Author: schnepsrestagent

‘Spring, good food, and sun’: Smorgasburg is back in Brooklyn and Manhattan

smorgasburg in prospect park

Apr. 8, 2024 By Gabriele Holtermann

Smorgasburg, New York City’s largest open-air food market, kicked off its new season at the Oculus at the World Trade Center on Friday and in Williamsburg on Saturday before thousands of food lovers headed to Brooklyn on Sunday for the opening of Smorgasburg Prospect Park. 

A history of earthquakes in Kings County: When Brooklyn shook in 1935

1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 9 in.

Apr. 5, 2024 By Susan De Vries

People tumbled out of their beds, dishes rattled in cupboards, and buildings swayed in Brooklyn — not from this morning’s temblor, but back in 1935 when an earthquake hit the East Coast on November 1, 1935.