Posts filed under 'Brooklyn'

Too Darn Hot? Hop the ‘Sea’ Train

I was at the bottom of the ocean in Brooklyn when it dawned on me why I love New York City beaches even more than those pristine, remote shores seen in vacation brochures. (more…)


Add comment August 15, 2008

Coney Island Lager: A sideshow in a beer bottle

How about an ice-cold Coney Island Lager with your freak show?

Brooklyn-based Shmaltz Brewing Company has begun selling beers branded under a licensing agreement with the nonprofit organization that runs the Coney Island sideshow. (more…)


1 comment August 14, 2008

A Changing Palette on the Waterfront

Who was that bearded, straw-hatted painter doing impressionistic renderings of water scenes? No, it wasn’t Van Gogh painting landscapes in Arles; it was Francis Sills painting Red Hook’s faded waterfront. (more…)


Add comment August 13, 2008

Art attack! Waterfalls are killing DUMBO trees

The city’s hottest new public art project is killing trees at Brooklyn’s internationally beloved River Cafe. (more…)


Add comment August 12, 2008

Nothing finer than improving this diner

When the rail-car-style Cheyenne Diner relocates to Red Hook from Manhattan next month, it will have waterfront views, a beer garden and an upgraded menu from the standard greasy spoon fare, (more…)


Add comment August 12, 2008

Astroland owner left to sit and spin

Coney Island’s historic Astroland will close up for the season in just over a month — and when it does, it may be closing for good. (more…)


Add comment August 12, 2008

Success of aquatic plantings a key to the fate of Jamaica Bay’s ecosystem

A crew of scuba divers will plunge into the waters of Jamaica Bay in October, hoping to resurrect a long-lost marine treasure. (more…)


Add comment August 11, 2008

Brooklyn Neighbors Admit a Big Box Isn’t All Bad

The blue box opened, and so far, the sky hasn’t fallen.

When Ikea, the Swedish furniture giant, announced that it would open one of its trademark big-box stores on the Brooklyn waterfront in Red Hook, many in the area feared that throngs of shoppers would transform and scar a quiet neighborhood possessed of a battered industrial charm. (more…)


Add comment August 11, 2008

His Blue Period

NEW YORKERS may be prone to the flu in the winter, but in the summer the entire city comes down with a fever. (more…)


Add comment August 5, 2008

In Brooklyn, Sharing a River but Not Much Else

THREE distinct and distinctly walkable neighborhoods line the Brooklyn waterfront under the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges. (more…)


1 comment August 1, 2008

Have Camera, Will Trespass, on Brooklyn’s Waterfront

Nathan Kensinger generally does not ask for permission when he photographs the decaying remnants of Brooklyn’s industrial waterfront. (more…)


Add comment July 31, 2008

Microbes in filthy Gowanus Canal may hold breakthrough vs. AIDS, heart woes

The murky waters of Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal have caused the demise of a baby whale dubbed Sludgie, stunk up an entire neighborhood and even once caught on fire. (more…)


Add comment July 31, 2008

NEW B’KLYN PARK A HIT

A tiny taste of one of the state’s most highly contested projects — Brooklyn Bridge Park — has quietly become one of New York City’s biggest summer attractions. (more…)


Add comment July 28, 2008

Coney Island’s Latest Roller Coaster Ride

In a city with its share of eccentrics, Coney Island’s annual Mermaid Parade is like an early-summer extravaganza: (more…)


Add comment July 28, 2008

The World Beyond the Wonder Wheel

IN 2004, a documentary photographer named Steve Hoffman began visiting Coney Island, (more…)


Add comment July 27, 2008

Evan Schlossberg wins his second Coney Island sand castle contest

Sand sculptor Evan Schlossberg tidies up his winning Aztec snake on Saturday on the beach at Coney Island. (more…)


Add comment July 27, 2008

Coney does Disney?

The state of Coney Island is not strong, one of its most vocal boosters said this week. (more…)


Add comment July 24, 2008

With cooperation, Coney Island can be a year-round playground

Coney Island is referred to as “America’s Playground,” and if you go there on a summer afternoon, that name fits. But during the winter, when temperatures drop and the sun sets early, it doesn’t look the same. (more…)


Add comment July 22, 2008

Keeping City Beaches Safe and Clean

Music throbs from the cement steps as gawkers line railings and eye young women in bikinis at the Bronx’s Orchard Beach. (more…)


Add comment July 21, 2008

Coney Island shutdown

Coney Islanders report that rides are already being packed up for the summer, even though they were meant to run until Labor Day. (more…)


2 comments July 21, 2008

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