The Best Halloween Decorations In NYC You’ve Shared With Us This Spooky Szn Happy Halloween, NYC! With spooky season coming to a close, it’s time to take a look at how the city has shown its spirit all month long…and let the All Hallows’ Eve spirit live on through these photos. Sure, there were likely some stragglers that put up a ghost or two in these last few days, but plenty of us have truly been feeling the ghoulish spirits for…
Category: Brooklyn
Neighborhood Guide to North Brooklyn’s Iconic Hipster ‘Hoods
The North Brooklyn neighborhoods of Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and Bushwick have a similar vibe and lifestyle. A long standing Hassidic and Dominican neighborhood, Williamsburg’s transformation to arts enclave come hipster HQ began in the late 1980’s/early 1990’s. When artists were priced out of Manhattan’s downtown villages, they sought new digs, preferably with live/work art spaces and easy access to the galleries, theaters, and vibrant creative community they’d left behind. Enter north Brooklyn. The neighborhood of Williamsburg had everything the artists were…
Neighborhood Guide to Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights
When New Yorkers venture out of Manhattan and into residential Brooklyn, they typically stop heading south at Park Slope. Long time Bay Ridge residents rejoice, because they like the keep the neighborhood to themselves. Influxes of transplanted north Brooklynites and Manhattanites could mean increases in rent, property taxes, and crowds, but that doesn’t mean that Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights aren’t great places to live. Quite the opposite, in fact. Green Space Bay Ridge, on the western coast of south…