In 1981, when Derek Pollitt first got the idea for a community garden in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, the plot was nothing more than a wasteland. After two buildings had caught fire and [...]
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
By La Toya Tooles The outside of Ms. Dahlia’s Café on the 440th block of Norstrand Ave in Brooklyn is a sign of changing times. There are wicker and metal benches nestled in the nook [...]
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
By Miranda Neubauer Brooklyn’s clout in the new U.S. Congress will be greatly diminished come January. Despite easy victories in November, the borough’s three most powerful congressional representatives will be removed from leadership posts in [...]
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
by Beth Morrissey Bodegas, nail salons, and fast food restaurants are not the typical trappings of a tourist destination. But Bedford-Stuyvesant’s Fulton Street now boasts a sleek, new “vacation home,” a short-term rental for out-of-towners. [...]
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
By Alex Gecan Bedlam erupted in a Kings County courtroom this afternoon, drowning out the last of three guilty verdicts against Jarelle Washington. Washington’s relatives and friends, some of them too hysterical to be understood, [...]
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Throughout most of Brooklyn, the housing market has rebounded from the slump that followed the economic collapse of 2008. While the number of new properties being sold in America is currently the lowest in recorded [...]
Friday, October 29, 2010
Matthew Tilden, owner of SCRATCHbread, a bakery in Bed-Stuy, is raising $10,000 through a Web site Kickstarter. Tilden hopes to use the funds to expand from a wholesale restaurant and grocery to a ground-level retail. [...]
Monday, October 25, 2010
The New York Daily News reports that 12-year-old boy was shot in the shoulder while walking home around midnight Sunday morning from a party. Police do not know who shot the boy or why he [...]
Monday, October 25, 2010
Police arrested Winston Cox, 19, in connection with Saturday’s shooting at a hair salon in Bedford-Stuyvesant, police say. Winston was wanted by police for the attempted murder of an off-duty officer involved in the shooting but [...]
Monday, October 18, 2010
A New York City Police Department commander and three officers are facing internal charges after being accused of manipulating crime stats, NY1 reports. The former commander of Brooklyn’s 81st Precinct, Deputy Inspector Steven Mauriello, is [...]
Saturday, August 27, 2011
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