Bars | Brooklyn (The Borough)

Nevermind the Babies, Here’s Park Slope

By A.H. Avouris

We’ve heard all the jokes before: The sidewalks are so clogged with strollers that they’ve become impassible. Bars are about as hip as a windbreaker, are perpetually overrun by the under-5 contingent, and you’ll be shushed if you curse in public. There are no restaurants other than high-chair strewn pizza parlors, making it ludicrous for North Brooklynites to bother leaving their adult environs and subject themselves to the mercurial whims of the F train. Wary travelers take note – there’s a lot more to Park Slope than Gerber Organic.

December 14, 2010 Food, Restaurants, Things to Do

tags: Bars, Brooklyn Parents, food, Foodies, Greenmarket, park slope, restaurants

Get Gay Travel: A New Way to Get Gay in the New Year!

By Douglas Calhoun

While you might only afford to dream of your next getaway in this very cold post-holiday season, the folks at Get Gay Travel – a group of young travel know-it-alls who are catering to the queer travel community – are planning to transform the way gays and straights alike get from state to state or country to country. Queerespondence was able to grill Get Gay Travel’s President Ari Warshawsky to find out what they are all about and to also get some hot destination picks, so whether you’re jetsetting or roadtripping there is a thrilling adventure in your (not so distant) future!

January 4, 2010 Queer Life

tags: At Night, Bars, galapagos, Gay Nightlife, The Gays

A Vanderbilt Goes to The Vanderbilt

By Cait Weiss

Brooklyn The Borough felt it was about time to send a Vanderbilt to Vanderbilt Avenue. And what better place to kick-off this adventure in gentrification, family history, and neighborhood love than with dinner and drinks at The Vanderbilt in Prospect Heights.

November 30, 2009 Culture, Restaurants

tags: Bars, Foodies, Prospect Heights, Urban Manifest Destiny, Vanderbilt Avenue

Love Your Bartender: Scott Gold, Char No. 4

By Cait Weiss

Brooklyn is a borough of bars and rumor has it, we have many other things too. Be that true or not, Brooklyn is a unique hub of distinct neighborhood taverns, each filled with its own pack of fiercely dedicated locals. It’s no surprise, then, that Brooklyn is also a borough of bartenders. In Love Your Bartender, a brand new feature on BrooklynTheBorough.com, we’ll take a look at men and women who stand out as they stand behind our Brooklyn bars. We’ll also find out where they choose to let their hair down, and let someone else pour the pints for a change.

November 2, 2009 Bars, Culture, Restaurants, The People

tags: At Night, Bars, Boerum Hill, Boerum Hill, Love Your Bartender, Tourism

Brooklyn Indoors: A Quarter ‘Til

By Douglas Calhoun

At the corner of 20th Street and 5th Avenue in Windsor Terrace is an unassuming and apt place for Quarter Bar, named for its cross streets (20 + 5!). I recently rolled in very close to last call after working a bartending shift.

October 20, 2009 Bars

tags: At Night, Bars, Creative Underclass, Style, Sunset Park, Whole Foods

Brooklyn Indoors: A Talking Head and Free Popcorn

By Douglas Calhoun

David Byrne played Prospect Park this summer, bringing with him a version of his Radio City show that has been turning heads with Talking Heads classics and tunes off of his latest Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. He chose Park Slope spot High Dive for his nightcap and for good reason.

October 13, 2009 Bars

tags: 5th Avenue, At Night, Bars, Brooklyn Indoors, Creative Underclass, park slope