Brooklyn Food Group
Winter 2007/2008
Brooklyn foodies unite!

Wililamsburg: The Film
Fall 2007
It was bound to happen. When there are Gap jeans branded Williamsburg, should we be surprised that a film following the lives of the perpetually hip was soon to follow?

The Crier
Summer 2007
Billed as "a small magazine of big ideas," this Brooklyn publication has recently announced a hiatus.

Brooklyn Matters
Spring 2007
The documentary we all need to see about the Atlantic Yards project.

Until Monday
Winter 2006
A new community based events site that has been launched in other cities, takes hold in Brooklyn.

Brownstoner
Fall 2006
Blog that feeds "an unhealthy obsession with historic Brooklyn brownstones."

Office Ops
Summer 2006
Bushwick is the new Williamsburg (which is why realtors call it East Williamsburg). Here's one of the first art spaces to pop up in the neighborhood destined to be Brooklyn's next big thing.

The City Reliquary Museum
May/June 2006
A grass roots, neighborhood "window museum," dedicated to preserving the odd and intriguing artifacts that make up New York City history.

The Frederick A. Cook Society
March/April 2006
A forgotten fixture of Brooklyn history, Frederick A. Cook is viewed by many as the discoverer of the geographical North Pole in 1908. His crumbling mansion still stands in Bushwick, site of a grand welcome home party upon his return from the North Pole.

Fading Ad Gallery
January/February 2006
Brooklynite Frank Jump documents the "ghost signes, ghost ads, phantoms, vintage mural advertisements" that are quickly fading away in New York City but provide a glimpse into a glorious past.

Big City Big Boxes
November/December 2005
Blog following attempts to build an Ikea in Red Hook.

Rashawn Brazell Blog
September/October 2005
Blog following the brutal murder of gay Brooklynite Rashawn Brazell and the community response.

Cabinet Magazine
Summer 2005
An award-winning quarterly magazine of art and culture based in DUMBO.

Topic Magazine
May/June 2005
Produced on the second floor of a half-converted T-shirt factory in Williamsburg, this magazine has been dubbed "one of the smartest and most interesting" and "with a very striking design."

Brooklyn Rock
March/April 2005
A grass-roots effort to document the incredibly vibrant music scene in Brooklyn.

Chisholm '72 Unbought and Unbossed
January/February 2005
Shola Lynch’s historical documentary documentuary about Brooklyn's pioneering congresswoman and her groundbreaking 1972 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Block Magazine
November/December 2004
A free news and arts magazine serving Greenpoint, Williamsburg and Bushwick contains significant political coverage on a regular basis.

Black Moon Theater Company
September/October 2004
Dedicated to the on-going research and use of a physical performance style called Expressionistic Realism.

Reel to Reel Records
Summer 2004
The world's first Internet-only record label based -- where else -- in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn Philosphers
May/June 2004
Brooklyn's self-proclaimed intellectual outlet.

Roller Derby Museum
March/April 2004
It probably shouldn't surprise us but there is an archvie/museum dedicated to the history of roller derby and, you guessed it, it's here in Brooklyn.

Leaves of Grass
January/February 2004
Promoting the 150th anniversary (in 2005) of our native gay son Walt Whitman, how could we resist?

Free Williamsburg
November/December 2003
No, this is not a site aimed at liberating the 'hood from its self-promoting hipness. It's just the best darn neighborhood site around with superb music, arts and film coverage.

Brooklyn Underground Film Festival
September/October 2003
Founded in 2002, this forum for emerging film makers makes it's home in DUMBO.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online
Summer 2003
Scan digitized images of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle from 1847-1902, courtesy of a pilot project from the Brooklyn Public Library.

Caushun
May/June 2003
The gay rapper (that's his URL, after all), made the front page of the New York Times Sunday Arts section. And, or course, he's from Brooklyn.

Alix Olson
March/April 2003
Brooklyn's own folk, poet and spoken word artist, Alix Olson.

Neighborhoodies
January/February 2003
Where do you think all those sweatshirts with emblazoned with your local neighborhood name on them are manufactured? Yup, right here in Brooklyn.

Soft Skull Press
November/December 2002
One of the very best small publishers around, right here in Brooklyn.

