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Just when you think winter will never quit, spring arrives and Carroll Gardens earns its name once more. If the number of new awnings across this part of Brooklyn is any indication, the season is ...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is making progress at Public Place. At a March 12 public meeting of the Gowanus Oversight Task Force (GOTF), Andrew Guglielmi, ...

Is it true what people say—you can’t go home again? My partner once remarked, “The Germany I left isn’t the same Germany I’d ...

The Star-Revue is a member of the New York State Press Association, a trade organization for community newspapers that was founded in 1853. Every year they run a Better Newspaper Contest, and over the ...

A “magnificent boondoggle” — that’s how Thomas Flagg of the Army Corps of Engineers described the Red Hook Grain Terminal in 1984. Built in 1922 as part of an extension of the New York State Canal ...

Last month, Carroll Gardens said goodbye to a cafe that many in the community have enjoyed visiting since it opened in 2023. Located just a stone’s throw from the Carroll Street subway stop on Smith ...

Welcome to “Wednesdays in Red Hook,” a new series that gives a close-up look into the hard work, unexpected encounters, and delightfully mundane moments that make up an average day in Red Hook. For ...

I saw the Butthole Surfers live once in Austin, Texas. Not too far from the University of Texas where I was a student. I walked to the show with my friend on a blistering hot summer day. We stopped en ...

For an industry often defined by caped heroes and major publishers, the Brooklyn Independent Comic Showcase (BICS) offers something different: a space where emerging artists, hobbyists, ...

It takes two to bang on. The shambolic, chaotic, somewhat cataclysmic duo have released a number of albums, Eps, and splits over the last 15 years, most on small labels in their Brazilian homeland.