published his first photographs, and never looked back. Over the next 50 years, Lyon would capture many…
Local street artist JerkFace recently created this throwback mural of the 90's classic cartoon Ren and Stimpy. The large mural is located in Williamsburg, outside of Grandma Rose's Pizza on…
Bushwick Pizza Party is a 1980's throwback pizza joint on Irving Avenue between Bleecker and Menahan in Brooklyn. The serve up some delicious pizza in an over-the-top decor decked out with…
The Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation, or BMT, ran all the below-ground subway and above-ground trolly lines in Brooklyn and parts of Manhattan up until 1940, when the City purchased…
