Sixteen years ago Roberto Gill, the founder and owner of CASA Kids Design Company, moved from TriBeca to Brooklyn because his rent was too high. He discovered he was not alone. Brooklyn has become a [...]
Monday, November 28, 2011
Journalists are easily forgotten. May be, that is why in 1874, newspaper fraternity took title to 24 lots – room for 360 graves – on a hilltop at the Cypress Hills Cemetery, straddling the Brooklyn-Queens line. Read [...]
Monday, November 28, 2011
The City University’s Board of Trustees is voting today to increase its tuition. According to the plan, the cost for undergrads would be $6,330 a year at CUNY by 2015. In 2010, the cost of [...]
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
After police took down Zuccotti Park, protesters went on the offensive congregating in Foley Square before dawn, then marching through morning rush hour to a small park at Canal Street and Sixth Avenue. From there [...]
Monday, November 7, 2011
Jennilene Courtney, the co-owner of Little Andy’s Day Care Center in Canarsie, heard a loud boom at 8:20 a.m. Monday morning. It must have been an accident, she thought. She wasn’t expecting what she saw [...]
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Reporter Ravi Kumar went to Borough Hall Green Market at the intersection of Montague and Court St. The market has local food, fruits, flowers, and vegetables three days a week:Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Our reporters Ravi Kumar and Emily Judem spent 10 hours in Zuccotti Park on October 25 to get a sense of what the protesters do on a typical day.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Flannery Foster and Ray Gonzales, co-founders of Good Yoga. If a pair of strangers had not met on New Years Eve of 2009, Good Yoga would not exist in Greenpoint. That night, Flannery Foster, [...]
Sunday, October 16, 2011
A short video of the Occupy Brooklyn Protests on Saturday in Grand Army Plaza.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Our reporter Ravi Kumar caught up with Peter Dutro, a Brooklynite who helps manage finance at Occupy Wall Street. Peter Dutro, 36, of Brooklyn is one of the members of the finance committee at Occupy [...]
Monday, December 5, 2011
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