Brooklyn’s DIY culture has become something of a Portlandia-esque punch line, with the proliferation of amateur pickling workshops, guerrilla knitting collectives and “Taxidermy for Dummies” classes.

A new brewery with a hyper-local focus is going to be bringing some new suds to Gowanus when it opens on President Street on Thursday. Strong Rope Brewery is using local produce, herbs and spices from ...

“It’s giving Scholastic Book Fair,” says Shasha Léonard, the newly-minted proprietor of Backroom Books, a pop-up book shop at Strong Rope Brewery in Red Hook. Like that old childhood treat, that ...

To begin with, synthetic winch rope should be carefully spooled onto your winch drum the first time. Warn instructs owners to wind the first 10 turns or so onto your drum, then wind the remaining ...