Brooklyn

Pop Gym, a Brooklyn-based martial arts collective, is bringing self-defense to unexpected venues—and the vulnerable.

• By Arvind Dilawar

Costumed dancers participate in the annual West Indian Day Parade on September 3rd, 2018, in Brooklyn. The parade is one of the biggest celebrations of Caribbean culture in North America.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

The case of the 20-year-old's disappearance in rural Iowa was a tragedy. The discovery of her body became a political crusade against immigrants that her family and community never condoned.

• By Aaron Calvin

Lee's role in gentrification is complicated, despite his vociferous criticism of the phenomenon, because in some ways he's responsible for the Brooklyn of today.

• By Brentin Mock

Hasidic Rabbis prepare to pose for a group photo on November 19th, 2017, during the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Edison-era lightbulbs, known more for their fashionability than sustainability, have become a symbol of gentrification in the hipster capital of the world, Brooklyn.

• By Thomas J. Campanella

New York University roboticists are betting that a tiny aquatic machine will inspire the community to care about Brooklyn's neglected Superfund site.

• By Libby Copeland

An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

The end result of an AirBnB'd neighborhood is not a profitable artist collective; it's an international bedroom community of "post-tourist" upwardly mobile workers.

• By Kyle Chayka

Housing affordability is highly variant from city to city, neighborhood to neighborhood. Don't buy the hype about the Lone Star state.

• By Jim Russell

A Brooklyn man who spent more than a dozen years in prison for a crime he likely did not commit will receive $3 million from New York State. He may get even more from New York City.

• By Joaquin Sapien

Brooklyn is the land where myths become geographic fact, at least when it comes to the New York Post.

• By Jim Russell

Evidence of a convicted murderer’s possible innocence sat buried in a case file for more than two decades. Now, a prosecutor in Brooklyn will have to answer for the mistake.

• By Joaquin Sapien

The borough has experienced a drop in average per capita income, but there's a good reason for that.

• By Jim Russell

What can we learn, if anything, from the drop in median household income in New York City's most populous borough?

• By Jim Russell

Stop blaming young people for rent hikes in Brooklyn.

• By Jim Russell

How development in the Big Apple is affecting places far outside of the city's metropolitan area. Welcome to the sixth borough?

• By Jim Russell

"If they struggle for too long, they're leaving New York for Seattle, Chicago, Austin, and in some cases, even Tampa. We can't have our generation's Patti Smith moving to Tampa."

• By Jim Russell

The New York Observer doesn't want you to rent—or ride—a bike.

• By Ryan O'Hanlon

New York debuts its bike-sharing program later this month. Could increased ridership on the city's already-crowded streets result in a big jump in traffic accidents?

• By Noah Davis