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# South Brooklyn Network

From the Hook to the Heights, from the Waterfront to the Slope, South Brooklyn is a slice of Brooklyn. Our site starts in South Brooklyn and brings you around our world.

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## Posts

- [Photoville turns 15](https://southbrooklyn.com/2026/04/19/photoville-turns-15/) - Brooklyn's quirky outdoor photography celebration, Photoville, turns 15 as it opens May 16, 2026, under the iconic Brooklyn Bridge.
- [Lunar Eclipse, 2026](https://southbrooklyn.com/2026/03/03/lunar-eclipse-2026/) - Chuck Bigger had clear sky in Peyton, Colorado, in the early morning of March 3, 2026. And the Lunar Eclipse gave an interesting picture of the Blood Moon.
- [Bob Cousy '50 Court](https://southbrooklyn.com/2026/02/08/bob-cousy-50-court/) - I went full circle, seeing Bob Cousy as a child inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, and tonight as he was honored at the College of the Holy Cross.
- [An Eastern Regional Tale](https://southbrooklyn.com/2026/02/03/an-eastern-regional-tale/) - The 2026 US Masters Eastern Regionals at Stratton Mountain sounded so good and then It started with the coldest day ever in Vermont and ended with a flat tire.
- [A Ski Race Day in the Cold](https://southbrooklyn.com/2026/01/30/a-day-in-the-cold/) - The camaraderie of the US Masters 2026 Eastern Regionals was evident as a wind hold ended up canceling the Speed Series SuperG ski race at Stratton Mountain.
- [Mid-Atlantic Willard Slalom | GS 2026](https://southbrooklyn.com/2026/01/21/mid-atlantic-willard-slalom-gs-2026/) - Mid-Atlantic US Masters Ski Racing took on the Lower Colonel at Willard Mountain Ski Area on January 17 and 18, 2026, with a Slalom and GS weekend in New York.
- [Otis Ski Area: Through the Looking Glass](https://southbrooklyn.com/2026/01/04/otis-ski-area/) - Otis Ridge is a jewel among the hidden ski areas, appearing first as a crosswalk to a wooden foot bridge, that once crossed, you really have entered Narnia.
- [2025 Best of....](https://southbrooklyn.com/2025/12/30/2025-best-of/) - 2025 through Mark D Phillips photos and words on southbrooklyn.com brings blues, rodeo, skiing, The Great China Skywalk, and a tribute to my mom, Mary Phillips.
- [Leonard Thomas, the Chicken Man of the Gowanus](https://southbrooklyn.com/2025/12/17/leonard-thomas/) - Leonard Thomas, who passed away December 14, 2025, at 76, was the chief bridge tender of the Gowanus Canal, and author of "COOKING WITH THE CHICKEN MAN"
- [Mysterious China: Beijing 1995](https://southbrooklyn.com/2025/10/14/mysterious-china-beijing-1995/) - Tiananmen Square, Beijing, was the first stop for Mark D Phillips on his journey to the Great China Skywalk, with the 30th Anniversary on October 28, 1995.
- [Jay Cochrane: The First Time](https://southbrooklyn.com/2025/10/21/jay-cochrane-the-first-time/) - The day before The Great China Skywalk by Jay Cochrane in Qutang Gorge, China, was the first time I ever saw Jay Cochrane walk on a high wire.
- [What the Media Says: Is It Real?](https://southbrooklyn.com/2025/11/01/media-says-real/) - Hurricanes are bad, but let’s remember history as well. We don’t have all the facts so the media should not report in assumptions.
- [Masters to World Cup... It's time to ski race!](https://southbrooklyn.com/2025/11/24/masters-to-world-cup-ski-race/) - It’s almost Thanksgiving, do you know where your skis are? In the year of Mikaela Shiffrin, NEMS and Mid-Atlantic Masters have a great ski race lineup for 2026.
- [Affordable Skiing?? What a concept](https://southbrooklyn.com/2025/12/14/affordable-skiing-what-a-concept/) - This is my year to see if skiing can be affordable. Indy Pass is my chosen method for 2025 to 2026 for finding the perfect ski days on a budget. Can it be done?
- [The Crusaders Bench](https://southbrooklyn.com/2025/12/07/crusaders-bench/) - PHOTO STORY of College of the Holy Cross Crusaders Head Coach Bill Riga overseeing the bench during a 4-1 victory over Mercyhurst on 12/6/2025. ©Mark D Phillips
- [30 Years: Great China Skywalk by Jay Cochrane](https://southbrooklyn.com/2025/10/27/great-china-skywalk-jay-cochrane/) - Jay Cochrane, The Prince of the Air, stepped into history 30 years ago on October 28, 1995, with The Great China Skywalk in Qutang Gorge over the Yangtze River.
- [Qutang Gorge before Three Gorges Dam](https://southbrooklyn.com/2025/10/08/qutang-gorge-before-three-gorges-dam/) - Mark D Phillips' chronicle of what was lost in Qutang Gorge with the Three Gorges Dam on the 30th anniversary of the GREAT CHINA SKYWALK by Jay Cochrane.
- [Nelson Mandela, South Africa and The End of Apartheid](https://southbrooklyn.com/2025/08/27/nelson-mandela-south-africa-and-the-end-of-apartheid/) - Mark D Phillips and Andrea Peyser, married columnist and photographer, documented the election of Nelson Mandela and the end of apartheid in South Africa.
- [Celebration of Resiliency: Black Mountain Blues](https://southbrooklyn.com/2025/09/30/black-mountain-blues/) - The Black Mountain Blues Festival debuted Eric Gales new album, also presenting Robert Randolph and Nik West on the first anniversary of Hurricane Helene.
- [September 11, 24 years later](https://southbrooklyn.com/2025/09/08/september-11-24-years-later/) - 24 years since 9/11, Mark D Phillips looks back at his image known as "Satan in the Smoke" taken moments after the second plane hit The World Trade Center.
- [Skiing, playing and photography](https://southbrooklyn.com/2025/02/05/skiing-playing-and-photography/) - January 2025 brought together an interesting group of pics as Colorado, Massachusetts and Vermont were my choices for sports photography and just pure fun.
- [The Ice of Enders Falls](https://southbrooklyn.com/2025/02/09/the-ice-of-enders-falls/) - Enders Falls in the town of Granby, CT, is a unique location in the winter with ice creating a magical fairy land from water, wind and freezing temperatures.
- [Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk 2025](https://southbrooklyn.com/2025/05/02/atlantic-avenue-artwalk-2025/) - Brooklyn will come alive with over 125 local artists at 70 local businesses for the Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk May 10-18, 2025, from Fourth Avenue to waterfront.
- [The Surly Bonds of Earth](https://southbrooklyn.com/2025/07/16/the-surly-bonds-of-earth/) - Most can name the first astronaut or the first man on the moon. Eight names were burned into my memory with of one of my photographs, Challengers' destruction.
- [Photoville 2025](https://southbrooklyn.com/2025/05/31/photoville-2025/) - Photoville 2025 kicks off with a celebratory opening weekend on June 7-8, 2025, and will run through June 22, 2025, under the Brooklyn Bridge
- [Dance of the Gowanus](https://southbrooklyn.com/2025/05/28/dance-of-the-gowanus/) - Artichoke Dance Company presents Immersive Performance Tours of Gowanus in an ever changing landscape along the superfund waterway in the heart of SouthBrooklyn
- [Return To Morrow](https://southbrooklyn.com/2023/07/25/return-to-morrow/) - Two years ago, I was convinced I was witnessing the end of Blue Mesa and Morrow Point Reservoirs. What a difference heavy snowfall can make.
