Lost in Brooklyn

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Brooklyn. Once the scrappy sibling in New York’s borough family, it has long since shrugged off any inferiority complex. Now, it’s the global capital of cool—where brownstone stoop s double as office desks or where a bodega cat might have more Instagram followers than you. Brooklyn is a borough of contradictions. Luxury condos cast shadows over anarchist bookstores. Vegan bakeries coexist with 100-year-old pastrami-slinging delis. You’ll find rooftop raves in Gowanus warehouses and backyard poetry readings in Bed-Stuy. Vintage is currency, and authenticity is curated with intent. But beyond the kaleidoscope of clichés lies some-thing magnetic. LOST iN introduces you to the locals who make the borough tick: the Coney Island native giving food tours from his vintage checkered cab, the Le Cordon Bleu–trained chef who left the line to cook in a Clinton Hill brownstone, the DJ weaving genre-spanning sets laced with sounds from the streets. You’ll discover where a new generation of car aficionados gather in a forgotten Navy Yard terminal, where to sip from a 13-glass martini fountain with escargot, and how to pick up skating at an intergalactic dream-rink lit like a spaceship landing. Brooklyn is messy and mythic. A borough forever under construction—of buildings, identities, dreams. Get lost in its maze of neighbourhoods, its alchemy of edge and warmth. Get lost in Brooklyn. Designer: NODE BerlinSize: 160x210mmPages: 68Binding: Softbound magazine Show more