Enrico Caruso Museum.
October 2002
Two words: Who Knew?

Falling Echoes
September 2002
Bill Fontana's sound installation in DUMBO.

Brooklyn Waterfront Museum
Summer 2002
High on our list of Brooklyn's best kept secrets.

Red Hook Blue (Site Inactive)
June 2002
Live music, art space, bar -- all in hip Red Hook.

Dotcom Scoop
May 2002
Run out of his Williamsburg apartment by Ben Silverman, Dotcom Scoop is an insider's look at the Internet, technology, telecommunications, media and finance sectors. Recently changed to an email newsletter format.

Mildred "Dred" Gerstant
April 2002
It doesn't get more FABULOUS than this. Visit the Web home of the 1997 Drag King of Brooklyn.

Small Town Brooklyn
March 2002
Another entrant into the Brooklyn portal market, this one focusing on the neighborhoods between the Brooklyn Bridge and Prospect Park. It's improved dramatically since its debut in February 2000, and has grown into an important online resource for the borough.

Mr. Chocolate.com
February 2002
For Valentine's Day we couldn't resist this site that makes you hungry right at the keyboard. Jacques Torres' DUMBO factory and shop are a must for anyone with a sweet tooth.

Black Moon Theatre Company
January 2002
This Greenpoint based company blends various western and non-western theater styles.

The Rising Cafe
December 2001
This 4-year-old Park Slope cafe has always been a favorite hang out for lesbians and gay men. Now they have a web site!

Society for the Preservation of Weeksville
November 2001
"A historic settlement of great national significance that developed in the midst of nineteenth century Brooklyn, Weeksville has become a testament to the preserverance of Post-Civil War African Americans and a powerful symbol of the endurance of a community."

Modern Day Urban Barbarians
October 2001
"Odd men, strange sounds." A Brooklyn band for the new millennium.

Digital Dumbo
September 2001
Learn all about a 3-day festival showcasing digital arts & the creative businesses who are a part of the DUMBO culture.

Wburg Quarterly
August 2001
An ezine of arts + context + listings from Williamsburg.

BRIC/Brooklyn Information & Culture
July 2001
Great web site from the folks that bring us Celebrate Brooklyn, BCAT and more.

Brooklyn Cyclones
June 2001
Even if you think their new stadium ruined any hope of a revitalized Coney Island, it's hard not to get excited about the reutrn of baseball to Brooklyn after 45 years.

Save the G Train
May 2001
The only subway line that runs through Brooklyn and not to Manhattan is threatened with major cutbacks. Find out how people are trying to preserve G Train service.

Dumbo Arts Center
April 2001
Dedicated to preserving and enriching the identity of  D.U.M.B.O. as an artists' community.

The Old Stone House
March 2001
Located along the Gowanus Canal, the Old Stone House, located in Brooklyn, New York is the site of the first and largest of the American Revolution battles. 

Hello Brooklyn
February 2001
Touted as "the first stop in Brooklyn," this a well designed starting point for all things relating to our borough. 

11211 Magazine
January 2001
According to its mission statement, "11211 magazine will be a testimonal of Williamsburg life in word and image" and it "will not be arty." Crisp, clean, hip and fun ezine. 

Brooklyn Holocaust Memorial (Site Inactive)
December 2000
Read about the unfortunate refusal to include the stories of lesbians, gays and the disabled in Brooklyn's Holocaust Memorial Park in Sheepshead Bay. 

12-Gauge
November 2000
The goal of this vast e-zine, formerly the 12-Gauge Review, is "to publish powerful and eloquent fiction and poetry from Brooklyn and beyond." 

Taste of Brooklyn
October 2000
Find out all you need to know to eat your way from one end of Brooklyn to the other. (Not updated after spring 2001).

Galapagos Art and Performance Space
September 2000
Housed in an old mayonnaise factory, Galapogos presents a nightly array of music, dance, theater, performance art and gallery shows. 

Halcyon
August 2000
On line home of this hip, Caroll Gardens coffee bar, record and antique store. 

Swing the Pussy (Site Inactive)
July 2000
Broadsheet comprised completely of letters from lesbians and published, of course, in Brooklyn! 

