Socrates Sculpture Park was once an industrial landfill. In 30 short years, it has transformed into a cultural institution, known by some to be “New York City’s prominent sculpture park and social ...

From time to time, we all need to escape from the city. Across the East River, a new refuge now exists on Governors Island. Much to the delight of my inner child, it also comes in the form of a tre...

Coinciding with June's LGBT Pride month, Mayor Bill de Blasio and the NYC Commission on Human Rights recently launched a $265,000 ad campaign that promotes transgender people’s right to use restroo...

According to a community Facebook page (facebook.com/haveyouseenphil/info/?tab=page_info), Phil was born in 2016. The sneaky, blue bunny, with its big buck teeth, loves playing hide-and-seek and f...

Every year, Heritage of Pride organizes a variety of LGBT events in commemoration of the 1969 Stonewall Riots, which are considered by many to be the beginning of the gay liberation movement. The ...

Every year, Heritage of Pride organizes a variety of LGBT events in commemoration of the 1969 Stonewall Riots, which are considered by many to be the beginning of the gay liberation movement. The ...

JunXion NYC (junxion.nyc/#landing) is reinventing the entertainment industry. The “mobile venue” brings together art, music and culture to create transcendental (and transportable) parties. The mi...

In 1980, Pastor Bill Wilson managed to successfully establish Metro World Child (formerly Metro Ministries) in one of Brooklyn’s roughest neighborhoods. At the time, the area was ridden with crime,...

On the corner of St. Nicholas Avenue and Troutman Street in Bushwick, a line of papers are taped onto the building walls. A poster, covered in red handprints, hangs below it and screams “STOP RAPE ...

Located down a random alleyway in Brooklyn, you can find a “true French flea market.” It sits discreetly between two houses in the heart of historic Cobble Hill at 451 Union St.

As the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world, Queens is home to some of the best international supermarkets. In Long Island City, for example, Food Bazaar (myfoodbazaar.com) now sits in t...

The Bushwick Collective Block Party (twitter.com/thebkcollective), Brooklyn’s ultimate weekend fiesta, recently kicked off the month of June with live music, art and food.

Eager to share his collectibles (particularly his mid-19th-century cast-iron pieces) with other New Yorkers, Sung Park, a longtime Queens resident and antique aficionado, decided to convert an old ...