The entrance looks like any other East Village former tenement: splashed with graffiti, a battered box of buzzers, a steep staircase lit by an uneasy fluorescent light, though a scrawled message on the center of the door—BELIEVE—may provide a hint of what’s inside. Round a corner at the top and you are greeted by a […]| City Lore
I’ve been playing mas as long as I can remember. I grew up in the Belmont neighborhood of Port of Spain, Trinidad. As a child, when I heard the drummers and steelbands coming down the hill at 4am on Carnival morning I knew J’ouvert was about to begin! I would grab one of my mother’s dresses for a costume and run out in our yard and join in. I got the idea from seeing a man playing mas wearing his wife’s dress and hat—he was just walking down the street and everybody was laughing. ...| City Lore
On July 27, 2025, one of Nueva York’s most beloved plena singers passed away. Lovers of traditional plena song will remember José Rivera for his fiery vocals| City Lore
Draft Written by Khuent Rose **Band Operations and Management** **Do you have a safe/temperature-controlled place to practice?** – **Secure Practice Space**: Identify a location that is climate-controlled and safe. Consider partnerships with community centers or schools that have appropriate facilities. **Can you put on a 45-60 min performance without calling in ‘ringers’/crackshots?** – **Self-Sufficient Performances**: […]| City Lore
2. The smooth and clacking TOUCH of rummaging through the plastic trinkets in the dollar drawers at dAN's Parents' House on City Island, a vintage toy store| City Lore
City Lore’s mission is to foster New York City – and America’s – living cultural heritage through education and public programs in service of cultural equity and social justice.| City Lore
Brenda Prohaska sits in the driver's seat of her hearse, at a standstill on the Hutch, flicking through messages on her phone with one long red fingernail and| City Lore
It's a Thursday night in Greenpoint, and strange perfumes and washes of colored light drift down the industrial staircase of Loft Story, an event space.| City Lore
Ladies and Jellyspoons, Hoboes and Tramps, Crosseyed Mosquitos and Bowlegged Ants, I come before you to stand behind you to tell you something I know nothing about. AI was something I knew nothing about. To satisfy my curiosity, I input a story I had written using traditional nonsense verses into ChatGPT. The results were startling, flabbergasting, and it’s the subject of my new Poetry of Everyday Life Blog.| City Lore
Many New Yorkers know that if you stay on the downtown 6 train past the last stop, Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall, which you are not really supposed to do, you can| City Lore
Most people associate maple syrup with snow-flanked sugar shacks in New England or Canada, sweet steam wafting from a wooden cupola, a cast iron wood stove| City Lore
