This urban garden is doing more than just growing vegetables and herbs. Some local Brooklyn folks have banded together to collect street leaves, diverting them from landfills and converting them to “good fertile soil.” They turned an empty lot, destined for new condos, into a community garden, for veggies and flowers, even combating Guiliani to […]
We had a fantastic meal at The Farm on Adderley, located in Ditmas Park. In the spirit of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, this cozy restaurant believes in sustainable eating, local produce and transparency in their produce sources, offering a list of the purveyors for all of their foods.
The meal consisted of a prix-fixe menu: five courses, […]
Brooklyn is expansive, surprising, charming and even ugly. You can see that it was once its own city, vast and complex. There are areas in the borough that are like highway wastelands, with used car outlets, Wendy’s, Dunkin’ Donuts and gas stations along long strips of road. You could be anywhere, anywhere sad and tired. […]
A chilly night didn’t keep Virginia Vizthum’s friends and fans away from her book release party. The cozy bookshop Unnameable Books was the site for this reading from “I Love You, Let’s Meet.”
Virginia Vizthum, a Brooklyn writer, is best known for her incisive column on Salon.com. One day, both out of professional curiosity and perhaps […]
Want to really get to know New York City? Want to try the best of the best? Trek on out to Midwood, Brooklyn, and dive into this tiny pizzeria. It’s always packed, the line is hard to find, because everyone is bunched up together near the front counter, and the owner and his son take […]
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