Guerrilla Filmmaker Magazine (Site Inactive)
June 2000
Alternative filmmaker's journal, produced right here in Brooklyn. 

Astroland
May 2000
It's almost summer and that means Coney Island. And Coney Island means the Cyclone and that means Astroland! 

Williamsburg Film Festival
April 2000
When we bestowed the honor, the third annual Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival, titled white2000axis, was about to begin. It has since moved to the Brooklyn Museum and is The Brooklyn International Film Festival. Movin' on up, we suppose.

Coney Island U.S.A.
March 2000
A tour of all that Coney Island has to offer and feast for the eye to boot! 

The Third Rail
February 2000
A wonderful on-line history journal about rail transit with overwhelming Brooklyn content. 

Brooklyn Children's Museum
January 2000
One of Brooklyn's lesser known treasures. Visit the web site . . . then the real thing! 

Lott House Restoration Project
December 1999
Find out about the effort to preserve and restore this 200-year-old house -- one of the last Dutch farm houses still standing in the five boroughs -- located in Marine Park, Brooklyn. 

Brooklyn Pro-Choice Network
November 1999
They're fighting the right in our own backyard -- organizing counter demonstration's to those attempting to block access to Brooklyn abortion clinics. 

David Bowie's Sensation (Site Inactive)
October 1999
Yes the David Bowie and the Sensation exhibition. Take a virtual tour of the art our mayor loves to hate. 

Brooklyn Coalition of Artists in Park Slope (Site Inactive)
September 1999
CAPS is a promotional and developmental arts organization, based in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York City. The Brooklyn C.A.P.S. produces individual and small-group art shows by Member artists. 

Gerriston Beach Memories
August 1999
Yet another Brooklyn neighborhood reunion/memory site, and a well done one at that! 

Pause
July 1999
A Brooklyn produced e-zine highlighting the work of John McCrory. 

Brooklyn Gay Network of Friends
June 1999
The borough's first virtual queer community, courtesy of Yahoo! Register, then chat, read posts, or join others for dinner, a movie or whatever. 

Williamsburg.com
May 1999
Yet another on-line neighborhood site. 

Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporation
April 1999
Working to restore the Gowanus Canal region of Brooklyn. 

Brooklyn Bird Club
March 1999
Birdwatching in Brooklyn? Who knew. But the club has been around for 90 years. 

Waterfront Week
February 1999
Finally, Williamsburg's hip, slick weekly mag is online. Events, politics and art converge in this neighborhoods only, real independent news source. 

East New York Project
January 1999
A creative effort to harness the web to reunite those who grew up in the Linden or Boulevard projects in the 1960s. Pictures, chat, messages. 

Save the Brooklyn County Fair (Site Inactive)
December 1998
An on-line petition and informatin page to save the Brooklyn County Fair. The National Park Service prevented this year's fair, but legislative action might allow the Fair to go forward in 1999. Worth a look. 

Brooklyn Dodgers Home Page (Site Inactive)
November 1998
Gone but not forgotten. Stats. Photos. Contests. Merchandise. You name it. 

Community Book Store (Site Inactive)
October 1998
The last of a dieing breed, and always welcoming to Park Slope's lesbian and gay community. 

Spotted Dog Records
September 1998
This record company produces another one of Brooklyn's lesbian and gay singer/songwriters -- Tom McCormack. 

B.A.R.C.
August 1998
All those cute pooches you see running around Williamsburg came from here. 

Penguin Place
July 1998
Why is this cool? DUH. Why is it Brooklyn? Because Eric Bennett runs the world's largest penguin paraphernalia business out of -- you got it -- Brooklyn. 

Lesbian Herstory Archives
June 1998
Finally, a web site worthy of this place! Explore, explore. 

Giuseppe Joe
May 1998
Openly gay, Park Slope singer Dave Hall markets his wares at this web site. 

Ocularis
April 1998
Sunday night film screenings in an old Williamsburg mayonaise factory. Great space, even better films. Often preceeded by work of local filmakers. Worth a visit -- the website and the screenings! 

Off Leash
March 1998
Where Brooklyn dogz play. Dedicated to an ecologically balanced society that integrates dogs into urban environments. 

