Brooklyn’s Main Street Comes To Wall Street
Thousands of workers and community activists marched to Wall Street on Thursday, bringing Main Street’s anger with bank bailouts to the doorstep of the country’s financial industry.
Archive | April, 2010
AriZona Iced Tea is Brooklyn-Born
Friday, April 30, 2010
AriZona Iced Tea have been compelled to disclose that their company was founded and operates in Brooklyn, New York. Protesters of the strict immigration law in Arizona have called to boycott the beverage maker, under [...]
Updated: Subway Terror Scare in Brooklyn
Friday, April 30, 2010
**We first connected you to the Associated Press about the subway terror scare, who broke the news, but the Daily News just published a thorough report on the suicidal/subway/cyanide incident. Turns out the suicidal college [...]
Choppers Cut Off in Brooklyn
Friday, April 30, 2010
PIX 11 News has learned the Economic Development Corporation will announce Friday that three of four flight patterns that rattled residents of Brooklyn Heights will be eliminated. The EDC’s plan calls for: Total Elimination of [...]
Alfred Palmer Home Up For Auction
Friday, April 30, 2010
The carriage house at 280 Hicks Street that was owned by Alfred Palmer is up for auction again on Tuesday at the Brooklyn Supreme Court with a starting big at $1.8 million, the Brooklyn Heights [...]
Two Teens Arrested for Beating Up Rabbi
Friday, April 30, 2010
The Jewish & World News reports that two Brooklyn Teenagers were arrested for roughing up a rabbi in Borough Park on Wednesday. Rabbi Mayer Gross of the Cheder School was beaten with a big containing [...]
GE to Provide Critical Backup Power for Brooklyn
Friday, April 30, 2010
GE Marine and Stationary, a unit of GE Transportation, announced today that the New York City Department of Environmental Protection has reached an agreement with Skanska USA to purchase three gensets to provide backup power [...]
Brooklyn Industries Moves from Navy Yard to DUMBO
Friday, April 30, 2010
Crains reports that Brooklyn Industries, a home-grown Brooklyn retailer, will be moving its production, finance, management, design, store design, buying and planning departments from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to to a new 11th-floor office space [...]
Bold Plans for Grand Army Plaza
Friday, April 30, 2010
The Department of Transportation announced “a pretty dramatic and bold, exciting plan” for Grand Army Plaza at a joint meeting with three Brooklyn community boards last night. After the presentation, DOT assistant commissioner Ryan Russo, [...]
Arab American Students Want Accurate Census
Friday, April 30, 2010
Feet In Two Worlds Blog posted a report today about Arab American students’ struggles for an accurate census reading of the Arab community. According to the 2000 Census, there were approximately 1.25 million people living [...]
The Brooklyn Lens Webcast
Friday, April 30, 2010
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