You’ve probably heard music that was recorded at Studio G Brooklyn, the legendary sound laboratory tucked into the border of Greenpoint and Williamsburg. Clients of the space have included Aaron Neville, Bonobo, Ani DiFranco, Tom Waits, Talib Kweli, Sesame Street, Spotify, and many more. Our podcast guest Joel Hamilton, an acclaimed producer and en…

Morris Levy grew up in the fashion industry, but after 15 years in the business he decided real estate held more of his interest. Now he runs The Yard, the co-working company that started in Brooklyn and now has 14 locations in New York City, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. We sat down with him to learn more about his successful and trans…

“I came to New York to study acting,” says Boaz Gilad, but he wound up distinguishing himself in quite another field. He’s currently Brooklyn’s most prolific real-estate developer, as measured by the number of projects underway (three dozen at the moment). “One thing led to the other and I thought to myself, while I’m pursuing my passion, which was…

“If you think about every headphone you’ve ever tried, the assumption is that you have perfect hearing across all frequency ranges, your hearing is completely symmetrical, and it miraculously never changes,” says this week’s podcast guest, Danny Aronson. “I found that to be untrue,” he says, which was the germ of his business idea. Aronson is the c…

For a human driver, Google maps may be good enough to find one’s way around. But for a self-driving car, officially known as an autonomous vehicle (AV), a lot more information is needed to safely navigate a complicated place like New York City. Brooklyn-based startup Carmera aims to solve that problem with its “street-intelligence platform,” a high…

When Andrew Walcott founded Fusion East, the beloved East New York restaurant that merges Caribbean and soul food, he was responding to a gap in his community. To get the kind of cuisine he wanted, he had to leave his neighborhood. “It just got tiring,” as Walcott describes the challenge of getting to upscale restaurants. He would drive to Downtown…

“The underserved community, the overserved community–we meet them where they live,” says TV journalist Brian Vines about the variety of people he meets on his beat: the borough of Brooklyn. He’s the host of BRIC TV’s Going In With Brian Vines, a magazine-style show that takes viewers into the streets to hear Brooklynites talk about such topics as g…

State Bags is a five-year-old company selling well-made, cool and classic bags, while using the power of business to make a statement about social justice. With every State purchase, one backpack filled with essential supplies is given to a local child in need. It follows the buy-one, give-one formula, but with its own powerful story. It starts wit…

From law to lobsters? It’s a career change unlike most, but it’s the one Susan Povich took in 2009, and it has proven to be wildly successful. Povich is the co-founder of Red Hook Lobster Pound, one of the first establishments to bring fresh Maine lobster direct to Brooklyn. Starting with a storefront restaurant in Red Hook, they’ve expanded to out…

There’s a reason Roberto Gil’s designs are known to fit effortlessly in any space, as if the simple birch plywood and pop of color were built for each customer’s personal home. Gil has a masters in architecture from Harvard, so he was thinking about rooms long before what to put in them. “I’m an architect for kids, not just a furniture designer,” t…

He pioneered the craft-beer revolution and helped turn Brooklyn into an icon