Obama Visit to Brooklyn Will Shut Down Prospect Park
Obama in Central Park. Close enough. President Obama will visit a high school in Crown Heights on Friday, which for some reason means that all 585 acres of Prospect Park will be closed, Politicker...
View ArticleSome of Prospect Park Will Be Open on Friday After All
Yesterday, Prospect Park said all of its 585 acres would be off-limits to visitors on Friday afternoon in conjunction with President Obama’s visit to a high school two miles away in Crown Heights in...
View ArticleThe Brooklyn Mayor: What de Blasio’s Election Means For Us
Illustration by Alex Konsevick NO. 2 The Brooklyn Mayor What de Blasio’s Election Means For Us This past election marked the first time in recent memory, maybe ever, that New Yorkers had to choose...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg Is Worried About the NSA, Too
You wouldn’t peg Mark Zuckerberg, who once said “privacy is dead,” to be a spokesman for the safeguarding of information from omniscient monocular entities. But the NSA has a way of uniting unlikely...
View ArticleLet’s Explain Hotels To The New York Post
Maybe you’ve heard: Hillary Clinton might run for president. Which means that we are now in the stages of every publication scouring her words, receipts, and coffee grounds for signs of an official...
View ArticleYou Can Fly Direct To Cuba From JFK Starting In March
For more than 50 years, getting to Cuba as an American has been difficult. You could do it, but it might require either subterfuge or a convoluted route through a different country, and the State...
View ArticleMarc Maron Talks Obama, Anger Issues, and Gay Cereal Milk at BAM
Marc Maron at BAMphoto by Richard Termine During his two hour-long stand-up routine at BAM last Friday, comedian Marc Maron made it close to impossible for any journalists in the audience to sit down...
View ArticleChance the Rapper Is All Over Your TV; Check Him Out Now On Good Morning America
Chance the Rapper has been on a massive avalanche of success ever since releasing his second mixtape, Acid Rap, in 2013, before putting out Surf with friend/collaborator Donnie Trumpet a year ago,...
View ArticleIt Was A Great Election Day, Until It Wasn’t—But, Hope is Alive
Yesterday morning, after waking my roommate up, the first thing I did was blast music. I walked out of my room, plugged my phone into a set of big loud speakers, and started blasting the festive music:...
View ArticleBrooklyn 100 Influencer: Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker
A lot changed in 2016. Trump was elected; Vinson Cunningham became a staff writer at the New Yorker. But will his approach to writing change? “I hope it doesn’t,” he says. “I just want to get better at...
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