Bookstore sales are up across the country for the first time since 2007, and we can’t think of a better way to celebrate than with the Brooklyn Bookstore Crawl on April 30th (which also happens to be Independent Bookstore Day)

Even if you don’t want to venture out of the neighborhood, there are plenty of cozy nooks nearby for your reading pleasure.

When Nyssa Frank, owner of the Living Gallery, noticed that Bushwick bookstores were cropping up like dandelions (Mellow Pages, Molasses, and Human Relations, to name a few) she began to wonder how best to bring these very different bookstores into conversation with one another

A roundup of new food and drink spots in and around Bushwick and Ridgewood, including a new wine bar, a trendy taco shop and the latest outpost of an Atomic Wings joint.