<P> Brooklyn Magazine is one of the few glossy magazines about Brooklyn . Several others, that are now defunct, include: BKLYN Magazine (a bimonthly lifestyle book owned by Joseph McCarthy, that saw itself as a vehicle for high - end advertisers in Manhattan and was mailed to 80,000 high - income households), Brooklyn Bridge Magazine, The Brooklynite (a free, glossy quarterly edited by Daniel Treiman), and NRG (edited by Gail Johnson and originally marketed as a local periodical for Clinton Hill and Fort Greene, but expanded in scope to become the self - proclaimed "Pulse of Brooklyn" and then the "Pulse of New York"). </P> <P> Brooklyn has a thriving ethnic press . El Diario La Prensa, the largest and oldest Spanish - language daily newspaper in the United States, maintains its corporate headquarters at 1 MetroTech Center in downtown Brooklyn . Major ethnic publications include the Brooklyn - Queens Catholic paper The Tablet, Hamodia, an Orthodox Jewish daily and The Jewish Press, an Orthodox Jewish weekly . Many nationally distributed ethnic newspapers are based in Brooklyn . Over 60 ethnic groups, writing in 42 languages, publish some 300 non-English language magazines and newspapers in New York City . Among them the quarterly "L'Idea", a bilingual magazine printed in Italian and English since 1974 . In addition, many newspapers published abroad, such as The Daily Gleaner and The Star of Jamaica, are available in Brooklyn . Our Time Press published weekly by DBG Media covers the Village of Brooklyn with a motto of "The Local paper with the Global View". </P> <P> The City of New York has an official television station, run by the NYC Media Group, which features programming based in Brooklyn . Brooklyn Community Access Television is the borough's public access channel . </P> <Ul> <Li> The annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade (mid-to - late June) is a costume - and - float parade . </Li> <Li> Coney Island also hosts the annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest (July 4). </Li> <Li> The annual Labor Day Carnival (also known as the Labor Day Parade or West Indian Day Parade) takes place along Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights . </Li> <Li> The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival runs annually around the second week of June . </Li> </Ul>

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