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Oct 23, 2024 | 
gothamist.com | Alison Stewart |Luke Green
Nicholas Heller, known to his millions of followers as New York Nico, calls himself the “unofficial talent scout of New York.” He wanders around the city making videos with quintessential New York City characters and shares them on his popular Instagram and TikTok accounts.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
gothamist.com | Alison Stewart |Luke Green
Samara Joy returns with her third album, “Portrait,” which was released on Friday. It’s her follow-up to her second album “Linger Awhile,” which won the 2023 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album. Joy, 24, was born in the Bronx and attended SUNY Purchase’s jazz program to study voice. She acknowledged that the past couple of years have been overwhelming at times. “I wasn't expecting any of this,” she said. “It wasn't like, 'OK, I have a plan. I'm going to go to jazz school.
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
gothamist.com | Alison Stewart |Luke Green
How did Brooklyn go from being a slave capital to having a free population? Who ignited the change? These are among the questions Prithi Kanakamedala, a professor of history at Bronx Community College, examines in her new book, “Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a Borough."In the years after the American Revolution, Brooklyn was a slaveholding capital.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
gothamist.com | Alison Stewart |Luke Green
Writer Ian Frazier has spent the last 15 years walking the Bronx, mastering its geography, researching its history and getting to know its culture and people. The result of his walks is a new book called “Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough.”"The Bronx is the continent, and once you're on it, you can go for thousands of miles without seeing ocean again,” he writes in the book. “The other boroughs, for their part, cling to the Bronx for dear life.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
gothamist.com | Alison Stewart |Luke Green
A new retrospective at The Bronx Museum features decades of work by a New York City artist who found himself amid a cultural revolution. Futura 2000 was a pioneer of graffiti culture in the '70s and '80s, when young people in The Bronx and Brooklyn started “writing,” using the subway trains as a canvas for their work.
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
gothamist.com | Alison Stewart |Luke Green
We are approaching the end of peak moving season, when leases are signed and rental prices in the city are typically their highest. Once you land on a place, it might seem daunting or unaffordable to start decorating, but even in New York, design doesn't have to cost much.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
gothamist.com | Alison Stewart |Luke Green
This year marks 15 years since the High Line's opening in June 2009. The trail occupies an elevated rail line that was an industrial symbol of Manhattan's West Side until 1980, when the last train ran on the tracks. Mother Nature would slowly overtake the unused rails over the next two decades. But when the city planned to tear down the elevated rail line, neighbors created their own plan to transform them into a public space.
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May 14, 2024 | 
gothamist.com | Kousha Navidar |Luke Green
"The Wiz" is back on Broadway. It's in the midst of a revival at the Marquis Theater, with an updated book by Amber Ruffin — who is also a writer for “Late Night with Seth Meyers” — and choreography from JaQuel Knight, who worked with Beyoncé on “Formation” and “Single Ladies.”The show stars Wayne Brady as the Wiz, and Nichelle Williams makes her Broadway debut as Dorothy after being discovered on TikTok.
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Mar 24, 2024 | 
gothamist.com | David Furst |Luke Green
The 2024 Whitney Biennial opened to the public on Wednesday. The art show, which happens every two years, is the longest-running survey of American art in the US. This year’s event, called “Even Better Than The Real Things,” features 71 artists, whose works include short films, sculpture and abstract painting. WNYC’s David Furst talked to the curators of the Biennial, Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli, on a recent episode of “All of It.” An edited version of their conversation is below.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
gothamist.com | Kousha Navidar |Luke Green
Brooklyn artist Rusty Zimmerman painted 200 South Brooklyn residents last year – for free. Zimmerman received more than 650 applications and painted around five portraits per week, all of people who live south of Prospect Park. The result of that effort is an exhibition called “We Are South Brooklyn,” which features his portraits and is on display at Industry City through March 24.
