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Where Is the Next Brooklyn?

Hamilton Nolan · 04/10/14 08:55AM

There once was a time when people in New York City lived in Brooklyn because it was significantly cheaper than Manhattan. Now people move to Brooklyn because of its Urban Outfitters concept store. Where will all the Brooklynites go now?

Spike Lee Thinks A.O. Scott Doesn't Understand Brooklyn

Hazel Cills · 03/31/14 06:30PM

On Sunday, New York Times film critic A.O. Scott wrote a column on Brooklyn and its on-screen portrayal in recent years, from Girls to Saturday Night Fever. With a title like "Whose Brooklyn Is It, Anyway?" it was bound to irk at least a few people, but Scott made sure to piss off the one Brooklynite you don't want to piss off: Spike Lee.

Judge Pans Killer's Performance As Lawyer

Justin Charity · 03/29/14 11:14AM

Salvatore Perrone, a 65-year-old garment salesman from Staten Island, stands accused of executing three Brooklyn shopkeepers in 2012. In a trial tentatively scheduled for the fall, the defendant will represent himself. Perrone launches his defense just a month after medical experts declared him mentally fit for prosecution, barely, despite his repeated outbursts to declare that he murdered on behalf of a "Palestinian section of the CIA."

A Mystical Spree of Decapitations In Brooklyn

Justin Charity · 03/06/14 10:12PM

Obama's America. A man can't even walk his Boston Terrier through Prospect Park without tripping over a severed goat head. And then a few afternoons later, a young mother strolls with her two-year-old son through a neighboring park, only to shriek and stumble upon two ceremoniously decapitated rooster skulls, sacrificed on a clay plate.

Hamilton Nolan · 02/26/14 11:41AM

Two thousand JPMorgan employees will soon be moving into Brooklyn. Brooklyn just, uh, keeps getting cooler.

This Is the Williamsburg of Your City: A Map of Hip America

Max Read · 01/29/14 11:30AM

What is your city's Williamsburg? What's its hippest—or formerly hippest—or sometimes just youngest—neighborhood, the one with the art galleries and the boutiques and the lines for brunch? (And what, for that matter, is its Bushwick, or "Next Williamsburg"?) If you don't know off the top of your head, don't worry. We do, thanks to the collective knowledge of Gawker readers.

Taylor Berman · 10/25/13 08:41AM

President Obama's visit to a Brooklyn high school won't shut down all of Prospect Park, after all. “We apologize for the inconvenience and any confusion associated with earlier messages,” reads a statement on the park's website.