Lifestyle & Culture

In the fiction category, a novelist introduces us to a New Yorker just evicted from her apartment, while a philosopher pays tribute to Black women who combined their ancestral spiritual beliefs from West Africa with local herbal rituals and remedies still in use today.

The annual event on July 25 will bring thousands to the waterfront for recreational and educational activities in NYC’s largest natural area.

Through oral history and family narrative, “The Palms Shore Club,” captures the legacy of a Sheepshead Bay cabana club community from 1962-1998.

Thousands of attendees are expected to gather at Randall's Island later this month for a day celebrating natural hair, Black beauty and entrepreneurship.

The Downtown Brooklyn museum has nostalgia rides, scavenger hunts and more programming to celebrate its birthday.

In this video segment, BK Reader captures the spirit of the borough's FIFA World Cup watch parties, from Crown Heights to the Brooklyn waterfront.

No surprise here: Joey Chestnut and Miki Sudo won the 2026 Nathan's Famous Fourth of July hotdog eating contest.

For many immigrants, the World Cup matches provide an opportunity for members of their diaspora to gather around a shared passion and to proudly celebrate a shared heritage.

Brooklyn author and podcaster Dan Saks explores how biking can help children build confidence and independence in his new book "On Our Bikes."

The Red Hook pool remains closed, however, as the Parks Department fixes a broken filter plant.