Brooklyn

Scenes from a housing boom Scenes from a housing boom

At the height of the real estate bubble, I was desperate to buy a home. I had no idea what kind of trouble I was borrowing.
By Mary Elizabeth Williams Feb 28, 2009

  • "Notorious"

    Slain rapper Biggie Smalls was larger-than-life, but this biopic finds a satisfying groove by staying pleasantly unflashy.
    By Stephanie Zacharek January 16, 2009

  • Why has it been so long since a black band ruled rock?

    With their passionate new album, "Dear Science," TV on the Radio stake their claim as a great American rock band.
    By James Hannaham September 30, 2008

  • A mistake that should last a lifetime

    Removable tattoo ink makes it easy to erase romantic failings and youthful indiscretions. Why would I want to do that?
    By Jessanne Collins February 13, 2008

  • Destination: Brooklyn

    From Betty Smith to Jonathan Lethem to Truman Capote, the chroniclers of this brownstone-lined borough are as diverse as the millions of people who live there.
    By Phillip Lopate July 3, 2006

  • Apple juice, straight up?

    Brooklyn bar declares war on strollers.
    By Lynn Harris December 7, 2005

  • "You got messed-up color"

    When my husband and I moved to a mostly black neighborhood four years ago, 8-year-old Tyrone became our friend. Then one day he asked me if I was white.
    By Robin Lentz May 4, 2004

  • From Baghdad to Brooklyn and back: A deportee's strange, sad tale

    All Iraq-born Anas wanted to do was raise his family in New York. But the U.S. kicked him out, and now he's a lost soul in a broken city.
    By Jen Banbury November 13, 2003

  • Is this play illegal?

    The writer, director and actors of the hilarious New York play "I'm Going to Kill the President" are all anonymous, and getting in is like taking an espionage assignment in East Berlin.
    By Michelle Goldberg October 29, 2003

  • A plague grows in Brooklyn

    Swarms of rats are wreaking havoc on my neighborhood -- inhaling garbage, popping up in toilets, killing trees, even skirting up my leg. Still, they enthrall me.
    By Christopher Ketcham August 25, 2003

  • My Arab street

    I live blocks away from the Brooklyn mosque accused of funding al-Qaida, where angry Muslim men rage against John Ashcroft, blame 9/11 on the Jews, and ask me out for coffee.
    By Michelle Goldberg March 7, 2003

  • "They said people came and the city's in trouble"

    Brooklyn kids tell the story they were told.
    By Amie Barrodale September 12, 2001

  • Side-locked but not sidelined

    For today's young Hasidic couples, pleasurable sex just might be kosher after all.
    By Rebecca Segall July 6, 2000

  • Pony up for OTB

    Who needs horses when you've got a row of TVs in an airless storefront at the off-track betting parlor?
    By Steve Kurutz May 8, 2000

  • Brutal verdict

    Behind the acquittal of four officers is a clear indictment of standard police procedure in Giuliani's New York.
    By Bruce Shapiro February 26, 2000

  • Subway love

    Gone is the stench of urine. Into its void rushes a whiff of pheromones.
    By Jori Finkel February 14, 2000

  • Artist's little helper

    Fred Tomaselli's work offers the experience of taking drugs in the safest possible way -- through the eyes.
    By Susan Emerling October 29, 1999

  • Goodnight, Irene

    Blacks have voted overwhelmingly Democratic for years, but now they seem to be rethinking their political allegiances.
    By Debra Dickerson October 23, 1999

  • Shadow boxing

    "On the Ropes" co-directors Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen follow three fighters into the "real" inner city.
    By Michael Sragow October 7, 1999

  • He vs. she, part 1

    Even new resident Monica can't handle this one, as Rudy and Hillary prepare to take their fearsome domestic quarrel to upstate New York.
    By Jake Tapper September 24, 1999

  • Who killed Brooklyn?

    Novelist Jonathan Lethem returns to his hometown to find it almost as strange as his own fiction.
    By Lorin Stein September 23, 1999

  • "On the Ropes"

    At Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy Boxing Center, athletes fight for much more than Golden Gloves titles.
    By Charles Taylor September 21, 1999

  • Screw you, Elektra

    Brooklyn still loves Luna.
    By Charles Taylor July 26, 1999

  • Paul Auster

    The author of the recent novel "Timbuktu" and the screenplays for "Smoke" and "Blue in the Face" discusses cynicism, sentimentality, Brooklyn and the strange things he creates.
    By Chris Colin July 23, 1999

  • All pets go to heaven

    "They laughed," she says. "But later, the same people were sitting in here crying. You don't know how you're going to feel until it happens to you."
    By Kathy Dobie July 9, 1999
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