The transformation of Union Avenue is one of several initiatives currently being pursued by local officials, non-profits and citizen activist groups to address the severe lack of open space in this historically park-poor community.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Rising property prices define who can stay in the new Williamsburg.
Monday, December 5, 2011
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 [...]
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
When St. Vincent’s Hospital, a private institution, in Manhattan closed its doors amid a citywide uproar in April 2010, medical technician Grace Fuller thought she and other qualified employees would quickly find new jobs. She was wrong.
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, [...]
Thursday, October 20, 2011
From the fire escape of Dave Mitchell's building, an industrial space on Dobbin Street now converted into residential lofts, you can look across a gray roofscape to the end of the block.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
What happens here is happening all over the country, as the number of impoverished Americans climbs and federal budgets are stretched to the breaking point.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Ana Dricdzic doesn’t want her neighborhood to change. The owner of Staropolski Meat Market & Deli, located on Manhattan Avenue — Greenpoint’s main commercial strip — Dricdzic holds forth on the ethnic character of her [...]
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Greenpoint residents spoke out last night against a proposed homeless shelter to be built in their neighborhood last night. At a town hall meeting at the Polish Slavic Center residents said the busing in of [...]
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 [...]
Thursday, January 12, 2012
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