Brooklyn

The Knickerbocker Field Club, a Hidden Tennis Club in Brooklyn

The Knickerbocker Field Club is a true hidden gem, and one of our favorite locations in our book Secret Brooklyn.

Pratt Institute’s Steam Engine Power Plant, the Oldest in the U.S.

In the middle of Clinton Hill, Brooklyn is the 25-acre Pratt Institute campus, a gorgeous collection of landmarked buildings amidst

Skip and Jump on Reflect, A New Light Installation in Domino Park

There will be plenty to hop, skip and jump about with Reflect, a new socially distanced art installation at Domino

10 New Public Art Installations in NYC, March 2021

What Signs Say: The Aesthetics of Gentrification in Brooklyn

In their book What the Signs Say: Language, Gentrification, and Place-Making in Brooklyn, sociolinguist Shonna Trinch and anthropologist Edward Snajdr

NYC’s Two Landmarked Trees: Weeping Beech & Magnolia Grandiflora

While New York City’s landmarks are usually thought of as individual buildings or historic districts (and the occasional park)

Explore Carole King’s NYC on the 50th Anniversary of Tapestry

Carole King’s hit album Tapestry appeared on record store shelves fifty years ago this week! The transformative 1971 album

12 New Public Art Installations in NYC February 2021

We might be in the midst of a huge snowstorm, but February is always a great month for new public

Diorama Truck by Artist Swoon Arrives at Brooklyn Bridge Park

At a time when the opportunity to see live performance is at a minimum, it is exciting to learn of

The Brooklyn Home of Doug Emhoff, Husband of VP Kamala Harris

Doug Emhoff is the husband of United States Vice President Kamala Harris with an official title as “The Second Gentleman.

The Keith Haring Mural Inside Brooklyn’s Woodhull Hospital

Hospitals may not be the first places that come to mind when you think of where to see works of

A Look Inside the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch in Brooklyn

Standing proudly at Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza, the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch acts as both a monumental entrance