- [Temporary Detention | Forced Assembly](https://southbrooklyn.com/2025/05/12/temporary-detention-forced-assembly/) - Sharon Yamato and Stan Honda launch forcedassemblycenters.com, multimedia website introduce the history of Japanese Americans WWII “Assembly/Reception Centers”
- [Masters 2025... The Best Of!](https://southbrooklyn.com/2025/04/03/masters-2025-the-best-of/) - Mark D Phillips photography from 2025 New England Masters Ski Racing, Mid-Atlantic Masters, and US Masters National Championship. Matt Dodge or Justin Lorino?
- [Mikaela Shiffrin out at Killington](https://southbrooklyn.com/2024/11/30/mikaela-shiffrin-heats-up-superstar/) - Mikaela Shiffrin is sledded down the hill by ski patrol after second run at the FIS Ski World Cup at Killington Resort on Saturday during the Killington Cup GS.
- [US Masters come to the East](https://southbrooklyn.com/2025/03/19/us-masters-come-to-the-east/) - The 2025 A Racer’s Edge Masters National Championships will be held March 18-22 at Gore Mountain, NY, and I will be documenting the event on SouthBrooklyn.com
- [An Individual Sport](https://southbrooklyn.com/2025/03/29/an-individual-sport/) - An Individual Sport - the 2025 A Racer’s Edge Masters National Championships featured Slalom, GS and Super G at Gore Mountain, NY - stills and video combined.
- [Best of 2024](https://southbrooklyn.com/2025/01/01/best-of-2024/) - The top images of 2024 by Mark D Phillips includes Eastern Painted Turtles and a Green Heon on the Farmington River, a return to Barcelona, and Mikaela Shiffrin
- [Killington World Cup heats up the Season](https://southbrooklyn.com/2024/11/22/killington-world-cup-heats-up-the-season/) - Thanksgiving weekend brings Mikaela Shifrin and the women's FIS World Cup to Vermont for the eighth Killington Cup GS and slalom competition on Superstar.
- [Echoes in a Canyon, the new Gowanus Canal](https://southbrooklyn.com/2024/11/06/echoes-in-a-canyon-the-new-gowanus-canal/) - “Hello” we called on the new Gowanus. Our voices echoed back. This was not the Gowanus Canal of the last thirty years. It also was almost unrecognizable.
- [Three Days in Amsterdam.. an addendum](https://southbrooklyn.com/2024/11/12/three-days-in-amsterdam/) - The events of November 8, 2024, caused me to change my view of Amsterdam. I am devastated at the attack on Jews on the 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht.
- [Gowanus DRIFTWOOD Comes Ashore](https://southbrooklyn.com/2024/11/08/gowanus-driftwood-comes-ashore/) - Artist Jos Prol's Debut Solo Show Opens November 9, 2024, at Gowanus Dredgers Gallery with GIANT GOWANUS DRIFTWOOD SCULPTURE and 14 FOOT-TALL PAINTING.
- [Green Heron image wins Big E Photo Contest](https://southbrooklyn.com/2024/09/15/on-the-hunt-big-e/) - Mark D Phillips photograph of a Green Heron, On The Hunt, captured the 2024 Best in Department at the Eastern States Exposition’s (Big E) Photography Contest.
- [Sportsball at 30: The legacy of Arthur Ashe](https://southbrooklyn.com/2024/10/17/sportsball-at-30-the-legacy-of-arthur-ashe/) - The Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health celebrates 30 years of Sportsball tonight at the Pierre Hotel in New York City, bringing a new vision to healthcare.
- [The Fish Queen returns to Gowanus](https://southbrooklyn.com/2024/10/02/the-fish-queen-returns-to-gowanus/) - The Fish Queen of the Gowanus Canal, a new musical, is debuting new songs in upcoming performances at Principles in Gowanus on October 4th & 5th, 2024.
- [Remembering Chuck Liddy](https://southbrooklyn.com/2024/03/13/remembering-chuck-liddy/) - Chuck Liddy is the reason I am the photographer I grew into. Our competition at the Morganton News Herald shaped my entire photographic career.
- [Once upon a time in Pairi Daiza](https://southbrooklyn.com/2024/09/25/once-upon-a-time-in-pairi-daiza/) - Pairi Daiza, which in Old Persian translates to paradise in English, brings over 800 species to nine worlds housing 7,500 animals in a spectacular showcase.
- [GowanusCanal.us](https://southbrooklyn.com/2024/09/01/gowanuscanal-us/) - Mark D Phillips launches GowanusCanal.us, a new website devoted to his 35-year documentation of the renaissance along and in Brooklyn's Superfund waterway.
- [Return to Barcelona](https://southbrooklyn.com/2024/07/09/return-to-barcelona/) - Barcelona. 1992 to 2024, a revisit and a renewal of a love affair with travel to the Mediterranean and Spain's remarkable architecture and natural beauty
- [Satan in the Smoke, 20 Years After](https://southbrooklyn.com/2021/08/20/satan-in-the-smoke-20-years-after/) - Two images by Mark D Phillips – “Satan in the Smoke” and “The Hand of God” - bring together 20 years of 9/11 history in New York City.
- [Photoville evolves to its best version yet](https://southbrooklyn.com/2024/06/10/photoville-evolves-to-its-best-version-yet/) - Photoville 2024 returned to its true home under the Brooklyn Bridge with its best rendition yet, presenting a showcase of photographers around the world.
- [Survivor's Guilt](https://southbrooklyn.com/2024/01/15/survivors-guilt/) - Ruth Peyser was an Israeli, not originally by choice, but for survival. In 1939, she settled alone in Palestine. On her 100th birthday, Jewish hatred abounds.
- [Hello Darkness My Old Friend](https://southbrooklyn.com/2024/04/11/hello-darkness/) - Professor Jay Pasachoff of Williams College lit my interest in total solar eclipses and I thank him as I celebrate my third TSE viewing on April 8, 2024.
- [Wilmington Where?](https://southbrooklyn.com/2024/02/02/wilmington-where/) - The Inn at Valley Craft Ales in Wilmington, VT, within one of the oldest buildings on the Deerfield River, was a surprise destination in a charming town.
- [Graffiti Gone...The Destruction of Gowanus](https://southbrooklyn.com/2023/11/13/graffiti-gone-gowanus/) - The graffiti of the Gowanus Canal is disappearing as the condominium gentrification reaches a fever pitch and the neighborhood disappears.
- [Across the Universe... Colorado to Utah and a Ring in the Sky](https://southbrooklyn.com/2023/11/02/ringinthesky/) - Two photojournalists travel to Natural Bridges National Monument for an annular solar eclipse over Owachomo Bridge in Utah's wilderness.
- [A Hot New Year in Buenos Aires](https://southbrooklyn.com/2024/01/25/a-hot-new-year-in-buenos-aires/) - Buenos Aires. My first time in Argentina, my first time in South America. 15 million people and the city is thriving. It's a traveller's dream location.
- [Ski the East: The Hochgebirge Challenge](https://southbrooklyn.com/2024/01/23/ski-the-east-the-hochgebirge-challenge/) - New England Masters Ski Racing descended upon Mittersill at Cannon Mountain in Franconia, New Hampshire, for the 84th annual Hochgebirge Challenge Cup GS race.
- [Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk 2023](https://southbrooklyn.com/2023/01/01/atlantic-avenue-artwalk-2023/) - Discover new, and established, local Brooklyn artists whose works will be displayed in windows and inside the charming shops during the Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk 2023, held May 20 through May 28 from Fourth Avenue to the Waterfront through the enchanting historic neighborhoods of Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill and downtown Brooklyn.
