Sidebar: What is `affordable’ housing?
Twenty percent of the apartments in the luxury high-rise tower going up at 626 Flatbush Ave. will be deemed affordable. But the measure used to …[read more]
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Brooklyn BP challenged over real estate ties
By MARCO POGGIO It had rained unceasingly for a few hours, but that did not prevent more than 400 residents from showing up in …[read more]
Art and a touch of madness in Bushwick
By KATHERINE LLOYD The rumbling of the elevated J train echoes along Brooklyn’s Broadway in the neighborhood where Bedford-Stuyvesant meets Bushwick. A few blocks over …[read more]
Subway trash: an odyssey
By MOSHE BERMAN Tatiana Spencer was in high school when she was waiting with her friends for the E train at the 71st-Continental Avenue subway …[read more]
On Flatbush Avenue, stores close as rents rise
By ALVARO BLANCO In the back of a struggling eyeglasses store on Flatbush Avenue, Edgar Henry made call after call as he tried to keep …[read more]
When you have to go home again
By CHRISTOPHER TUCCILLO It’s 8 p.m. on a Sunday night, and the neighborhood of Middle Village in Queens is fairly quiet. Sitting in his bedroom …[read more]
CUNY Dreamers hold fast to their hopes
By GABRIEL PARIENTE Monica Sibri sits in the middle of the brown rectangular table with her Macbook Pro to her left and cell phone to …[read more]
Balancing college and diabetes
By LOVASHNI KHALKIAPRASAD For most of his childhood, Aanas Mohamed played basketball, a sport he would give up anything to play. He was the most …[read more]
Hate crimes mount in city amid Middle East unrest
By INEZ SHARABY It was a breezy fall night in September when 20-year-old Lorraine Dana was walking to her older sister’s house, ready to enjoy …[read more]
Queens Activists Warn of Gentrification
BY SINDY NANCLARES Tenants, community leaders and immigration activists called on Tuesday to reform and strengthen rent regulation laws to help low-income families and stem …[read more]