`Taste NY’ Bar on Tap for Barclays Center
By UMMEY KARIM Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Barclays Center announced Thursday that a Taste NY bar will be set up at the arena to …[read more]
Brooklyn
For riders, transfers are key to new streetcar line
By REZA MALEK Mayor Bill de Blasio has given New Yorkers a bit more information regarding his proposed Brooklyn-Queens streetcar but has still not said …[read more]
A sense of style in Midwood
By BEVERLY ORTEGA As I walked down Avenue J in Midwood toward the Tznius Princess shop, the women around me were dressed a lot differently …[read more]
Nannies are Brooklyn’s bridge between cultures
By AMBER ALEXANDER Samantha Lee, a nanny from Dominica, remembers a time when one of her former employers overstepped her boundaries by trying to drop …[read more]
Mall Brings Change to Flatbush `Junction’
By DEJA SMITH In her youth, Gianna Mancini used to enjoy sledding in the municipal parking lot at the Junction in Brooklyn’s Flatbush section. It …[read more]
Heat’s on for Adams over Brooklyn development
Slideshow: Eric Adams is president of a borough that’s changing quickly. (Jherelle Benn) By JHERELLE BENN The president of Brooklyn began the morning in a …[read more]
In East New York church, a talk about the `nones’
By KECIAH BAILEY On a cold and windy Friday night in Brooklyn, about 140 18-to 35-year-olds piled into Christian Cultural Center’s young adult lecture hall …[read more]
A fixture of local culture moves on
By JHERELLE BENN Laverne Washington browses carefully through the aisles of a variety store located on Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn. He gazes at natural …[read more]
Canarsie clergy combat crime
By KECIAH BAILEY Following a brutal rape in Canarsie and several other reported rape attempts, the 69th Precinct Clergy Council announced stepped up efforts to …[read more]
At Brooklyn church, de Blasio unveils school plan
By KECIAH BAILEY Quoting from the Book of Psalms, Mayor Bill de Blasio delivered his plan for education reform to thousands of churchgoers at Christian …[read more]