- [Immersive Walking Tours of the Gowanus Canal](https://southbrooklyn.com/2023/01/01/immersive-walking-tours-of-the-gowanus-canal/) - Artichoke Dance Company will present Immersive Performance Tours of Gowanus on Saturday, June 17, and Sunday, June 18, with a second opportunity on June 24 and 25, 2023. This experience combines an informational walking tour with interactive experiences and site performances, beginning at the Old Stone House in Park Slope.
- [NEMS 2023, the Show.....](https://southbrooklyn.com/2023/12/01/nems-2023-the-show/) - With 17 races for the 2023 season, New England Masters provided ample opportunities to capture great pictures of their racers at top venues - visit the show!
- [From World Cup to New England Masters: Ski the East](https://southbrooklyn.com/2023/11/21/ski-season-opens-2023/) - For most of us who will never win a reindeer, the World Cup races at Killington are the official start of the Ski the East season.
- [WhiteWall comes to SoHo](https://southbrooklyn.com/2016/11/10/3958/) - A professional online photo lab based in Berlin, Germany, WhiteWall has quickly gained a reputation for its photos under acrylic glass.
- [Tessa Worley of France wins Giant Slalom at Killington!](https://southbrooklyn.com/2016/11/26/tessa-worley-of-france-wins-giant-slalom-at-killington/) - It was everything that a Ski World Cup in New England was expected to be and Tessa Worley of France took the Killington Cup GS.
- [Mikaela Shiffrin wins 21st World Cup Slalom at Killington](https://southbrooklyn.com/2016/11/27/mikaela-shiffrin-wins-21st-world-cup-slalom-killington/) - Mikaela Shiffrin wins the Killington Cup slalom in 2016, with her 95-year-old Nana watching at the AUDI FIS Ski World Cup. ©Mark D Phillips
- [Macy's 4th of July Fireworks!](https://southbrooklyn.com/2017/07/04/macys-4th-of-july-fireworks/) - HAPPY 4TH OF JULY FROM SOUTHBROOKYN.COM! The 41st Annual Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks for 2017 were spectacular. We got up high in South Brooklyn and it was quite a different view.
- [Moving Walls: Remembering an American Tragedy](https://southbrooklyn.com/2018/02/01/moving-walls-remembering/) - Sharon Yamato, author of Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps, states right at the start in her acknowledgments, “This story could not have been told without the deeply moving photographs of Stan Honda.”
- [75-years of D-Day History](https://southbrooklyn.com/2019/05/08/2847/) - It’s been 75-years since the skies were filled with C-47s to begin the D-Day invasion. Today, I flew in one as the D-Day Squadron prepares for the anniversary.
- [Magical Mystery Tour of Frank Manzi](https://southbrooklyn.com/2019/08/05/frank-manzis-magical-mystery-tour/) - Frank Manzi brought his music to the backyards and kitchens of fans with concerts along the east coast in unique settings like Wayne and Tonja's magic forest.
- [Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.](https://southbrooklyn.com/2019/06/24/auschwitz-not-long-ago-not-far-away/) - The singular face of evil comes to Manhattan as the Museum of Jewish Heritage presents Auschwitz and its role in the Holocaust in detail.
- [New York Covid City](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/05/31/a-return-to-new-york-city/) - Brooklyn and New York City will forever be changed by Covid-19. Photographs and story from Saturday, May 30, 2020, by Mark D Phillips
- [Borscht Belt arrives in Watermark at Brooklyn Heights](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/06/24/borscht-belt-brooklyn/) - Imagine enjoying all the bells and whistles of the Borscht Belt, without driving all the way to the Catskills. Welcome to the new Watermark at Brooklyn Heights.
- [BOOM!!! BAM!! SPLAT! Macy's Fireworks COVID-style](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/06/24/boom-bam-splat-macys-fireworks-covid-style/) - The Macy's annual July 4th fireworks display 2020 has been drastically changed, unrecognizable from last year's event, because of COVID-19
- [A decade of the Sun](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/06/27/a-decade-of-the-sun/) - NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has now been watching the Sun non-stop for over a full decade, gathering 425 million high-resolution images of the Sun.
- [Sports in the age of COVID-19](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/07/20/this-is-sports-in-the-age-of-covid-19/) - The Futures Collegiate Baseball League survived COVID with a reduced number of fans in the seats, in six venues from New Britain, CT, to Nashua, NH.
- [Another One Bites the Dust](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/07/30/another-one-bites-the-dust/) - Since 2016, the patch of graffiti on a warehouse by the next to the Gowanus Canal welcomed visitors with the tagline "Welcome to Venice" signed "Love Jerko."
- [Performing in the Age of COVID​](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/08/17/performing-in-the-age-of-covid​/) - Frank Manzi brought live music back during COVID with an outdoor, distanced performance at Papa Bob’s Entertainment Hall in Becket, MA.
- [Towers of light reach to the heavens above New York City](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/09/12/towers-of-light-reach-to-the-heavens-above-new-york-city/) - The nineteenth anniversary of 9/11 ended at dawn as the Towers of Light faded into a new day.
- [Buddy Scotto, Gowanus advocate, dies at 91](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/09/17/buddy-scotto-gowanus-advocate-and-carroll-gardens-fixture-dies-at-91/) - Salvatore "Buddy" Scotto, who died on Sep. 11 at the age of 91, was responsible for starting me on my path of discovery on the Gowanus Canal.
- [Photoville brings a bit of normalcy to Brooklyn](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/09/17/photoville-brings-a-bit-of-normalcy-to-brooklyn/) - Co-founders Laura Roumanos, Sam Barzilay and Dave Shelley celebrate opening night of Photoville 2020, the ninth anniversary of Brooklyn's photography show.
- [One Step At a Time: The Great China Skywalk by Jay Cochrane](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/10/28/one-step-at-a-time/) - Jay Cochrane completed the Great China skywalk 25 years ago, an engineering marvel and an early success in using digital technology from the heart of China.
- [Oil, Tar and more surfaces in the Gowanus Canal](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/11/19/gowanus-dredging/) - Dredging is underway on Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal, a major milestone in a Superfund project with an overall cost of over $1.5 billion.
- [David Dinkins Tribute](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/11/24/david-dinkins-tribute/) - I came to know David Dinkins through the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health and my time as a photojournalist while he was mayor of NYC.
- [Jupiter and Saturn rule the sky](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/12/22/jupiter-saturn-christmas-star/) - Mark D Phillips story and photographs of the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn as the Christmas Star appears for the first time in 800 years.
- [A New Hampshire Fairy Land](https://southbrooklyn.com/2021/01/30/new-hampshire-fairy-land/) - Head out to a fairy land ice castle in the middle of a New Hampshire Farm and then ski Cannon Mountain, the Northeast's hidden gem.
- [Gowanus Canal: Brooklyn's Superfund Waterway](https://southbrooklyn.com/2021/04/07/southbrooklyn-com-launches-gowanus-canal-brooklyns-superfund-waterway/) - Mark D Phillips photography stock photo site featuring 30 years documenting the Gowanus Canal for general editorial use with minimal licensing fees.
- [TRAUMA HEALERS](https://southbrooklyn.com/2021/05/05/trauma-healers/) - TRAUMA HEALERS features Chuck Biggers' images of SIGN Fracture Care International bringing orthopedic care to trauma patients in 54 countries.
- [The Boys Are Back](https://southbrooklyn.com/2021/05/28/the-boys-are-back/) - On this opening day, Worcester Bravehearts pitcher Jack Choate took to the mound and fired the first pitch to open a season of possibilities.
