Brooklyn History: Gowanus Oysters, Turtle Soup
August 19, 2025
By Cole Sinanian A lunch guest at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in Madison Square at the turn of the 20th century could’ve ordered their oysters
By Cole Sinanian A lunch guest at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in Madison Square at the turn of the 20th century could’ve ordered their oysters
By COLE SINANIAN and JACK DELANEY | news@queensledger.com Brokers working for landlords who say they’ve never heard of them. Unlisted apartments with sketchy caveats. Scribbled-in “processing” charges
By COLE SINANIAN | news@queensledger.com Under overcast skies and braving the gusty harbor winds blowing off upper New York Bay, dozens of Red Hook, Columbia
By JACK DELANEY | jdelaney@queensledger.com When two worldviews collide — in this case, the reticent number-crunching of scientists, and the lived reality of residents — the
BY JACK DELANEY | jdelaney@queensledger.com To a passerby strolling down the sunny sidewalk, it might have seemed improbable: the main obstacle preventing one of the largest
By ELEANOR TRAUBMAN | etraubman@gmail.com Melissa Dimas, SFX Youth Sports – Brooklyn Girls Basketball Coach and Finalist in the Brooklyn Basketball Jr. NBA/WNBA Coach of
BY NICHOLAS GORDON | ng639@georgetown.edu Over a dozen grocery store owners have banded together to form the “New York State of Wine” coalition in an effort
By JACK DELANEY | jdelaney@queensledger.com The gods of transportation taketh, but they giveth too. Last December, the MTA was facing a strange problem: the wheels
By ALICE MORENO | news@queensledger.com The Year of the Snake celebration kicked off in Chinatown on February 16. Though the rain poured through most of the
The architecture firm NBBJ partnered with local leaders to envision a modernized SUNY Downstate, only a year after the hospital was slated for closure. By
By Cole Sinanian A lunch guest at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in Madison Square at the turn of the 20th century could’ve ordered their oysters
By COLE SINANIAN and JACK DELANEY | news@queensledger.com Brokers working for landlords who say they’ve never heard of them. Unlisted apartments with sketchy caveats. Scribbled-in “processing” charges
By COLE SINANIAN | news@queensledger.com Under overcast skies and braving the gusty harbor winds blowing off upper New York Bay, dozens of Red Hook, Columbia
By JACK DELANEY | jdelaney@queensledger.com When two worldviews collide — in this case, the reticent number-crunching of scientists, and the lived reality of residents — the
BY JACK DELANEY | jdelaney@queensledger.com To a passerby strolling down the sunny sidewalk, it might have seemed improbable: the main obstacle preventing one of the largest
By ELEANOR TRAUBMAN | etraubman@gmail.com Melissa Dimas, SFX Youth Sports – Brooklyn Girls Basketball Coach and Finalist in the Brooklyn Basketball Jr. NBA/WNBA Coach of
BY NICHOLAS GORDON | ng639@georgetown.edu Over a dozen grocery store owners have banded together to form the “New York State of Wine” coalition in an effort
By JACK DELANEY | jdelaney@queensledger.com The gods of transportation taketh, but they giveth too. Last December, the MTA was facing a strange problem: the wheels
By ALICE MORENO | news@queensledger.com The Year of the Snake celebration kicked off in Chinatown on February 16. Though the rain poured through most of the
The architecture firm NBBJ partnered with local leaders to envision a modernized SUNY Downstate, only a year after the hospital was slated for closure. By
