Brooklyn Magazine

Brooklyn Magazine is a digital news platform that highlights the vibrant culture, community, business, arts, and leisure of New York's largest borough. Acquired by Michael Bassik, the website went live in December 2020. Previously, it was a glossy quarterly magazine that showcased the arts, fashion, and upscale culture of Brooklyn, New York.

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Best Legal Weed Dispensaries in Brooklyn

1 week ago | bkmag.com | Zach Harris

4/20 is here, and it’s time to light up. The unofficial start of spring’s warmer weeks, weed’s high holiday has become a big deal in NYC since legalization hit, with clouds of smoke rising high over every bit of green space in the city. But before you grab a blanket and stake out your secluded stoner picnic spot in Prospect Park, you’ve gotta pick up your stash, and Brooklyn’s burgeoning legal dispensary scene is ready to get you right.
What to Do in Brooklyn: Weekend Guide

1 week ago | bkmag.com | Shawn Setaro

This weekend encompasses both Easter and the last days of Passover. To that end, we’re bringing you plenty of chances to celebrate (and to maybe get a little weird). But we’re also providing a few creepy and somber options. It’s only appropriate. After all, for these holidays, we’ll often gather with loved ones, but both get darker beneath the surface. (Metallica titled their song about the Passover story “Creeping Death” for a reason.)But enough Bay Area thrash classics (for now, at least).
Brooklyn Luxury Building Gives Tenants Gift Cards

1 week ago | bkmag.com | Lucas Wisenthal

Brooklyn is home to at least one luxury high-rise for DINKs and DINKs alone, and another that’s mostly vacant. N0w, a tower at 18 Sixth Avenue, in Prospect Heights, is luring prospective tenants with a promise that’s apparently heretofore unheard of: Visa gift cards to help cover the cost of in-building social events. As Curbed...
5 Brooklyn Record Stores Hiding in Plain Sight

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.
Weekend Guide: Murs, Smorgasburg + More

2 weeks ago | bkmag.com | Shawn Setaro

It may be a dirty word in our nation’s capital, but “diversity” is the name of the game here at Weekend Guide. We’ve got events of all kinds on the slate this week: readings, screenings, concerts, performances, DJ nights, festivals, food markets, and even a ferris wheel opening. Anything from the list below is guaranteed to be a great time, and a lot of it, as always, is unique to Brooklyn.
Students at JAY-Z's Roc Nation School Claim "Debt-Free" Scholarship is a "Scam"

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...
10 Spots Serving Up Absurdly Enjoyable Onigiri

2 weeks ago | bkmag.com | Max Kalnitz

You don’t have to look very hard to find onigiri in Japan. The delicious rice balls—stuffed with a variety of fillings from tuna to salmon and pickled plum—are sold in convenience stores, on trains, and at izakayas. They’re one of the most popular and affordable snacks in the country. In fact, the Japanese have enjoyed them for over 2,000 years, largely thanks to the convenience provided by their inherent portability.
How The Trump Tariffs Could Tax Legal Weed in NYC

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.
Cyclones' Opening Day, Sound Bathing + More

3 weeks ago | bkmag.com | Shawn Setaro

Spring started on March 20 this year, but there’s a milestone happening this weekend that’s even more important: opening day for the Brooklyn Cyclones. Your favorite minor league Mets affiliate kicks things off on Friday with a game against the Wilmington Blue Rocks. In celebration, we’ve kept a particularly local focus for this edition of the Weekend Guide, with BK-based shopping and drinking events.
This New Williamsburg Video Store is Going to War with Streamers

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...