A look at the lives of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the first Black female doctor in New York, and her sister Sarah J. S ...

In addition to shelving books, the recently completed North Boulder Library, designed by the New York–based practice WORKac, ...

Some of Brooklyn's most influential arts and cultural institutions have a new home in the heart of Fort Greene. L10 Arts and ...

The Children's Book Council and its charitable arm, Every Child a Reader, have announced a partnership to present two new Get ...

The architectural photographer, artist, writer, and political activist Elizabeth Felicella embodied this precept in the most evanescent of ways. Felicella died on December 22, 2024, after a two-year ...

Peter Zuspan and Bureau V Architecture are designing bold, community-driven spaces that challenge the conventions of art and ...

The new Brooklyn Public Library branch at L10 Arts and Cultural Center Photo: Gregg Richards, courtesy the Brooklyn Public Library As people took turns talking about how much the baton has passed ...

The event at Pioneer Works is billed as the 20th anniversary of the “resistance to the Atlantic Yards project.” ...

Dr. Josephine English, a specialist in gynecology and obstetrics, was the first Black woman to open a private practice in the ...

"She's working as a teacher, and it's her own income that is paying her way through medical school," says Dominique Jean-Louis, chief historian at the Brooklyn Public Library's Center for Brooklyn ...

“Trace/s,” the Brooklyn Public Library’s newest exhibit, was unveiled last week in Downtown Brooklyn, connecting the legacy of slavery in the borough with its living descendants. “Slavery didn’t just ...