East Williamsburg

Forget everything you've read. Williamsburg really is more than a hipster habitat. The scene on the neighborhood's main drag Bedford Avenue, however, does not exactly give this away. The sidewalks are thick with roaming twenty-somethings sporting black...

Once a desolate waterfront littered with factories and abandoned buildings, Williamsburg became the darling of the art-school crowd lured by its relative proximity to the city and the hip night scene. The "L" train is the thread that runs through the...

Cindy Gatto graduated from Brooklyn College with a bachelor of fine arts in ceramics in 1985. But it would take her 14 years to turn her degree into a career. After years of bartending, odd jobs and travel, Gatto opened a clay studio, The Mudpit, in...

Once New York's beer capital -- there were 14 breweries spread across 14 blocks in the late 1800s -- Bushwick was home to wealthy professionals and industrial magnates who lived in the mansions lining Bushwick Avenue. But Prohibition, the Depression...

As always, the commercial powers-that-be may pressure you to spend big today for your Valentine. But before you slap down your credit card for a pricey prix-fix dinner or a bouquet of long-stem roses, consider these last-minute romantic ideas for less....

It's 6 a.m. Tuesday, and the stakeout's falling apart. From a rented black car parked discreetly down the street, Agent NO4, dressed in black, extends the antenna of a remote-control detonator and tries again to fire his cannon. "Is it firing?" he...

Some New Yorkers expressed outrage yesterday over the Republicans' use of the Sept. 11 terror attacks for political purposes, while others said the GOP was correct in keeping alive the memory of the tragic event. "I felt it was self-serving," attorney...

- Columbus Park, Cadman Plaza and Tillary Street, Downtown Brooklyn. A - Charlie's Place, Hopkins to Ellery Streets, Tomkins to Throop avenues, Bedford-Stuyvesant. F - Harmony Park, Troy, Atlantic and Schenectady avenues, Weeksville. A - Nehemiah...

When she was a teenager and the United States had entered the Gulf War, Sally Herships persuaded classmates at an all-girls school in New Jersey to record their thoughts about the war, which she then transcribed and assembled into a book she still has....