The Insider is Brownstoner’s weekly interior design and renovation column. It’s written by Cara Greenberg, also a contributing editor at the newly launched New York Cottages & Gardens, from which this post is adapted. Find it here every Thursday at 11:... »
No surprise to those of us in the know, but hipster pub The L Magazine notes that Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill are “the most walkable neighborhoods in Brooklyn,” according to a study by Walk Score published on website Slate. The webbie bases its “w... »
A few quick notes on BusTime: The MTA’s in-house real-time bus tracking system is making its debut in bits and spurts. With Staten Island and the B63 on board and the Bronx on tap for later this year, Transit has unveiled the service on a few other rou... »
A Look at Brooklyn, then and now. As greater New York City grew, it soon became apparent that highways were needed to move goods and people through an expanding city; roads that would allow for large numbers of cars and trucks, and would bypass busy re... »
Below is a list of upcoming nature trips within NYC's five boroughs for the weekend of March 10, 2012 - March 11, 2012: Audubon Center in Prospect Park (Brooklyn) Saturday, March 10, 2012 Introduction to Birdwatching Every Saturday, 12 – 1:30 p.m. Expl... »
When the Brooklyn Detention Complex reopened last week, articles sprung up in many New York publications quoting residents expressing their fears of having men who broke the law housed so close to their doorstep. However, [...] »
I recently spent my Saturday in jail with a few hundred of my neighbors. The jail in question was the Brooklyn Detention Complex, formerly the Brooklyn House of Detention, or “House of D,” a ten-story gray hulk that sits on … »
The MTA announced that the B61 will soon be equipped with BusTime — a system that provides real-time bus arrival and location information. In December, Councilman Brad Lander, Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez and Councilwoman Sara González released a stud... »
