The big squeeze: Bloomberg’s micro-apartments
This article by Brooklyn News Service staff writer Ryan Sit first appeared on GothamGazette.com on Jan. 21. Nicole Guzzardi’s first experience living in Manhattan was, …[read more]
Month: January 2013
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 …[read more]
Behind the Run on Gas After Sandy
BY LAURIE CHERENFANT It’s been two and a half months since Hurricane Sandy visited the East Coast. After the storm, many people struggled to put …[read more]
Staff Struggles After Sandy Hits L.I. Yacht Club
BY GIANNA GELOSI Nearly two months after Hurricane Sandy pummeled the waterfront neighborhood of Babylon Village, much of the area has recovered. But the employees …[read more]
Williamsburg Hosts Interactive Learning Center
BY ALEXANDER HAJJAR The battle to conserve energy took a step forward when El Puente’s Green Light District hosted the Community Environmental Center’s (CEC) EcoHouse …[read more]
Queens Movie Theater Carries On
By SARAH MEIRA ROSENBERG The projected demise of the independent movie theater has been greatly exaggerated in the case of Flushing’s Main Street Cinemas. The …[read more]
Gerritsen Beach Struggles Past Sandy
BY LORETTA CHIN When Hurricane Sandy tore through sections of the northeast on the night of October 29th, few were prepared for the triple whammy …[read more]
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 …[read more]
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 …[read more]
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 …[read more]