Michael Gonik

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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...

3 weeks ago | bkmag.com | Michael Gonik

At 4 p.m. this afternoon, President Trump is expected to gather the press in the White House’s Rose Garden to formally unveil his tariffs plan on what he’s dubbed, for some reason, “Liberation Day.”Looming over the economy for months—sending stock portfolios and the financial solvency of families across the country into a tailspin with every mention—the wholesale tax on imported goods from Canada and China has already impacted the day-to-day lives of most Americans.

3 weeks ago | bkmag.com | Michael Gonik

Night Owl Video, a new video store in Brooklyn, is set to open on April 11 at 288 Grand St. “Death to Streamers! Physical Media Forever!” reads the banner of a website for Night Owl Video, a new video store coming to Williamsburg in a few weeks that is very clearly ready to square up with the streaming giants for your eyes and dollars. According to Gothamist, the shop is slated to open on April 11 at 288 Grand St. in the belly of Williamsburg, where it will no doubt feed countless local...

4 weeks ago | bkmag.com | Michael Gonik

A growing group of spa-goers is leaving the thermal pools, steam rooms, and saunas of Bathhouse feeling a little less than clean and/or tranquil. According to a recent report from Curbed, both of the spa chain’s NYC locations—on North 10th in Williamsburg and West 22nd in Flatiron—are beginning to wrack up a concerning amount of complaints regarding the company’s sanitary practices and overall quality of amenities provided.