Brooklyn on Vice

New York State of Mind

Flatbush Zombies, Gangsta Boo, Chippy Nonstop, and World's Fair

Hip-hop is having a renaissance right now in the city of New York, so we've linked up with scene insider Verena Stefanie Grotto to document the movement as it happens in real time. This week, she caught up with Flatbush Zombies, Gangsta Boo, Chippy Nonstop, and two dogs in a jogging stroller. Full story

The Underachievers Talk About Stop-and-Frisk and Kimani Gray

The Underachievers have managed to rise up out of their Brooklyn neighborhood of Flatbush. But it wasn't long ago that they were getting stopped and frisked by the cops, just like the other hundreds of thousands of black and Latino male New Yorkers. I talked with them about the N… Full story

Munchies

Walter's

So you're an all-American boy, and you meet a potential sex partner who doesn't seem terrible on OkCupid. After the second date things are looking pretty decent, and now you need a not-too-expensive place to go for dinner and drinks that also has to be super casual so you can wea… Full story

Kimani Gray and Two Weeks of Struggle in Flatbush, Brooklyn

Daily demonstrations in Flatbush began two weeks ago, after 16-year-old Kimani Gray was gunned down by two plainclothes cops with lengthy histories of misconduct, who ambushed the young man on the street, jumping from a vehicle and discharging seven shots, three into his back. Full story

Taji's Mahal - Hanging with the Bossman

For this week's Mahal, I headed out to Crown Heights in Brooklyn to hang out with up-and-coming musician HOA Bossman. We cruised the neighborhood with local skaters Andy Millien and Aaron Warner, checked out where the Bossman lays down his tracks, and ended our day with his dad a… Full story

Motherboard

The Space Suit Makers

When they first met in 2007, Ted Southern and Nik Moiseev came from two very different worlds. They didn't imagine they'd eventually be in business designing space couture in a modest studio at the Brooklyn Navy Yards. Full story

Amy Sedaris Is Good at Acting Drunk and Gay

Amy Sedaris is a booze-hound lesbo in the latest episode of 'F to 7th,' an online lesbian web series. Watch this while you caulk your bathtub or organize your compost. Full story

May Streetwear Keep You Forever Young

Mishka’s Mikhail Bortnik Deals with Success and Getting Older

One of Mikhail Bortnik's passions turned into something more than another collection piled high in his apartment, and that was streetwear. Why streetwear? Maybe because to Mikhail, as he later told me, it represented “being 16 forever, a permanent adolescence.” Full story

Tubesteak

My Very Gay Night at Very Straight Strip Clubs

I'm about as gay as Cristiano Ronaldo's underwear drawer, so the sultry photos plastered outside of New York’s mega strip club, FlashDancers, have never really interested me. Recently, though, I got to thinking, and as a man who loves sex, sex workers, the Platonic company of oth… Full story

King Kava: A Savage Journey into the Dark Heart of Brooklyn's Alt. Beverage Industry

Brooklyn is overrun with alternative beverages. Normative modes of thirst quenching have been abolished. Nobody is safe from roving gangs of maté and kombucha dealers. Amidst turf wars one company dared to introduce a new drink that will "change the game." That drink is Kava. Full story