Community gardeners, students and faculty gathered today on the spot of a 14-year-old community garden to protest a college’s decision to pave over two-thirds of the growing space to make room for parking spaces and [...]
Thursday, March 25, 2010
The prison-themed playground in Bed Stuy is no more, NY1 reports. City officials painted over the bars and sign that read “Jail.” Though the playground was a popular spot to play cops and robbers, residents [...]
Thursday, March 25, 2010
The first lady and her daughters dropped by yesterday for a visit, grabbed some lunch, went to the park. It was a lovely (cloudy) day in Brooklyn. Michelle Obama visited the newly opened Brooklyn Bridge [...]
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Don’t Pave Paradise Community members are gathering opposition to Brooklyn College’s plans to replace most of the 14-year-old Campus Road Community Garden, in Ditmas Park, with a parking lot. They’ve also started a petition, which [...]
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
You know if it’s an MTA announcement it can’t be good. Today the MTA told Brooklyn residents their much-loathed commute will get that much more difficult. By a vote of 11-2, the W line will [...]
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
The ground is broken on the Atlantic Yards building project, but not everyone’s come to terms. A mystery protestor had his say today, hacking into a sign on Flatbush Avenue and giving the proverbial middle finger [...]
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
After much debate, and no more than the usual Gawker-esque snarkiness, Fauxhemians has won out as the new nickname for hipsters. At 34 percent, there’s still room for debate over coffee or homemade beer in [...]
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Brooklyn grew by 102,000, while Manhattan’s population shrunk in 2008 to 2009 for the first time, according to census data released yesterday. Population experts — who are working overtime answering reporters’ calls these days — attribute [...]
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Carina Bernard, 18, of Bedford-Stuyvesant, was arrested Monday after allegedly slicing Shantayah Lewis, the Daily News reports. On Friday, Lewis, 17, and her cousin Shakeena Grant, 15, were attacked and stabbed by a girl who [...]
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
David G. Greenfield, the executive director of the Sephardic Community Federation, won the special election council seat today. Times News Online reports. Greenfield will succeed former City Councilman Simcha Felder in Bensonhurst, Borough Park, and [...]
Thursday, March 25, 2010
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