- [EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY: MIKAELA SHIFFRIN](https://southbrooklyn.com/2021/12/08/every-picture-tells-a-story-mikaela-shiffrin/) - Looking back at my favorite picture of Mikaela Shiffrin from the Killington Cup in 2017, I wanted to share this poignant moment once more.
- [And Just Like That....There is NO sex in the city](https://southbrooklyn.com/2021/12/10/just-like-that-no-sex/) - “And Just Like That …” is a putrid slog into Carrie's life in which there exists little sex, too much Botox and cringe-worthy awkwardness.
- [The End of an Era, The Start of Something New](https://southbrooklyn.com/2022/04/20/the-end-of-an-era-the-start-of-something-new/) - Covid-19 unleashed a dystopian opportunity for developers to change the landscape in the Gowanus Canal neighborhood at a frightening pace.
- [Skywalk at Niagara, 20th Anniversary](https://southbrooklyn.com/2022/05/17/skywalk-at-niagara/) - May 21, 2022, marked the 20th Anniversary of Jay Cochrane’s "Skywalk at Niagara" beginning a “Decade of Skywalks” in in Niagara Falls, Canada.
- [Maccabiah: "The Jewish Olympics" take front stage  in July](https://southbrooklyn.com/2022/06/01/21st-maccabiah-field-hockey/) - Seventeen women comprise the USA Field Hockey team at the 21st Maccabiah Games, joining 10,000 athletes from 80 countries in 40 competitions.
- [Route 66, the baseball highway...](https://southbrooklyn.com/2022/07/07/route-66/) - Jean Fruth captures the essence of baseball in GRASSROOTS BASEBALL: Route 66, her second coffee table book celebrating and promoting the amateur game.
- [The Bananas meet the Bravehearts](https://southbrooklyn.com/2022/06/09/bananas-meets-bravehearts/) - The Savannah Bananas concept debuted this week in New England, when the Worcester Bravehearts of the FCBL, held their first-ever “You-Choose-The-Rules” games.
- [Scherzer is a Rumble Pony](https://southbrooklyn.com/2022/06/30/rehab-starts-scherzer-is-a-rumble-pony/) - When I heard that Max Scherzer was doing a rehab start in Hartford, CT, "with top Mets prospects," it was hard to resist as a sports photographer.
- [21st Maccabiah: Israel before the games](https://southbrooklyn.com/2022/07/14/21st-maccabiah-deadsea/) - Israel is a beautiful land for the largest gathering ever of US athletes at an international competition for the 21st Maccabiah Games in 2022.
- [USA Field Hockey takes Gold in double overtime, shootout](https://southbrooklyn.com/2022/07/20/usa-field-hockey-rolls-into-the-competition/) - The USA Field Hockey team defeated Argentina to bring home the GOLD medal in a nail-biting, TWO overtime, 5-4 shootout victory at the 21st Maccabiah on July 24.
- [Masada 2.0... A new look at history](https://southbrooklyn.com/2022/08/05/masada-israels-most-visited/) - Masada, the UNESCO heritage site of Israel, finds its history in question and archaeology is bringing the truth to light.
- [The Dead Sea in Despair](https://southbrooklyn.com/2022/08/15/dead-sea-disappearing/) - Ein Gedi, Israel, on the Dead Sea’s northern basin was phenomenal in 1992. Now the resort is abandoned, a decaying ghost town in the middle of sinkholes.
- [INFINITE NIGHT | STAN HONDA](https://southbrooklyn.com/2022/08/25/infinite-night-stan-honda/) - INFINITE NIGHT, 25 night-sky photographs from 7 national parks by Stan Honda, debuts at the Schaefer International Gallery on Maui.
- [A Positive Role Model takes Center Stage](https://southbrooklyn.com/2022/09/08/role-model-center-stage/) - Frances Tiafoe is becoming the new American tennis superstar overnight and he is the role model we need to unite us on and off the courts.
- [Unity as we cried "Never Again"](https://southbrooklyn.com/2022/09/11/unity-as-we-cried-never-again/) - Twenty-one years after planes flew into the World Trade Center, the great promise that we once showed as people has been all but forgotten.
- [Oceans & Odysseys: Rachael Talibart](https://southbrooklyn.com/2022/09/27/oceans-odysseys/) - British artist Rachael Talibart solo exhibition at Sohn Gallery with Reception, Artist Talk, and Book Signing on Saturday, October 15.
- [The Legacy of Arthur Ashe](https://southbrooklyn.com/2022/10/06/legacy-arthur-ashe/) - On the 30th anniversary of the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, the annual Sportsball gala will be Oct. 20, 2022, at the Pierre Hotel.
- [New York Upholds Smoking Ban in Public Parks and Beaches](https://southbrooklyn.com/2022/10/14/new-york-upholds-smoking-ban-in-public-parks-and-beaches/) - In July this year, New York made a momentous decision to ban smoking in all state-owned parks, beaches, and other public spaces in the city.
- [The Queen of Killington](https://southbrooklyn.com/2022/11/21/the-queen-of-killington/) - Mikaela Shiffrin returns to Vermont for the Heroic Killington Cup on Thanksgiving weekend 2022, as the top skier in the world.
- [Best of 2022 in Images](https://southbrooklyn.com/2023/01/03/best-of-2022-images/) - The South Brooklyn images of 2022 is a year of panoramas, a technique that allows a bigger view in a unique perspective.
- [NEMS races two New Hampshire legendary mountains](https://southbrooklyn.com/2023/01/22/nems-races-two-new-hampshire-legendary-mountains/) - New England Masters Ski Racing returned to Waterville Valley's World Cup trail for GS races and Canon Mountain for the Hochgebirge Challenge Cup Slalom.
- [Masters Eastern Championships at Stratton](https://southbrooklyn.com/2023/02/02/masters-eastern-championships-at-stratton/) - In a challenging season for ski racing, Stratton Mountain was the scene for the 2023 Masters Eastern Regionals from January 25 to 28, 2023.
- [Slaloms and GS galore, but alas, no Super Gs...](https://southbrooklyn.com/2023/02/22/slaloms-and-gs-galore-but-alas-no-super-gs/) - Mid-Atlantic Masters brought ski racing to West Mountain in NY with Grand Slalom and Slalom races for the strong at heart on an icy hill.
- [The Top of the Race Pyramid: The Sise Cup 2023](https://southbrooklyn.com/2023/04/17/the-sise-cup-2023/) - The Sise Cup, the most prestigious award of the New England Masters, was awarded to Matt Dodge and Becka Padgett as the 2023 champions.
- [Gowanus is Dead, Long live Gowanus](https://southbrooklyn.com/2023/05/04/gowanus-2023/) - The Gowanus Canal is entering the end game of its industrial life and becoming the residential playground it was meant to be in 2023.
- [The West in Connecticut](https://southbrooklyn.com/2023/06/06/the-west-in-connecticut/) - The Goshen Stampede brings Pro Rodeo just up the road in Goshen, CT, with country star Travis Denning headlining the Country 92.5 Stage.
- [Never Forget: 9/11 in 2023](https://southbrooklyn.com/2023/09/11/never-forget/) - More than two decades have gone by in a flash since the planes piloted by Islamic savages felled the World Trade Center. NEVER FORGET. I won't.
- [GOOD LOOKING: Narrative Photographs Past and Present](https://southbrooklyn.com/2023/09/11/good-looking-narrative-photographs-past-and-present/) - In 2004, the National Gallery of Victoria used "Satan in the Smoke" to show how photography can be perceived in different ways.
