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, …[read more]
Brooklyn
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 …[read more]
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 …[read more]
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]
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]
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 …[read more]
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 …[read more]
For business, it’s survival of the fittest after Barclays Center opens
By KRYSTYNA CHICHURA It’s 10 o’clock in the morning and the local businesses in the Atlantic Yards area are just starting to open the doors …[read more]