Platform: Transglobal Urban Lifestyles (Site Inactive)
February 1998
"Broadcasting" from a Williamsburg warehouse, Platform is a street smart conglomoration of ezines and hip retailers. It takes some getting used to, but this site will surely suck you in! 

Brooklyn Bridge Magazine (site inactive)
January 1998
Brooklyn's own, now defunct, top-notch magazine. We'll miss their political column and everything else. 

Neighborhood Roots Newswire
December 1997
Opinionated news from the Greenpoint-Williamsburg neighborhoods. 

Brooklyn Academy of Music
November 1997
The jewel of Ft. Greene. Keep Carnegie Hall, we've got BAM! 

Brooklyn Brewery
October 1997
Mmmmmmm. The Borough's only namesake beer, now actually brewed in Brooklyn. Find out about products and check out those tour schedules! 

Brooklyn Telephone Theater
September 1997
Performance art for your answering machine. 

They Might Be Giants
August 1997
A homegrown Brooklyn band (both Johns formed the duo when living in Williamsburg) and an visual and aural feast of a web site. 

Brooklyn Blades
July 1997
Betcha didn't know that Brooklyn is the home of NYC's only women's ice hockey team. Find out more here. It's worth the visit just to see the Blades' fabulous logo. 

Mermaid Parade
June 1997
Coney Island's flamboyant annual rite of summer, including photos. 

Organism: The Brooklyn Web Jam
May 1997
In Spring 1993, for more than 12 hours, 2,000 people pushed into an abandoned mustard factory in Williamsburgh to see the work of 120 artists. Relive this ambient event on-line. 

Brooklyn Velo Force
April 1997
You never knew Brooklyn had its own hard core biking group did you? Check here for how to join, race schedules and, oh, did we forget to mention, team photos. 

Bay Ridge.com
March 1997
Another in a growing movement toward "neighborhood" web sites -- and this is Brooklyn's best (so far). 

Brooklyn Muesum
February 1997
A virtual visit to the state's second largest art museum, housed in beautiful Beaux-Arts building. A true Brooklyn gem. 

Brooklyn Online
January 1997
Maps, links, IRC, event listings, Brooklyn High School reunions and more! Has potential to be the Brooklyn web site. 

People's Firehouse (Site Inactive)
December 1996
Williamsburg's icon to community power and organizing. 

Coney Island Circus Sideshow (Site Inactive)
November 1996
"Freaks, Wonders and Human Curiosities, the strange, odd, bizzarre and macabre...Bring out the Sword Swallower-drag him out by the hair on his head!" Need we say more? Every hip Brooklynite has made the trek to the sideshow, but until next summer a virtual visit will have to suffice. 

Catch-A-Fire
October 1996
An eclectic, Brooklyn produced e-zine "where art, culture and politics ignite." Catch-A-Fire is an independent publication that caters to original and non-traditional works by people of color. It includes social, political and cultural articles as well as poetry, essay and fiction. 

Brooklyn Botanical Garden
September 1996
An elegant and informative site from this oasis in central Brooklyn. 

Brooklyn Metro Times
August 1996
This Brooklyn quarterly (now defunct) covers neighborhoods, politics and culture from a distinctly progressive angle. Founded in the fall of 1993 by a group of journalists and activists who thought they "could do a better job than the corporate tabloids and local advertising rags." 

Brooklyn Bridge Live Cam
July 1996
Ever have an irresistable urge to look at the Brooklyn Bridge at any time of day or night? Well here's your chance, with the image refreshed every ten minutes. 

Celebrate Brooklyn Festival
June 1996
New York's longest running, free, outdoor performing arts festival may not be the most visually appealing web site, but it's got all the information you need to have an arts filled summer evening in our borough. 

Koko Bar (Site Inactive)
May 1996
This Fort Greene cyberbar is not only a first for the borough, but also provides for a visually stunning, fascinating and sometimes bizarre web site. 

Outpost
April 1996
Ruth and Al of The Outpost, a video editing company in Williamsburg (or, in their words, "along the Toxic Rivera" ) present a visually interesting site that hosts a great selection of artists from this neighborhood's cutting edge scene. Hip, hip, hip.