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Brooklyn Grange’s newest and largest rooftop farm points to a greener New York

A worker drags a plow over freshly harvested earth. On this muggy August day, it looks laborious. This isn’t a small farmstead in some bucolic locale; it’s a rooftop in Sunset Park. The lack of mechanization is one of... Read More
8 new ice creams for the dog days of summer (and for dogs in general)

Summer in Brooklyn basically means arguing the merits of Odd Fellows and Ample Hills ice cream. Which has the most creative flavors? Which has the creamiest taste? Which has the best cone? For the record, it’s an official tie.... Read More
A Novel Approach to the summer reading list

The Center for Fiction in Fort Greene provides all the things you would expect from an institution devoted to literary fiction: readings, a bookstore, classes and workshops, to name a few. Its most surprising offering, though, is the therapeutic... Read More
The best podcasts for summer listening

As the podcast boom continues, the number of shows and the variety of topics and the range of genres continues to grow—and grow and grow. The result is an ever-expanding Whitman’s Sampler of audio stories, where most pieces are... Read More
Volunteer at a soup kitchen, it’s more than just ‘giving back’

One in five residents in Brooklyn is food insecure, meaning they lack reliable access to affordable, nutritious meals. That is 20% of the population of your neighbors. Isn’t that insane? Isn’t that just insane? These are our neighbors, until... Read More