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Did you know that the Brooklyn-based Food Coop has its own official newsletter, The Linewaiters Gazette? It's been around since way back in 1973, and it is its own source of fascinating information. In the latest issue, The New York Times' A.O. Scott dissects the Coop.
Don't pretend you're terribly surprised. Kings County (Brooklyn's home) is the county with the most marijuana possession arrests in the state with the most marijuana arrests, according to the ACLU. But what might surprise you is that, if you're black, you're almost ten times more likely to be busted in Brooklyn than if you're white.
One aspect of Brooklyn's Barclays Center that hasn't gotten much media attention until now is, well, the way it smells. How does it smell?
Here's a warning: That food festival you're hell-bent on attending might be terrible. It might, on the other hand, be an utterly delicious frolic. All this really depends on you.
So today came chatter about how British superstar novelist Martin Amis is apparently growing tired of Brooklyn. But Brooklyn is a lot bigger than you seem to realize, and it is for damn sure a lot more interesting.
The late Beastie Boy Adam Yauch (a.k.a MCA) has received the "ultimate honor for a kid from New York City" with a Brooklyn Heights park named after him as of Friday afternoon.
Last night New York's support for Boston was evident on a side of a building. Words of support and love for the usually rival city were projected out of a van onto the side of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. So how did those projections come to be?
A long, long, long time ago (like, last year) I wrote an obituary for the word artisanal. It seemed high time to declare it dead and get on with our lives. And yet, it has become clear in the months that have followed that artisanal is not dead. Artisanal may, instead, be undead.
It's been a while since we had a good, old-fashioned, Brooklyn-hippie-yuppie mocking grocery shopping story, but here we go again, thanks to the New York Daily News, taking all the Park Slope Food Coop tropes we've ever known and making them larger than life.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Julio Acevedo, the suspect wanted for the Brooklyn hit-and-run accident that killed a young Jewish couple and — less than 24 hours later — the baby born after the crash has turned himself into police, more than 80 miles from the crash site.
Julio Acevedo may be a criminal with a long rap sheet and an indirect connection to a very famous rapper. He may even have returned to the scene of the crash the led to the death of a young Jewish couple — and, later, their just-born baby.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Somehow, a dolphin has ended up trapped in Brooklyn's heavily polluted Gowanus Canal. The world watches with bated breath (and cruel Twitter jokes) while authorities attempt to rescue it — if the dolphin can't wiggle its way out first.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
The newly crowned Miss America loves New York and lives in Brooklyn. But does that mean Brooklyn is in love with its new Miss America?
Under the shadow of playoff football, Miss America was crowned somewhere on your television late last night. The lucky winner just so happens to be from the hottest city in the world right now: Brooklyn, New York.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Two alleged spottings on opposite coasts this week captured the attention of semi-local news sources and now people are actually talking about them.
A Park Slope dive bar is threatening to secede from the neighborhood that, it feels, fails to appreciate its dive-y charm. What would we do, though, if all of the dive bars left us? The world would be bleak, indeed.
Remember "Très Brooklyn"? All that and those who dine upon it, it seems, may have been left in a lurch—like the rest of us—by Sandy.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
After 55 years without a professional sports franchise, the borough of Brooklyn just landed two in one month, as the NHL's New York Islanders have decided to move into the brand new Barclays Center, the current home of the former New Jersey Nets.
Ice cream truck wars in the summer; urban farming fisticuffs in the fall—there's neighborhood-based trouble for every month in the Big Apple. The beef of the season in Park Slope is chicken.
Today in books and publishing: Veteran Knopf editor Ashbel Green dies; meet the movers in Brooklyn's book scene; how Norwegian publishing works.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Earlier this month, an issue of Chicago Reader's Mike Sula proclaimed that the meat of the climbing, scurrying, nut-eating mammals that urbanites encounter daily was the "Chicken of the Trees." Well, New York City has squirrels, too.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
In a stunning about-face, the New York Times has turned the farm-to-tables on "Très Brooklyn!" and confronted USA Today for, essentially, co-opting their term, and, for that matter, their trend piece M.O.
Oui, "Très Brooklyn!" est de retour. This horrible, supposed culinary superlative first introduced by The New York Times has reared its questionable but perfectly pomaded and fedora-topped head again, this time in USA Today, which somehow makes it worse. This is not your grandparents' Brooklyn!
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
The good thing about Wednesday's news that Levi Aron would plead guilty to last summer's horrific murder of an 8-year-old Brooklyn boy is that the boy's family and the public don't have to relive the whole horrific ordeal again in a trial.
What happens to Manhattan when Brooklyn starts getting all the attention? Gather close, children, and listen to a story.
It's been a while since we've gotten any good Coop gossip, but as luck would have it, the Coop newspaper, The Linewaiters Gazette, is out with some new news and ancient folklore about the place for groceries that has us all in its thrall.
Spike Lee shook Mitt Romney's hand, favors Bloomberg's soda ban, thinks we will gentrify The Atlantic Ocean, and other highlights from his New York Magazine interview with Will Leitch.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Even non-demographers won't find it terribly shocking that four of the nation's 25 zip codes with the biggest white influx over the past decade are in Brooklyn, New York, the most of any single state, let alone a city.
The phrase of the week was "très Brooklyn," from a piece by Julia Moskin in The New York Times. Except there is no "très Brooklyn," we were informed by a couple Parisians who should know. Never was, hopefully never will be.
Julia Moskin's New York Times trend piece on how artisanal food trucks are all the rage in Paris not only offends our dearly departed Artisanal, but serves to inflict a mortal wound upon Brooklyn, not to mention the entire country of France.
Now that there's a company out there willing to make you Wikipedia famous, for a price, we get an idea of how much an entry in the Internet's de-facto library costs. Turns out it's $300.
There's a final gentrification push in the land of Williamsburg, according to The New York Post, that may make the starving artist extinct, or possibly just make the starving artist move to Bushwick.
The mistakes in Girls are only notable because the show gets so much about the city right, at least the version of the city known to a very particular subset of young New Yorkers.
Is it really that easy to get booted from the Park Slope Food Coop?
It's that time of year: The seasonal shots have been fired; dormant for the winter, it's now time for the war against the ice cream man again.
After a dramatic lead-up that included passionate campaigns and weeks of canvassing on both sides from Coop members and local politicians, the members of the Park Slope Food Coop voted down the opportunity to vote on whether or not Israeli products should be banned from the store.
The Park Slope Food Coop is gearing up for a meeting tonight that may be the most talked-about Park Slope Food Coop meeting in history. But do you know what is at stake? The topic is boycotting products from Israel, but there is more: vegan marshmallows! shift credits! parliamentary procedure! We put together a preview.
The Park Slope Food Coop is facing what may be the most troubling problem in their 39-year history: apathy.
It is nice to know, in days when quitting a job might land you your own New York Times Op Ed, that some people take pride in their work. A small coffeeshop in Brooklyn needs a barista, aka, "a fringe type, yet comfortable, like the middle of a Venn diagram."
One of the most amusing (and enlightening) reads of the day may be senior Reuters Opinion editor Chadwick Matlin's live tweets of Tuesday night's monthly members meeting of the Park Slope Food Co-op.
It seems New Yorkers can't get comfortable in one neighborhood without being told that a new neighborhood is the neighborhood to be in. Or not to be in, as the case may be.
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