- [The Gowanus Canal in the Green Gallery](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/02/01/gowanus-green-gallery/) - Movers, Not Shakers! pop up location, The Green Gallery at MNS, presented “Lost and Found in Brooklyn” by Mark D Phillips on October 19 to 20, 2019, during the Gowanus Open Studios weekend. The exhibit featured Phillips' photographic collection of images in and around Brooklyn, of scenes that no longer exist, including his haunting image of
- [Creekers Jamboree brings music to the Gowanus Canal](https://southbrooklyn.com/2022/05/17/creekers-jamboree-brings-music-to-the-gowanus-canal/) - The Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club presents the Creekers Jamboree on May 28, 2022, on the shore of the canal, with five more weekends planned!
- [Leaving the surly bonds of Earth](https://southbrooklyn.com/2022/12/04/space-the-final-frontier/) - The Artemis-1 mission is firing the imagination with images that captivate and bring back the excitement of the 1968 Lunar Christmas, an event that brought astronomy into my life. I grew up in an age of exploration that finally feels like it has returned.
- [New England Masters Ski Racing releases 2022-23 schedule](https://southbrooklyn.com/2022/11/27/nems-22-23-schedule/) - Looking to release your inner Mikaela and Kilde and race the ski slopes? New England Masters has a full schedule of Super G, Gs and Slalom races and training throughout the region. Racers from 18 to 100 race by age groups with National Championships in March.
- [The World Cup Dilemma](https://southbrooklyn.com/2022/11/25/the-world-cup-dilemma/) - World Cup soccer was designed as a celebration of global unity and diversity through sport, but not in 2022.
- [The South Brooklyn Network Top TEN Photos of 2019](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/02/01/top-ten-photos-2019/) - Continuing our tradition of photography on our website, we present our top ten photographs produced for our site by Mark D Phillips. From skiing to airplanes, it was an interesting year. And nature provided several opportunities for special photographs. Here is our selection:
- [Open House Weekend returns to Gowanus](https://southbrooklyn.com/2022/09/01/open-house-returns-to-gowanus/) - On October 21-23, 2022, the 20th Annual Open House NY Weekend gives access to places not open to the public including the Gowanus Canal. Each day from 1pm to 6pm, the Gowanus Dredgers will offer exploratory canoe voyages to view post-industrial buildings and abandoned shorelines, now colonized by wildlife and new developments.
- [East of sun, west of moon](https://southbrooklyn.com/2022/09/03/east-of-sun-west-of-moon/) - East of sun, west of moon is a timely, focused exhibition of new works by UOVO Prize–winner Oscar yi Hou, composed of eleven recent paintings that primarily highlight queer Asian American subjects. The show opens October 14, 2022, shortly after the reopening of the Brooklyn Museum’s Arts of Asia galleries on September 30.
- [Maccabiah returns to Israel](https://southbrooklyn.com/2022/07/05/maccabiah-returns-to-israel/) - On Sunday, seventeen women gathered with their coaches to leave for Israel and represent the United States playing field hockey at the 21st Maccabiah Games.
- [Bringing Back the Past](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/04/04/bringing-back-the-past/) - What a great story in today's New York Post showing how time has created fascinating ruins that today's technology can bring back to life.
- [New York Post photographer Anthony Causi loses battle with Covid-19](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/04/13/new-york-post-photographer-anthony-causi-loses-battle-with-covad-19/) - Anthony Causi, a longtime photographer for The New York Post whose prolific talent and larger-than-life personality made him a beloved and respected figure throughout the New York sports world, died Easter Sunday from the coronavirus.
- [COVID-19 Project documents our new Brooklyn reality](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/05/27/covid-19-project-documents-our-new-brooklyn-reality/) - The Brooklyn Historical Society is actively collecting material related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which is impacting daily life in ways no one could predict. The organization is asking for all of our help.The goal is to document and preserve the collective experiences of our community during the crisis, including the health, economic, social, political,
- [James Nachtwey Memoria](https://southbrooklyn.com/2022/04/17/james-nachtwey-memoria/) - Fotografiska New York presents a major retrospective of 77 photographs by James Nachtwey, Memoria, with his most prominent bodies of work.
- [The Sports World Comes to Jerusalem](https://southbrooklyn.com/2022/07/15/the-sports-world-comes-to-jerusalem/) - 21st Maccabiah parade of 10,000 athletes at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem as US President Joe Biden joined Israel’s President and Prime Minister on July 14, 2022.
- [Duke Riley's Death to the Living](https://southbrooklyn.com/2022/07/04/duke-riley/) - The Brooklyn Museum Presents DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash, a Solo Exhibition by Artist Duke Riley on view through April 23, 2023.
- [Maybe a Lead-free Zone?](https://southbrooklyn.com/2022/04/26/4452/) - So all the politicians came to celebrate the opening and the cleanup of the Red Hook Fields closed in 2014 due to Lead contamination.
- [Season 8 of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship returns to Red Hook](https://southbrooklyn.com/2021/12/06/season-8-of-the-abb-fia-formula-e-world-championship-returns-to-red-hook/) - Jaguar Racing's Sam Bird drove to a dominant win around the challenging Brooklyn street circuit in 2021. The competition returns to Red Hook on July 10-11, 2022.
- [My Autobiography of Carson McCullers](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/02/01/take-a-sneak-peak-inside-apples-gorgeous-new-chongqing-store/) - Jenn Shapland, will be reading from her debut memoir, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, at the Center for Fiction on February 20, 2020, in the BAM district. While working as an intern in the archives at the Harry Ransom Center, Jenn Shapland encounters the love letters of Carson and a woman named Annemarie--letters that are
- [Fotografiska New York Announces February Event Program](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/02/02/fotografiska-february-2020/) - Fotografiska New York, the recently opened destination for photography and culture in the Flatiron District of New York City, presents their February 2020 event programming schedule.
- [Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/02/06/vanya-and-sonia-and-masha-and-spike/) - The Gallery Players present a hilarious new production of Christopher Durang's comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, winner of the 2013 Tony Award for Best Play, opening February 22 and running through March 8, 2020.
- [Happily Never After](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/02/06/happily-never-after/) - As age-old muses for artists, writers, and philosophers, love and death have inspired great works of art and literature—but do you know where their influence and presence truly intertwine? At a cemetery! Forget the box of chocolates and sappy card—treat the special someone in your life to an exploration of Green-Wood for a walking tour on
- [Death Becomes Her](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/02/15/death-becomes-her/) - Death Becomes Her is a group exhibition on view at BRIC in the Main Gallery, co-curated and in partnership with The Green-Wood Cemetery. With an opening reception on Wednesday, February 19, 2020, from 7PM to 9PM, the exhibit runs through April 19, 2020.
- [Brittany Howard opens Celebrate Brooklyn](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/02/28/brittany-howard-opens-celebrate-brooklyn/) - BRIC presents Brittany Howard, frontwoman and guitarist for the chart-topping, GRAMMY Award-winning band Alabama Shakes, to open the 42nd annual BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival with a free concert on June 9 at the Prospect Park Bandshell.
- [Bite Size History from BHS](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/05/16/2739/) - The Brooklyn Historical Society presents their new 5-part weekly series, Bite-Size History, starting Friday, May 22, with BHS historian Nalleli Guillen providing in-depth looks at intriguing objects in the museum's collection.
