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]
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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]
Day Laborers Wait for Rescue From Low Wages and Abuse
[Photo: Ligia Guallpa speaking at meeting with day laborer/members of Bay Parkway Community Job Center.] By Rebeca Ibarra Despite the rain, the meeting began promptly …[read more]
Superheroes from All Walks of Life
By JOANIE MARTINEZ The Canyon of Heroes may be in Lower Manhattan but the so-called Military Island in Times Square was the venue Tuesday for …[read more]
Crooked Investment Guru Sent to Prison
BY MELISSA WALKER & CONNOR SYRACUSE The party is over for the charming Vero Beach bartender and former Manhattan investment advisor Glenn Schwarzkopf as he …[read more]
Council Panel Urges Local Autonomy for Hiking Minimum Wage
By PAOLO CREDMIDIS As fast food workers got set for a nationwide strike for higher wages on Thursday, a New York city Council Committee passed …[read more]
Ukraine: What would you do?
By ALEX ELLEFSON Having grown up in Soviet-occupied Ukraine, Brooklyn resident Olha Yarema-Wynar remembers that there were certain rules she had to follow in school. …[read more]
Lower Bail Denied to Accused Identity Thief
By TIFFANY THOMAS A request by the defense to decrease a $150,000 bail for a former Hart and Hale soup restaurant employee accused of stealing …[read more]