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2 weeks ago | 
bkmag.com | Michael Gonik
Shows by Empire of The Sun and The Chainsmokers were impacted by the latest round of delays from Brooklyn Mirage Hate to say we called it, but alas. Brooklyn Mirage has wiped its calendar clean yet again.
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3 weeks ago | 
bkmag.com | Michael Gonik
It’s been an unenviable run for Brooklyn Mirage these last few weeks. First, they pull the plug on opening weekend just hours ahead of their first performance. Then, the venue was (presumably) forced to do the same the following weekend. And now, it seems they’ve quietly cleared yet another weekend of programming after failing a safety inspection on May 1. It marks their third consecutive week of cancellations, relocations, and delays.
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3 weeks ago | 
bkmag.com | Michael Gonik
During a recent forum, the mayor proposed a new high-rise—which would be the borough's second-tallest—directly across the street from Brooklyn Tower Brooklyn Tower, the borough’s tallest and emptiest high-rise, could be getting a new, barely smaller neighbor. According to Gothamist, Mayor Eric Adams floated a proposal at a recent forum with top real estate brass for a new building at 395 Flatbush Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, a bustling corner facing Brooklyn Paramount to the south and...
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1 month ago | 
bkmag.com | Michael Gonik
BRIC unveils the full schedule for the 2025 installment of 'Celebrate Brooklyn,' featuring appearances from Grace Jones, Janelle Monáe, Nick Hakim, and more If your summer plan needed some juice, BRIC may have just provided the battery.
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1 month ago | 
bkmag.com | Michael Gonik
The 2025 Met Gala may have come and gone, but for those of us who use the annual benefit as a discovery platform for innovators in fashion, the best part is arguably just beginning. To aid your research, we did a little digging only to learn many of the evening’s most discussed red carpet moments were helmed by a Brooklyn born or raised designer, stylist, or brand.
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1 month ago | 
bkmag.com | Michael Gonik
City officials pulled the plug on Brooklyn Mirage just hours before it was set to host its first show of the year After Brooklyn Mirage CEO Josh Wyatt pledged to be “100 percent” ready for a May 1 launch, the venue was forced to cancel its opening day performance from Sara Landry just hours before she took the stage. And the weekend’s not looking too promising, either. According to a Brooklyn Paper report, the Department of Buildings put three of the venue’s construction permits on hold after...
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1 month ago | 
bkmag.com | Michael Gonik
Don’t look now, but Summerstage is back, and this year’s slate is as hot as ever. The annual city-wide reclamation of city parks by (mostly) free live music and arts programming will commence, with an “opening ceremony” of sorts, on June 4 in Central Park with performances Marcus Miller, The Soul Rebels, and Tank and The Bangas. But this is a season-long effort with more than 70 shows across 13 parks in all five boroughs.
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1 month ago | 
bkmag.com | Michael Gonik
It seems under-delivering on amenities and basic maintenance is becoming the quiet standard of loud luxury. And, if the spiritual (and physical) emptiness of Brooklyn Tower didn’t prove it, a high-end residential building on the Greenpoint waterfront might. According to a report from Curbed, tenants at the Eagle + West buildings overlooking the East River at the very northern edge of the borough are noticing some very inelegant quirks to their ostensibly lavish digs.
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1 month ago | 
bkmag.com | Michael Gonik
If you’ve followed these pages over the years, you already know Record Store Day is every damn day, and Brooklyn’s selection of record shops is so extensive it is effectively unmatched. But some of those excavation sites require a bit more digging than others to unearth, which is a loving labor, honestly, not entirely unlike the art of crate-crashing itself.
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2 months ago | 
bkmag.com | Michael Gonik
The JAY-Z-backed Roc Nation School at LIU's Brooklyn campus awarded a "debt-free" scholarship to dozens of students in its inaugural class When the Roc Nation School launched at Long Island University’s Downtown Brooklyn campus in 2021, as many as 50 students from its inaugural class were awarded what they believed were “debt-free” scholarships by JAY-Z‘s behemoth entertainment company. Meaning: no loans or grants would be required for the completion of their degree. However, at least a dozen...
