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Inside Brooklyn’s Creative Hub, and the Passions it Supports

The Anarchivists: Who Owns the Occupy Wall Street Narrative?

On Nov 15, NYPD officers raided Zuccotti Park, and the Occupy Wall Street movement lost its space. Now groups and institutions—including the Smithsonian’s Natural Museum of American History, NYU’s Tamiment Library and the New York Historical Society– are working to enshrine the movement in the form of an archive.

But who, in the end, will get to tell the definitive story?

Qaddafi Eulogized in Bed-Stuy

Late Libyan dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi was remembered in Bed-Stuy on Thursday night, at a memorial service organized by the December 12th movement.

Love: City Clerk’s Office Style

Every day people wake up and decide to get married. For some, that means a trip to Brooklyn’s City Clerk at Borough Hall. Mary Plummer, Joseph Alexiou and Todd Stone report on love inside a government building.

Video – Pessach at the Appelbaums’

Christians are prepping for Easter this weekend: chocolate and eggs are on the shopping lists. Jews are already celebrating Passover, the holiday that commemorated the Jews’ flight from Egypt. The preparations of this holiday are [...]

“Kina Gecesi” Henna Night in Brooklyn

By Amanda Massa and Mustafa Mehdi Vural Marriage can bring a smile to many people’s faces, but sometimes it brings tears.  In the Turkish culture, the traditional henna night — which is performed just days [...]

A Match Made in Midwood

With phones literally ringing off the hook, BlackBerry abuzz, it’s a typically hectic day for Levy, a matchmaker, or shadchan, in the Orthodox Jewish community in Midwood.

After the Fire: The Long Journey Home

Luisa left the funeral home last Thursday on a Friday flight out of John F. Kennedy
Airport to her home country, Guatemala

Video – ‘Til death do us part

By Althea A. Fung, Danielle Bengsch and K. S. Nikhil Kumar Canarsie couple Elliot and Hunny Reiken have been married for 61 years. The couple met in the Catskill Mountains when Elliot and his twin [...]