Ben Greenman welcomes David Cross to Brooklyn

Photos: Charlie Engman, Styling: Hillary Taymour

Young & Ng antique gold cuff • DVF dress from Zoe Sunset Park’s Adepero Oduye should’ve been nominated for an Oscar. There, we said it. Her performance in Pariah—as a Fort Greene teenager navigating the difficult territory of coming out—is truly powerful, filled with grace and humor; it stays with you long after the lights...

text by Henry Stewart photos Samantha Sutcliffe   If we handed you a map of Kings County, could you identify the borders of South Greenfield, Blythebourne or Vanderveer Park? According to a 1919 map, all were once recognized Brooklyn neighborhoods, though contemporary denizens would cock their brows at a neighbor’s insistence that he or she...

Though their artistic legends grew from bohemian lives lived in New York City, Truman Capote, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Patti Smith all spent significant time in Brooklyn, actually making art. Capote’s time in Brooklyn Heights is the stuff of literary lore, but fewer people know about Smith’s cohabitation with Robert Mapplethorpe in Clinton Hill in the...