The editor of The Brooklynite, a quarterly magazine of urban affairs and culture that made its debut in March 2005, was at the Brooklyn Blogfest. He told attendees that the magazine was folding because he just couldn’t make it work financially.

Needless to say, he looked very sad about the whole thing. And I am too. I liked the magazine a lot and cannot understand why a Brooklyn-specific magazine of this quality can’t seem to make it around here. I think you can get the last issue at Community Books. Here’s how they describe themselves:

Covering life, culture, and politics in the borough, the magazine
provides a lively, independent venue for top-notch journalism on the
issues facing Brooklynites of all stripes.

Already, the magazine has amassed a roster of contributors that
includes a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a noted former
congresswoman, a Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee champion, several
published authors, and reporters for New York’s leading daily
newspapers.