NYC First Lady Boosts Hochul’s Bid for Lt. Gov
By SAMAIRAH KHAN The first lady of New York City showed her support for Governor Cuomo’s choice of lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul, in a Brooklyn …[read more]
Grade Pending on Restaurant Grades
By MARCO POGGIO Inside a little deli in the little Indian and Bengali enclave of Curry Hill, a Manhattan neighborhood in the East 20’s and …[read more]
Sergei Nabatov: Teaching the Ballroom Dance Moves
By KACIAH BAILEY The theme song “Moving On Up” from the Jefferson’s blares through the speakers and resonates throughout the dance studio in the Brooklyn …[read more]
Is cricket taking Brooklyn and Queens?
By LOVASHNI KHALIKAPRASAD Cricket, which was first played in New York City in 1844, has now become a growing sport here. As immigrants from the …[read more]
On one block in Brownsville, 3 churches offer refuge
By TIFFANY THOMAS Pushing a shopping cart filled with loads of laundry below the No. 3 elevated train tracks in Brooklyn’s Brownsville section, Anastacia Stanley …[read more]
Stopping landlord harassment in gentrifying Brooklyn
By IAN MARSH Marcia McLean, a health care professional who lived with her extended family in the same Crown Heights apartment for nearly 30 years, …[read more]
In changing LIC, stores struggle to keep up
By INGRID CURTIS Clara Robles is glad that in the new Long Island City, customers still come to the old drugstore where she works. Vernon …[read more]
Brooklyn’s Little Pakistan grows; young adults stay
By FARAZ T. TOOR Two girls of Pakistani descent walk into Raheela Beauty Parlor at 1117 Coney Island Ave. They’re teenagers, and are dressed differently …[read more]
Shakespeare & Co. Closes The Door In Brooklyn
Empty bookshelves line the walls at Shakespeare & Co.’s store on Hillel Place and Campus Road. The long-time bookseller found it’s impossible to compete with …[read more]
Dining With Tablets
Technology will change the way you dine at your favorite Applebees. The restaurant chain plans to add 100,000 tablets for customers to use when they …[read more]