Dear SLG, So, hey, I grew up in Bay Ridge. I recently moved to Williamsburg and I’m getting all sorts of grief from old neighborhood friends about being a yuppie-scum gentrifier. What should I tell them? Are they right? Thanks, Bay Ridge-iamsburg Let me tell you a story: once, a long time ago, I loved...

In his wonderful book The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan posits three categories of evolved human type, three different sets of learned behavior that over millennia have burrowed deep into our animal brains, informing who we are and how we act: The Hunter, The Fisher, The Farmer. Now, of course, everyone in Brooklyn has taken this...

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Interesting homes are created one of two ways. The vast majority are created either by trained professionals or enthusiast-residents. Pros are pros, accredited, or apprenticed. Enthusiast owners follow the pros, read their books, magazines, and blogs, and Pinterest themselves into a frenzy of careful detail and curatorship.