Tag Archives: Brooklyn

The award-winning musician discusses her career and upcoming concerts in the Catacombs: "This will go at the top of my unusual venues list, that's certain."

A program of American and French piano music performed by the twin Naughton sisters capped a magical night at Green-Wood Cemetery, a short walk from Leonard Bernstein's grave.

Severely underfed, beaten, deprived of food and water as punishment for infractions big and small, and afflicted with rampaging fevers, thousands of prisoners died on British prison ships off Brooklyn during the Revolutionary War. Robert P. Watson draws on the accounts of survivors to paint a lurid picture of this hellish but little-known aspect of the war.

A longtime bartender's fury at nearly everyone, from NYC health inspectors to an intrusive and homophobic landlady, recollected in tranquility and conveyed with measured energy and often at breakneck speed, delivers not bitterness but symphonic tension and release – and laughs galore.

'Death of the Dying City' by Matthew Taub challenges the reader to believe in something good when the world around gives no reason to do so.

New York City is constantly changing and not necessarily for the better if one reviews the story of Death By Audio.

Writing has taught me how to write. It has also aided my ability to think critically and examine what I feel in a more nuanced way.

Triss Stein is a fine story teller with a challenging story to tell, and "Brooklyn Secrets" is a story that resonates beyond its pages.

They would sit outside during the summer months on their covered porch, each one of them reading a book for hours at a time.

As Jeff stormed out slamming the door, Sophie sat down on the stairs trembling and thinking about him getting arrested or killed that night.