The New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) launched a Neighborhood Slow Zone program this fall that reduces speed limits from 30 mph to 20 mph and adds safety measures, such as speed bumps, within a select area. The first and currently only existing Slow Zone in the city was created in the Claremont section of the Bronx in late November. Now several neighborhoods in Brooklyn are applying for their own Neighborhood Slow Zones, hoping to make their streets safer.
With less than a year to go before opening night, residents are worried about the traffic and parking problems that will come with the new arena.
The Internet continues to grow as a central tool in the community life of Brooklyn and other communities in the nation.
Weekday mornings Osmond Thorne takes commuters and children to school, but he is not driving a bus or subway train. He is behind the wheel of a 15-person commuter van. The vans are a cheap [...]
The Kimchi Taco Truck will be opening a permanent location later this month.
Prospect Heights offers a multicultural restaurant scene as dynamic as its arriving immigrants.
Washington Avenue, east one block to Classon Avenue, then east one more block to Franklin Avenue. The moving border of Prospect Heights unsettles Crown Heights residents, as realtors and landlords look to capitalize on development, and Brooklyn politicians respond.
The family of a 9-year-old girl from Brooklyn has spoken about the frightening bullying their daughter was supposedly a victim of, reported ABC 7. The girl has accused two male students of beating her and [...]
By Joseph Deaux Music from Branded Saloon funnels from the bar into Vanderbilt Avenue, where Chai Eun Hillmann died nearly two weeks ago. A giant moose head hangs above the kitchen window. There are Texas [...]
By Todd Stone At the intersection of Dean Street and 6th Avenue yesterday, a U-Haul truck was parked outside of what used to be Freddy’s, a legendary Prospect Heights bar that served its last round [...]
Monday, February 6, 2012
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