- [Red Hook Fest Livestream](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/06/20/red-hook-fest-livestream/) - The 27th Annual Red Hook Fest will be LIVESTREAMED on Saturday, June 27th at 2:00 PM via RedHookFest.com featuring powerful performances by The Resistance Revival Chorus, Illustrious Blacks, Taína Asili, and Martha Redbone, with special tributes to Red Hook’s young artists and local coronavirus relief efforts.
- [The Gallery Players present Hamlet online](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/07/01/the-gallery-players-present-hamlet-online/) - The Gallery Players present a live broadcast production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, bringing their stage to the Internet for 8 nights in July 2020.
- [BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival: Live Everywhere](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/07/09/bric-celebrate-brooklyn-festival-live-everywhere/) - This year, the beloved BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! festival will be transformed into a virtual multi-platform destination designed to bring the spirit of the outdoor concert series to your home featuring Common, Yemi Alade, Questlove, and Michelle Buteau as host.
- [Governors Island Reopening](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/07/09/governors-island-reopening/) - Governors Island will reopen for the season on Wednesday, July 15, 2020, with ferries traveling from Manhattan and Brooklyn's Atlantic Basin in Red Hook. Governors Island ferries are always free for NYCHA residents, Kids 12 and under, Seniors 65 and over, Anyone with an IDNYC, Current and former military servicemembers, and Governors Island Members.
- [THE BROOKLYN-DRIVE IN COMES TO SUNSET PARK](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/07/16/the-brooklyn-drive-in-comes-to-sunset-park/) - What could be better than a drive in movie on a pier with gorgeous views of the water and lower Manhattan? Rooftop Films' one-of-a-kind urban drive in experience is located at the end of the scenic pier at Brooklyn Army Terminal, stretching out 1,200 feet into the Bay. Ticket prices start at $40 per car with up to five people.
- [BRASS BAND, OYSTERS, GOWANUS WILDCATS, FLOOD WALKS](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/09/09/brass-band-oysters-gowanus-wildcats-flood-walks/) - The Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club brings music to their canoes and the shoreline, hosting six socially distanced outdoor events along and on Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal on Saturday, September 12, 2020, as a part of City of Water Day.
- [Static Apnea, Performance art debuts at The Invisible Dog](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/09/17/3033/) - Static Apnea, directed by Christopher McElroen who is a Brooklyn based media artist and the Founding Artistic Director of the american vicarious, was first performed at The Performance Arcade, New Zealand. The Invisible Dog presents the Brooklyn debut from Saturday, September 12 to Saturday, October 17, 2020.
- [Art on the Stoop, Studio 54 launch Brooklyn Museum reopening](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/09/20/art-on-the-stoop-brooklyn-museum/) - The Brooklyn Museum brings Art on the Stoop: Sunset Screenings to its front steps and Studio 54: Night Magic in re-opened indoor galleries.
- [Around South Brooklyn: A recap of local news for March 2021](https://southbrooklyn.com/2021/03/30/local-news-for-march-2021/) - A collection of local stories from other local sites covering Brooklyn and the issues that SBN would like to share with our neighbors.
- [RED HOOK FEST launches the summer season](https://southbrooklyn.com/2021/05/28/red-hook-fest-launches-the-summer-season/) - The Red Hook Fest, featuring Valentino Park and local talent, returns Friday, June 4, 2021, with 3 nights of live performances.
- [CELEBRATE BROOKLYN! Returns to the Bandshell](https://southbrooklyn.com/2021/07/30/celebrate-brooklyn-returns-to-the-bandshell/) - The Prospect Park Bandshell reopens on Sat. July 31, 2012, for opening night of the BRIC CELEBRATE BROOKLYN! FESTIVAL with Ari Lennox
- [RE:OPEN JAM at Japan Village](https://southbrooklyn.com/2021/07/05/re-open-jam-at-japan-village/) - Japan Village is presenting a live music event for 13 days: July 11th (Sun) - August 1st (Sun), 2021, celebrating Japanese musicians.
- [Presidential Portraits make Brooklyn Debut](https://southbrooklyn.com/2021/07/31/presidential-portraits-make-brooklyn-debut/) - The Obama portraits debut at the Brooklyn Museum on August 27, the second stop on a nationwide tour, and a free event on the 28th.
- [Warhol comes to Brooklyn](https://southbrooklyn.com/2021/11/24/warhol-comes-to-brooklyn/) - Andy Warhol:Revelation, a new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, marries the Warhol we know with the one hiding in plain sight.
- [Brooklyn Utopias: Along the Canal](https://southbrooklyn.com/2022/04/16/brooklyn-utopias/) - Brooklyn Utopias: Along the Canal consists of an indoor exhibition at The Old Stone House and two public outdoor art exhibitions of artwork.
- [Arts Gowanus Artwalk on Atlantic Avenue](https://southbrooklyn.com/2022/06/21/arts-gowanus-artwalk2022/) - 1.5-mile self-guided ArtWalk through Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights, and Cobble Hill with over 100 artists displayed in over 60 local businesses’ and fences.
- [Gowanus Canal](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/01/01/gowanus-canal/) - The Gowanus Canal flows through the heart of South Brooklyn, a toxic Superfund site undergoing clean-up, gentrification, and over-development.
- [Cobble Hill](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/01/01/2519/) - Originally named Ponkiesbergh by the Dutch in the 1600's, the British gave it the name of Cobble Hill and it became a hot-spot in the Revolution..
- [DUMBO](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/01/01/dumbo/) - DUMBO sits on the East River waterfront in Brooklyn with the Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan Bridge over grand warehouse-style buildings.
- [Brooklyn Heights](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/01/01/brooklyn-heights/) - Considered to be the first suburb in America, Brooklyn Heights boasts brownstone mansions plus the greatest views of lower Manhattan and NY Harbor.
- [Boerum Hill](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/01/01/boerum-hill/) - In 1973, the Boerum Hill Association presented the city with a history of the Boerum Hill Historic District and the name became official.
- [Red Hook](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/01/01/red-hook/) - Today's Red Hook is cut off from the rest of South Brooklyn by the BQE, giving its cobblestone streets a small town feel, with civil war buildings.
- [Park Slope](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/01/01/park-slope/) - Grand Army Plaza, the northern entrance to Prospect Park, is of special interest to Civil War enthusiasts with the Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch, a colossal granite Arc de Triomphe.
- [Pictures of the Year](https://southbrooklyn.com/2021/12/30/pictures-of-the-year/) - My absolute favorite PICTURE of the YEAR is Freedom's Fire on southbrooklyn.com, featuring the photography of Mark D Phillips and Brooklyn, NY
- [Perseverance's Sends First Photos from Mars](https://southbrooklyn.com/2021/02/17/perseverances-seven-minutes-of-terror/) - Perseverance is the most sophisticated rover NASA has ever sent to the Red Planet, ferrying several cutting-edge technologies to the surface of Mars – including a helicopter named Ingenuity, the first aircraft to attempt powered, controlled flight on another planet.
- [A Tribute to Linda Mariano, Gowanus Advocate](https://southbrooklyn.com/2021/04/03/a-tribute-to-linda-mariano-gowanus-advocate/) - Grieving today for my dear friend Linda Mariano who passed away last night. A fierce advocate for the Gowanus and Brooklyn.
- [AT-HOME HEROES: An Outdoor Exhibit Projected On The Manhattan Bridge](https://southbrooklyn.com/2021/05/08/at-home-heroes-an-outdoor-exhibit-projected-on-the-manhattan-bridge/) - The Dumbo Improvement District and Photoville present an outdoor photography exhibit projected on the Manhattan Bridge of Covid19 caregivers.
