Lifestyle & Culture

Thirteen Fort Greene and Clinton Hill restaurants are serving prix-fixe menus during the fifth annual Myrtle Avenue Restaurant Week, spotlighting the corridor’s diverse global cuisines.

Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso celebrated the start of Ramadan with the Eid Committee, Emgage, and Muslim Community Network.

A Black History Month exhibition transforms six Black-owned Myrtle Avenue businesses into an open-air gallery honoring Richard Wright, Octavia Butler and other influential Black authors through illustrated storefront portraits.

The program explores Black queer history, migration, public art and community memory from Harlem to Brooklyn.

Here's how to celebrate Lunar New Year and the Year of the Horse, a zodiac character that exemplifies people who are energetic, fast-moving, social, stubborn and hardworking.

Ramadan is a period of fasting and spiritual introspection, a celebration of the month during which Muhammad received the initial revelations of what became the Quran.

Produced by the Brooklyn Seltzer Museum, the festival at Industry City on Mar. 15 will have a full-day of events, including tastings, comedy, performances and hands-on activities.

The Weeksville Heritage Center will host a screening and panel discussion on the documentary film "Everlasting: The life and legacy of Medgar Evers" on Feb. 19.

In the two weeks since the winter storm that brought 8 to 12 inches of snow, Brooklyn residents noted their displeasure about the small pathways, ice at night, the dirty snow mounds on the streets, and power outages as they worried about New Yorkers with disabilities and the homeless. 

To commemorate Black History Month’s 100th Anniversary, the museum is celebrating the African diaspora by hosting a range of events, from Hip-Hop and House dance lessons to Afrofuturistic art-making, vision boarding and printmaking.