When Nancy Cogen opened a batik store on Atlantic Avenue’s antique row in Boerum Hill 41 years ago, it was a neighborhood of run-down rooming houses and communes, where a brownstone cost $25,000. The ...

Communal living surged in the 1960s and ‘70s as part of the hippie movement. Today, Gen Z and millennials are increasingly turning to co-buying homes with friends or family—not for countercultural ...

A lot of hippie movies about the 1960s have hit the silver screen, but these three films remain some of the most memorable.

The summer of 1967 saw a surge in protests and the rise of the hippie movement. Frustration with the Vietnam War fueled social and political discontent. The Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco ...

If you're into counterculture kitsch, you might want to check out the nostalgia-themed resort hotel at Walt Disney World in Florida. It features a "Hippy Dippy" swimming pool, surrounded by ...

The Summer of Love didn’t just happen in a vacuum nearly 60 years ago. It wasn’t a kind of spontaneous combustion that created the hippie movement and the peace and love ethos of the ‘60s generation. ...