- [D-Day comes to Brooklyn](https://southbrooklyn.com/2019/05/18/d-day-comes-to-brooklyn/) - On Saturday, May 18, Brooklynites will see the entire D-Day Squadron fly in formation from Oxford, CT and around the Statue of Liberty.
- [Grassroots Baseball takes to Route 66](https://southbrooklyn.com/2019/04/29/grassroots-baseball-takes-to-route-66/) - Jean Fruth, today's pre-eminent baseball photographer, and former Baseball Hall of Fame president, Jeff Idelson, launched Grassroots Baseball
- [Saving the history of Gowanus: 15 sites that require designation](https://southbrooklyn.com/2018/05/22/saving-the-history-of-gowanus-15-sites-that-require-designation/) - The Gowanus Landmarking Coalition unveiled its new website regarding the city’s Gowanus rezoning plan. The website can be found at: www.gowanuslandmarks.org The new site highlights the Coalition’s priority list of fifteen sites and small districts in Gowanus that warrant official designation by the City of New York. Having waited more than two years for the
- [The 20 Photographs of 2020](https://southbrooklyn.com/2021/01/01/the-20-of-2020/) - The 20 best photographs of 2020 ©Mark D Phillips. What do you photograph while you Shelter in Place? Nature, Covid-19, Gowanus Canal and more.
- [40 Years of Love: The Empire Strikes Back](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/12/19/empire-strikes-back/) - What a gift we got for the 40th Anniversary, never-before-seen on-set footage and outtakes from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
- [A Hole in the Sky in South America](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/12/16/a-hole-in-the-sky-in-south-america/) - 2020's only Total Solar Eclipse left its Hole in the Sky above the Southern Hemisphere on December 15, 2020.
- [The Bandshell goes silent](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/04/20/2706/) - BRIC announces the cancellation of the annual Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival for 2020. The outdoor concerts draw over 200,000 people to the Prospect Park Bandshell. This year's season was to on June 9 with Brittany Howard, frontwoman and guitarist for the chart-topping, GRAMMY Award-winning band Alabama Shakes.
- [Fotografiska reopens with new guidelines](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/07/15/fotografiska-reopens-with-new-guidelines/) - Fotografiska New York will reopen to the public on Wednesday, July 29, 2020, pending Phase Four of New York City's reopening plan. Beginning with the public opening on the 29th, Fotografiska will be operating on a reduced schedule and will be open Wednesday through Sunday, 11am to 9pm, and closed Monday and Tuesday for cleaning and private tours.
- [NASA returns to Manned Launches](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/05/24/nasa-returns-to-manned-launches/) - The launch on Wednesday, May 27, 2020, at 4:32pm, marks NASA's first manned mission from the Space Coast of Florida since the Space Shuttle Atlantis returned to earth on August 31, 2011.
- [A Tribute to Jane Walentas](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/07/17/a-tribute-to-jane-walentas/) - Jane Walentas, who passed away July 5, 2020, brought millions of memories to people worldwide when she restored "Jane's Carousel" and, along with her husband, David, gifted the majestic glass house in Brooklyn Bridge park as its new residence. She will be missed.
- [Happy Fourth of July 2020](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/07/05/happy-fourth-of-july-2020/) - Fourth of July 2020 is coming to a close and it has been a very different one. Watched Hamilton and reminisced about Fourth of July's past. It caused me to go through some of my library and look at images I have shot on the fourth.
- [Mikaela Shiffrin makes it a Three-Peat at Killington](https://southbrooklyn.com/2018/11/25/mikaela-shiffrin-makes-it-a-three-peat-at-killington/) - Mikaela Shiffrin reigns at Killington as she three-peated in slalom at the Killington Cup, the only East Coast venue of the Ski World Cup, and claimed her 45th World Cup victory. She is the dominant skier in America.
- [Waterville Valley regains its ski championship mantle](https://southbrooklyn.com/2019/03/23/waterville-valley-regains-its-ski-championship-mantle/) - The White Mountains of New Hampshire are some of the most beautiful outdoor scenery across the country. There was a time when the world came to Waterville Valley for some of the best skiiers and skiing in the United States. The first ski World Cup race held in the United States was at Waterville Valley
- [The 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11](https://southbrooklyn.com/2019/07/17/2829/) - We celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin during Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969. True heroes to the entire world. And check out the celebration in Washington projecting Apollo 11 on all four sides of the Washington Monument in actual size. It's spectacular.
- [The Boys of Summer come to New England](https://southbrooklyn.com/2019/06/30/the-boys-of-summer-come-to-new-england/) - The best players in college baseball hone their skills during the summer months in the Futures Collegiate Baseball League (FCBL). The Worcester Bravehearts (Massachusetts) brought Vandy Boys to New England leading up to their emotional National Championship. Take a road trip to see baseball in its purest form.
- [The Real Picture with Greg Gibson features Gary Hershorn](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/04/26/the-real-picture-with-greg-gibson-features-gary-hershorn/) - When two of your favorite photography people get together, you can expect some remarkable discussion and phenomenal images. The Real Picture with Greg Gibson features Gary Hershorn, one of my favorite photographers of our generation. I am proud to know him and have worked with him at numerous events. In the summer of 2011 as
- [For Want of a Stadium](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/04/15/for-want-of-a-stadium/) - We all know the story: Despite their 1955 World Series win, in 1957 Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley uprooted Brooklyn’s beloved team, moving “Dem Bums” to the sun and palm trees in LA. But what was the impact on their adopted city? While the doors may be closed for the time being, the Brooklyn Historical Society
- [Stephen Mallon's "Passing Freight"](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/02/28/stephen-mallons-passing-freight/) - "Passing Freight" a solo exhibition of photographs by Stephen Mallon, debuts at the Front Room Gallery from February 13 to March 15, 2020. “Passing Freight” is a visual celebration of the unique beauty and function of freight train cars in United States.
- [“Tack Tuesdays” at Fotografiska New York](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/03/02/tack-tuesdays-at-fotografiska-new-york/) - Fotografiska New York, the recently opened photography museum in the Flatiron District of New York City, announced today the launch of “Tack Tuesdays,” [pro. tah-k] a free admissions program offered on the first Tuesday evening of every month.
- [Carroll Gardens](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/01/01/carroll-gardens/) - Charles Carroll, a Maryland signer of the Declaration of Independence who never lived in Brooklyn, is honored with Carroll Street, Carroll Park, and finally, Carroll Gardens.
- [Comic Daredevil, Bello Nock, takes social distancing to a whole new level](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/04/13/comic-daredevil-bello-nock-takes-social-distancing-to-a-whole-new-level/) - Our friend Bello Nock is trying to add a little levity into the world. And we need it more than ever in today's world. Check out Bello's video and follow him on social media. It's worth it!
- [Videos to make you Smile](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/03/24/videos-to-make-you-smile/) - Now that nothing is happening around Brooklyn, how about some videos to make you smile? Staying home is our new norm for now and many of us don't even have views to entertain us. How about fellow Brooklynite Patrick Stewart reading Shakespeare? Or my favorite drummer Mark Ehrhardt and the Last Throes rocking out?
- [Christina Koch returns to Earth](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/03/02/christina-koch-returns-to-earth/) - After a record-setting 328-day stay on the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronaut Christina Koch left the station via space capsule, made it through the fiery reentry through Earth’s atmosphere, and landed on a bed of snow in the frigid Kazakhstani desert.
- [Rainbow Shoe Repair: An Unexpected Theater of Flyness](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/02/04/esser-necessi-far-uniform/) - Presented during New York Fashion Week, Rainbow Shoe Repair: An Unexpected Theater of Flyness is an exhibition and event series that considers how Lower East Side residents utilized a local photo studio to document community, fashion, and self-expression.
