Cherry blossom festival at Brooklyn Botanic Garden presents Japanese culture to thousands of visitors. (Photos: Sal Romano) By SAL ROMANO Over 70,000 fans of Japanese culture gathered this weekend at…
City cuts AIDS prevention money
By JERMECIA EDWARDS As HIV rates in a number of New York City neighborhoods continue to be as high as those in some developing countries, studies and advocacy organizations say…
Brooklyn DA Honors ‘Extraordinary Women’
By KATELYN HRUBY A robust force in the luxury design bubble that most of us can only dream of bursting, Massatre Ltd. is not the typical grassroots organization that comes…
Purchase of Meat Market by BC Causes Upset
BY TYESHA ALLEN Neighbors mourned the closing of the largest supermarket in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, after hearing that their neighborhood meat market will be no more. The property…
Traffic Lights Installed at Dangerous Corner
BY STEPHANIE RAMSARUP The installation of new traffic lights and speeding cameras in Remsen Village is causing a stir amongst its residents. Two hundred-fifty accidents were reported just in October…
Story of the corner store, as seen in City Limits
This report by Brooklyn News Service writer Kiran Sury appeared on the City Limits Brooklyn Bureau Web site. On the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Glenwood Road in Brooklyn, Mohamed…
Bed-Stuy, Do or Buy
By ROBERT GARCIA Mshari Whaley remembers what it was like. “I use to collect the crack bottles on the street, because I liked the colors as a kid,” said Whaley,…
Learning to live with the Barclays Center
By JERMECIA EDWARDS A few days after a Department of Environmental Protection inspector came to measure the noise level at Wayne Bailey’s loft on Dean Street, he complained about it…
Sandy still taking toll on Red Hook businesses
By DAVID BELTRAN Sitting on a black leather chair with her cat lying stretched across the floor by the fireplace, Triciann Botta waits for customers to arrive. But the only…
In Bensonhurst, Chinese and Italians again live side by side
By JAMILLE SUTTON Tim Law, a Hong Kong native and long-time resident of Bensonhurst, counsels Chinese immigrants who move to the once predominantly Italian-American Brooklyn neighborhood. He recalls a crippled,…