Tag Archive | "economy"

Boom in Brooklyn home sales

Thursday, April 15, 2010

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Home sales in Brooklyn were up 57 % in the first quarter compared to last year, according to a report out today. However, property values in the borough are down 14% from their peak in 2007. Share

The Brooklyn Inkonomic Report

Friday, April 2, 2010

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The ultimate look at the Brooklyn economy, courtesy of the whole Ink team.

Economy Adds Most Jobs in Three Years

Friday, April 2, 2010

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The economy added 162, 000 jobs in March, the most in three years. Since the start of the recession, the US has lost 8 mllion jobs in total. The jobless rate though remained unchanged at 9,7%. Look out for the Brooklyn Ink’s detailed coverage of the situation in Kings County. Read more  about the national outlook [...]

Loan Shark Slain… and Mourned

Thursday, October 15, 2009

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Otis "Junior" Edmonds was a man of exacting routines. Every morning he rose at 5, walked out of his house, went to the Classon Grocery on the corner of Prospect Place, bought his newspaper and his scratch-off lottery tickets, got in his car and read the newspaper before heading to work. Except for yesterday when Edmond, 63, was shot in the head as sat behind the wheel of his burgundy Mazda 626, reading his paper.

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