Atheist Billboard Enrages Jewish Community
On the evening of March 7, the Jewish community in Brooklyn celebrated the start of Purim, a holiday commemorating the salvation of the Jews from destruction at the hands of a Persian ruler named [...]
Tag Archive | "Flatbush"
Overcrowding in Elementary Schools Becoming a Greater Concern in Brooklyn
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Flatbush, Midwood and eastern Kensington are facing an important issue: overcrowding in elementary schools.
Competing Arguments Made in Flatbush Stabbing Trial
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Competing arguments were furious today as the jury prepared to deliberate the verdict for a Florida man accused of brutally stabbing his victim to death at a Flatbush intersection.
Dispute Over Flatbush Vacant Lot Shrouded in Legal Ambiguity
Thursday, December 1, 2011
The company interested in purchasing the lot at 480 Stratford Road, 10 Stratford Associates, is seeking approval for a legal maneuver allowing it to erect a seven-story building among the decades-old Victorians, setting up a fight with the residents of District 14, who insist such a building would violate a rezoning law passed in 2009.
A Rising Tide of Sephardic Jews Brings Change to the Yeshivah of Flatbush
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
The venerable day-school, once overwhelmingly Ashkenazi, adapts to match the neighborhood’s transformation
The Little Street That Could
Thursday, February 3, 2011
By Idil Abshir Cortelyou Road feels so self-contained that at times it resembles a small town. Like a residential Russian doll, Cortelyou Road has become a neighborhood within the broader neighborhood of Flatbush. A seven-block [...]
Paying Up: Why Landlords Get Away With Mounds of Housing Violations
Thursday, December 16, 2010
By Richard Nieva John Gillick is engaged to be married. When asked if he would stay at his apartment in the Flatbush Gardens complex in East Flatbush after the big July wedding, his initial response [...]
80 Years of Meat
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
By Vegas Tenold Savarese, the last in his family’s line of butchers, barely has time to explain that the shop has been in his family for 80 years, before he ducks into the storage room [...]
State Seizes Vox Pop, but not its Spirit
Thursday, October 7, 2010
By Richard Nieva Like most businesses, the Vox Pop café in Flatbush stayed closed last Thanksgiving. Its mostly young staff was able to spend the day with their families. But for many of the café’s regulars, the day off was more like a day with nowhere to go.
Video – Dead Horse Bay, A Living Museum Of Trash
Monday, April 19, 2010
In the 1950s, a cap on a landfill burst, sending trash flowing onto Dead Horse Bay. Trash, both old and new, has continued to cascade onto the sands of Dead Horse Bay ever since.
The Brooklyn Lens Webcast
Thursday, March 8, 2012
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