07/10/18 3:35pm

Photo via Mark Cruz/Unsplash

It ain’t summer without ice cream. So, celebrate this blessed season with free Van Leeuween sweet treats in Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Today from 5-6:30pm, will give our free scoops in honor of its 10th anniversary. Head over to the park to score free scoops of Van Leeuwen’s two flavors: Vegan Passionfruit and Gianduja X. Dairy-free lovers win big with the passionfruit’s coconut-cashew-cocoa-butter base and vegan matcha cakes, while Gianduja X will please your taste buds with a white chocolate swirl and a chocolate-hazelnut base.

See you at the park! We’ll be hunting down that oh-so-amazing pale yellow ice cream truck.

[H/t via TimeOut]

12/15/17 9:34am
Items from the film's original opening. Via the Brooklyn Museum

Items from the film’s original opening. Via the Brooklyn Museum on Twitter

DUMBO was in the spotlight on Thursday, December 7, when Ken Burns returned to the Brooklyn Museum for an event showcasing a beautifully remastered version of his first film, Brooklyn Bridge (1981).  The documentary, which premiered at the Brooklyn Museum after 5 years in the making, tells the inspiring and quixotic tale of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, a monument so practical in purpose, so large in scope, so stunning in beauty, and so enduring in significance, that it spans not only the East River but also the world as an icon of human ingenuity, civic responsibility, and artistic excellence.

Burns’s film explores the private genius of the bridge’s creators — John, Washington and Emily Warren Roebling — who engineered the largest suspension bridge in the world at the time, the public euphoria that gripped New York when the bridge opened to the public in 1883, and the bridge’s subsequent effect on the city. To do it, he pioneered a style of photography and storytelling now known, via an off-screen assist by Steve Jobs, as the Ken Burns Effect(more…)

08/18/16 1:00pm
Brooklyn Bridge Park. Photo by Mary Hautman

Brooklyn Bridge Park. Photo by Mary Hautman

The National Park Service is celebrating its 100th birthday next week with a blowout at Brooklyn Bridge Park, to be hosted by Centennial Ambassador Bill Nye the Science Guy and include an activity where attendees can change the color of One World Trade Center’s spire.
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08/04/16 4:30pm
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Rendering by S9 Architecture

Dumbo-based home furnishings company West Elm will be the first tenant to open in the massive and neighborhood-changing 146-year-old coffee warehouse-turned-retail hub Empire Stores.

The grand opening of its new flagship is set for August 18 at 8 a.m., the retailer revealed in an email Wednesday. West Elm is leasing a third of the historic building and will also have its offices there. (more…)