CONTENTS
BROWNSTONER SPRING/SUMMER 2021
DEPARTMENTS
NEWS CURRENTS
Author Alyssa Cole Sets a
Thriller in Brooklyn
Musicians Open a Natural
Wine Shop
Building Black Bed Stuy
Crowdsources Community
Editor’s Letter
Photo Finish
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HAPPENINGS
Top Pop
FOOD
Chitra Agrawal Finds
Her Food Family
Chitra Agrawal’s Khara Huggi
or Pongal
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On the cover: A designer’s Bed Stuy brownstone features elaborate plaster detail, extensive woodwork and creative
furnishings. Photo by Lesley Unruh. Clockwise from top left: Women fish in Prospect Park. Photo by Irina Rozovsky.
Image from “In Plain Air,” MACK, 2021. Courtesy the artist and MACK. Architect Albert Edward Parfitt circa 1900.
Photo courtesy of Thomas E. Parfitt, Jr. and Christine Parfitt Schwartz. Hats and pins for sale at a Building Black Bed
Stuy weekend Market Place gathering. Photo by Cate Corcoran.
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