- [Will the Oscars come through for 1917?](https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/02/05/oscars2020/) - 1917 was one of the best movies I have ever seen. The "one take" format was intense, making you feel like you were a part of the story.

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- [Infinite Night: Stan Honda](https://southbrooklyn.com/downtown-brooklyn/infinite-night-stan-honda/) - “INFINITE NIGHT, Photography by STAN HONDA” debuts September 6, 2022, at the Schaefer International Gallery of the Maui Arts & Cultural Center (MACC) showcasing 25 of Honda’s dynamic night-sky photographs from six national parks.New York-based photojournalist Stan Honda has been an artist-in-residence at seven national parks: the Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest, Wupatki in Arizona; Rocky
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- [News & Stories](https://southbrooklyn.com/news-stories/) - Leonard Thomas, the Chicken Man of the Gowanus December 17, 2025 No Comments Leonard Thomas, who passed away December 14, 2025, at 76, was one of the chief bridge tenders of the Gowanus Canal. Standing on the edge of the historic Carroll Street bridge, he told me how honored he was to be the caretaker
- [Red Hook](https://southbrooklyn.com/red-hook/) - Red Hook, Brooklyn, home to IKEA and a great waterfront, was a a shipping destination throughout its history and the mariner lifestyle remains.
- [DUMBO](https://southbrooklyn.com/dumbo/) - The DUMBO Historic District is on the East River waterfront with Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges towering over grand warehouse-style buildings.
- [Cobble Hill](https://southbrooklyn.com/cobble-hill/) - Originally named Ponkiesbergh by Dutch farmers who settled in the 1600s, the neighborhood OF COBBLE HILL is known for its Brownstone homes.
- [Brooklyn Heights](https://southbrooklyn.com/brooklyn-heights/) - Brooklyn Heights boasts the greatest views of lower Manhattan and brownstone mansions that rival anything on Fifth Avenue. Considered to be the first suburb in America, the Brooklyn Heights of today is much more than a suburb. It has become one of the most desirable neighborhoods for Manhattanites ready to raise a family. It is
- [Boerum Hill](https://southbrooklyn.com/boerum-hill/) - In 1973, the Boerum Hill Association presented the city with a history of the Boerum Hill Historic District and the name became official. During the 18th century, the name Boerum occurred frequently in the writings of Brooklyn. Simon Boerum (1724 – 11 July 1775) represented Brooklyn in the Continental Congress in 1774 and 1775. He
- [BEYOND Brooklyn](https://southbrooklyn.com/beyond-brooklyn/) - Photojournalist Mark D Phillips shares his photography and stories from around our amazing world. Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Jay Cochrane's China Skywalk
- [PHOTOGRAPHY: Stories in Visual Arts](https://southbrooklyn.com/photography-stories-of-the-visual-arts/) - Photoville turns 15 April 19, 2026 No Comments Brooklyn’s quirky outdoor photography celebration, Photoville, turns 15 as it opens May 16, 2026, under the iconic Brooklyn Bridge. Read More » Lunar Eclipse, 2026 March 3, 2026 No Comments Chuck Bigger had clear sky in Peyton, Colorado, in the early morning of March 3, 2026. And
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- [OneStepAtATime](https://southbrooklyn.com/?elementor_library=onestepatatime) - Jay Cochrane’s skywalk 25 years ago was an engineering marvel and an early success in using digital technology from the heart of China. This is the story of how a highwire and a mac laptop brought Qutang Gorge to America.By Mark D Phillips On October 27, 1995, the day before The Great China Skywalk, Jay

## Galleries

- [MoversNotShakers](https://southbrooklyn.com/bwg_gallery/moversnotshakers-2/)
- [Graffiti Gone... Gowanus](https://southbrooklyn.com/bwg_gallery/moversnotshakers/)
- [MoversNotShakers](https://southbrooklyn.com/bwg_gallery/moversnotshakers-3/)
- [Ring in the Sky Images](https://southbrooklyn.com/bwg_gallery/acrosstheuniverse-2-2/)
- [Across The Universe Images](https://southbrooklyn.com/bwg_gallery/acrosstheuniverse/)
- [The Refill](https://southbrooklyn.com/bwg_gallery/the-refill/)
- [SiseCup](https://southbrooklyn.com/bwg_gallery/sisecup/)
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## Gallery tags

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- [Sports_Baseball_pitcher_superstar](https://southbrooklyn.com/bwg_tag/sports_baseball_pitcher_superstar/)
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## Categories

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- [Boerum Hill](https://southbrooklyn.com/category/boerum-hill/)
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- [Carroll Gardens](https://southbrooklyn.com/category/carroll-gardens/)
- [Sports](https://southbrooklyn.com/category/sport/) - As a sports photojournalist, I have covered nearly every type of athlete performing on almost every level.I love competition, especially on the youth, high school and college level. Professional sports have become so commercialized that it is beyond reach for only a select few, even photographers. I had fun photographing professional sports for a long time. Access is very limited now, so when I do get the opportunity, I usually take it. This section of South Brooklyn will be dedicated to sports, both in images and words.
- [Park Slope](https://southbrooklyn.com/category/park-slope/)
- [Beyond Brooklyn](https://southbrooklyn.com/category/travel-beyond-brooklyn/) - Mark D Phillips is a photojournalist. When he travels, he is looking for stories that capture his imagination. “I never know what I might find,” he explains. “On our honeymoon, Andrea and I rode around London on a dray pulled by horses delivering Youngs Beer to pubs with two cockney drivers who had a beer at every stop. It was a great story and memory.” “My newest is Across the Universe… Colorado to Utah and a Ring in the Sky telling of my journey to see my first annular solar eclipse.
- [Winter Sports](https://southbrooklyn.com/category/sport/winter-sports/)
- [News & Stories](https://southbrooklyn.com/category/news-stories/)
- [Photography](https://southbrooklyn.com/category/photography/)
- [Happenings](https://southbrooklyn.com/category/happenings/)
- [Literary Brooklyn](https://southbrooklyn.com/category/literary-brooklyn/)
- [DUMBO](https://southbrooklyn.com/category/dumbo/)
- [Neighborhoods](https://southbrooklyn.com/category/neighborhoods/)
- [WorkInProgress](https://southbrooklyn.com/category/workinprogress/)
- [Archive](https://southbrooklyn.com/category/archive/) - Past events on the South Brooklyn Network
- [Jay Cochrane](https://southbrooklyn.com/category/photography/jay-cochrane/)

## Tags

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- [Sports_Volleyball_women_in_sports](https://southbrooklyn.com/bwg_tag/sports_volleyball_women_in_sports/)
- [Music_concert_entertainer_musician_performance](https://southbrooklyn.com/bwg_tag/music_concert_entertainer_musician_performance/)
- [Sports_Soccer_Family_Great-Nephew_Melissa_Argiro](https://southbrooklyn.com/bwg_tag/sports_soccer_family_great-nephew_melissa_argiro/)
- [Sports_Soccer_Goalie_High_School_Somers_High_School_great_nephew](https://southbrooklyn.com/bwg_tag/sports_soccer_goalie_high_school_somers_high_school_great_nephew/)
- [Ski_Racing_Giant_Slalom_NE_Mid_Atlantic_Masters_Sports_individua](https://southbrooklyn.com/bwg_tag/ski_racing_giant_slalom_ne_mid_atlantic_masters_sports_individua/)
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- [183](https://southbrooklyn.com/bwg_tag/183/)
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