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It is 1996 and I’m in love with Coney Island. I’m in love with its decrepit, ancient buildings, crumbling but also vibrating with color and ...

Gentrification is slow. Hyper-gentrification is fast . We're really not dealing with old-fashioned gentrification anymore, as much as pe...

VANISHING Elayne Kling of ZP Auto , previously of Noho in Manhattan and now in Williamsburg, wrote in to let us know that her shop will be c...

Artists have had their studios in Gowanus since at least the 1970s. For decades, the industrial no man's land between Park Slope and Car...

On October 7, at 6:30 p.m., the Transit Museum will be screening Jeremy Workman's award-winning documentary "One Track Mind," ...

Last month, the Times reported on the transformation of Broken Angel, a wildly creative Brooklyn treasure, into high-priced condos . Wrote ...

Retail signage in Hasidic neighborhoods tends to be of a certain vintage, unchanged for decades. (See Crown Heights Signage .) Walking throu...

*UPDATE: Earlier, based on a tipster's report and photos, I misreported that the building that housed the Clover Barber Shop was for sal...

Reader Sam writes to us from Williamsburg, where the T Quick auto body shop has closed at Union Avenue and North 10th (leaving behind a nice...

Today, when you arrive at Coney Island and emerge from the train station, instead of the grand old Henderson Building , the first thing you ...

VANISHING Neighborhood bar and music venue Bar 4 in Park Slope is closing. Yesterday, they announced on their Facebook page and website: ...

The corner of 5th Avenue and Bergen Street in Brooklyn used to house a cheap little furniture store, but Bobo Bergen is expanding and the sp...

If yesterday's post on the downfall of Coney Island at the hands of Applebee's got you down, cleanse your palate with this little d...

This past weekend, the Applebee's of Coney Island had its grand opening, unveiling a giant shark tank filled with amusement park miniatu...