Fort Greene

'Girls': Join a live chat with Alex Karpovsky today

2013-06-07 12:00:00

It's a shame about Ray. Or is it? Join "Girls" cast member Alex Karpovsky today at 1 p.m. PDT as we talk about how Ray's doing these days since Shoshanna broke his heart in the Season 2 finale of Lena Dunham's acclaimed comedy. When we spoke to Dunham...

'Girls': Join a live chat with Alex Karpovsky on Tuesday

2013-06-03 07:00:00

It's a shame about Ray. Or is it? Join "Girls" cast member Alex Karpovsky on Friday at 1 p.m. PDT to talk about how Ray's doing these days since Shoshanna broke his heart in the Season 2 finale of Lena Dunham's acclaimed comedy. When we spoke to...

Brooklyn Festival samples the new classical music of the borough

2013-04-14 09:00:00

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Composer and French horn player Matt Marks, 33, has just completed writing a vocal and orchestral work for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the biggest commission of his life, but this Sunday afternoon in March he's playing the ukulele...

Julie Taymor returns to directing with 'Midsummer Night's Dream'

2013-01-23 16:08:00

Since being fired in 2011 from the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," director Julie Taymor has kept a relatively low public profile, her time presumably occupied by the ongoing lawsuit between her and the show's producers.� Taymor...

Live review: The Brooklyn bodega rap of eXquire

2011-09-06 21:36:19

Mario Batali: chef, movie star

2010-12-30 00:00:00

How's this for a slice of irony? Mario Batali, dressed in a suit, no orange Crocs in sight, is seated at a gleaming restaurant counter in a Manhattan eatery, haranguing a chef who works for him: "In a down economy, green doesn't play," Batali insists...

Pop-up eateries a hit with New York's hip

2010-03-08 00:00:00

When it comes to dining like a Gotham insider, you probably know all about food trucks and the secret speakeasies. But what about pop-up restaurants? Born of the flailing economy, pop-up restaurants arrived on the New York scene a little more than a year...

'City Kid' by Nelson George

2009-04-19 00:00:00

City Kid A Writer's Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-Soul Success Nelson George Viking: 248 pp., $25.95 Nelson George is a true hyphenate -- journalist, music critic, cultural critic, filmmaker, novelist -- whose many endeavors have met with more or...

Brooklyn dodgers

2013-03-19 18:38:00

NEW YORK — Sorry, but I've heard that Brooklyn is over. You can get your hipster mustache waxed; just don't do it in Brooklyn. You wouldn't go to Seattle now, would you? If you wanted to visit the American community of the moment, you would visit,...

Brooklyn native Gibson could start for Bulls' Boozer

2013-02-01 08:48:00

NEW YORK – The timing is almost Hollywood, though the setting is urban and gritty. Or at least used to be gritty. With Bulls forward Carlos Boozer saying his right hamstring remains “sore and stiff,” there’s a good chance Taj...

Taymor to direct 'Midsummer': Off Broadway outing will christen TFANA venue

2013-01-23 18:30:05

Julie Taymor has settled on "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as the play she'll helm to inaugurate the new Brooklyn homebase of Theater for a New Audience this fall. The Off Broadway production "Midsummer" will be Taymor's first gig for the Gotham stage since...

1 Killed, Another Injured In Brooklyn Construction Collapse

2012-09-10 14:08:00

Investigators are focusing on a delivery of cinderblocks as being the cause of a steel roof collapse at a Fort Greene construction site. Officials say a 67 year old worker died, after falling 40 feet to basement. It happened around 9 this morning...

Kids play basketball in Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn , NY, two blocks from where Michael Jordan was born Feb. 17, 1963 at Cumberland Hospital.

2009-08-27 00:00:00

Four-story building collapses in Fort Greene Brooklyn

2009-06-21 00:00:00

Four-story building collapses in Fort Greene Brooklyn

2009-06-21 00:00:00