By: Malik Singleton
The police department has deployed two of its SkyWatch observation towers in the borough, and residents say they’re affecting more than the incidence of crime.The NYPD's pr...
By: Marilyn Gelber
If there’s one thing we can say for sure about Brooklyn, it’s that the last couple of decades have resulted in huge changes for the borough. Or at least that’s how it feels, right?True, we were a bit mystified...
By: Marilyn Gelber
If there’s one thing we can say for sure about Brooklyn, it’s that the last couple of decades have resulted in huge changes for the borough. Or at least that’s how it feels, right?True, we were a bit mystified...
By: Neil deMause
In December 2003, developer Bruce Ratner stood in the old Brooklyn council chambers at Borough Hall and presented a dream that, he promised, would remake the borough's future. T...
By: Jamila Pringle
Over the past 10 years, Brooklyn has been at the center of a major development spree in which Atlantic Yards was just one part. From Carroll Gardens to Greenpoint, Crown Heigh...
By: Neil deMause
Over the last few weeks, the massive steel structure rising at the corner of Atlantic and Flatbush began looking less like a construction site, and more like a basketball arena....
By: Darren Sands
Once upon a time, a developer envisioned a mixed-used real estate development designed to bring big business to downtown Brooklyn. By June 1987—Brownsville’s Pearl Washingto...
By: Candace Amos
Though the hardwood in the Barclays Center Arena should be sparkling in time for Brooklyn Nets opening day in September 2012, that is more than can be said for the rest of the A...
By: Julie Turkewitz
Inside a squat, unmarked red brick building in Sunset Park, it looks like fists are about to fly. Expletives, liquor bottles and two metal chairs soar across a mirrored room...
By: Chris Giblin
Slot machine players come out in the thousands to Genting's Resorts World New York casino at the Aqueduct racetrack every day. Individually, they each square off against one of...
By: Paul Bufano and An Phung
The storm was not supposed to happen. Instead of a leafy autumn in New York, with beautiful foliage shading children out for Halloween trick or treating, the city wa...
By: Aparna Narayana
Javaid Syed knows about the vicissitudes of business ownership. An immigrant from Pakistan, he transformed a small hotel business in upstate New York into Syed Enterprises In...
By: Jarrett Murphy
It's always been moving to see Brooklynites move. In a poem called "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," Walt Whitman could barely contain himself: "Crowds of men and women attired in th...
By: Daniel Prendergast
When Lakisha Rogers realized she and her daughter no longer had to live in a homeless shelter, she was ecstatic.Early last year the Brooklyn mom qualified for the city’s...
By: Catherine M. Abate
It’s one of parents’ biggest fears. A teenage son or daughter succumbs to peer pressure, making a life-altering decision simply to fit in with a group. Implicit in t...
By: David R. Jones
The Bronx is perhaps best known as the home of the New York Yankees. At their new $1.5 billion stadium, the Bronx Bombers, seven of whom are paid more than $10 million apiece...
By: Diane Jeantet
Three months ago, Ms Cruz's doctor warned her about the abnormal level of T-cells in her blood. They had reached such a low* level that the slender 46-year-old Bronx resident w...
By: Jarrett Murphy
If the last two elections are any guide, in 2013 just under 30 percent of the votes in the New York City mayoral race will come from Brooklyn—more than from any other boroug...
By: Jeanmarie Evelly
In the run-up to the 2008 presidential election, 46-year-old John Molina—a self-described "political process junkie”—went all out. He attended rallies, put an Obama bu...
By: Marisa Jahn and Marc Shavitz
Correction appended“Those are just like the ones they use at Whole Foods”, said Palma, pointing proudly to a pint-sized blackboard advertising two speckled n...
By: Sandra Svoboda
DETROIT - The moniker Hollywood means both the Los Angeles enclave as well as the film industry as a whole, and to label something as being on Wall Street refers to an address...
By: Ariella Cohen
NEW ORLEANS - It's 11 a.m. on a Monday and Bernice Horne is sweeping the front porch. Inside, her son fixes himself a fast lunch—he's on the clock— while her granddaughter...
By: Melanie Lefkowitz
On incoming commuter trains at rush hour, platforms are so crowded that swarms of passengers may spend more than 10 minutes merely shuffling off the platform. Long-distance...
By: Ali Winston
OAKLAND, Calif. - Around 1 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 8, Maria Teresa Ramirez was pushing a red plastic car with her 3-year-old son Carlos Fernandez Nava along International Boulevard...
By: Jarrett Murphy
Shortly after lunchtime on the day of the 2004 New Hampshire primary, Joe Lieberman's bus pulled up to an elementary school on the east side of Manchester. Waiting there for h...
By: Jada Dantzler and Diana Capellan
In a neighborhood full of culture, surrounded by the beauty of the Brooklyn Museum and the Botanic Garden, rests the central branch of the Brooklyn Publ...
By: Jasmeet Sidhu and Bianca Consunji
With additional reporting by Carl V. Lewis.The Bronx New School (P.S. 51) had seen its share of typical childhood illnesses during its 23-year history. But...
By: Jay Honstetter
There is a problem Greenpoint residents see every day, whether strolling down Manhattan Avenue to run errands, or sprinting to catch the next G train to work: homelessnes...
By: Chris Giblin
This weekend the last American troops left Iraq. But for Alaa Majeed the war isn't over."It gives me chills when my mother calls me or when I hear her voice," she says. "And whe...
By: Neil deMause
Downtown Brooklyn--Joe Chan had every reason to be confident. The former aide to deputy mayor Dan Doctoroff, newly installed in 2006 as head of the business-run Downtown Br...
By: Milesska Contreras
Two years after a City Hall plan to redevelop it collapsed over an argument about wage requirements, what is considered to be the world's largest armory sits vacant in the...
By: Neil deMause
Downtown Brooklyn--When the city approved an ambitious rezoning of downtown Brooklyn in 2004, Yaakov "Jack" Fuzailov didn't think it would negatively affect his barbershop...
By: Stacy Lipson
George, 52, a methadone patient from Brooklyn, remembers the time he noticed a police presence in a Starbucks near a methadone clinic on 8th Ave and 35th Street."I was waiting f...
By: Neil deMause
At one end of Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway there is a cultural hub consisting of a busy library, a beautiful botanical garden and a world-class museum. Walking distance from...
By: Neil deMause
Three years into the Great Recession, and the dramatic rise in unemployment that began in 2008 shows little sign of abating. While the unemployment rate has eased slightly in re...
By: Neil deMause
Three years into the Great Recession, and the dramatic rise in unemployment that began in 2008 shows little sign of abating. While the unemployment rate has eased slightly in re...
By: Charu Sudan Kasturi
Less than a month after she opened a Liberty Tax Service franchise on 164th Street and Broadway in January, Michelle Bodner was thinking of shutting it down. Washington H...
By: Helen Zelon
On December 7, the National Center for Education Statistics released the results of standardized testing in 21 of the nation's urban districts, called the Trial Urban District As...
By: Mark Dunlea
The farm bill is up for renewal in Congress next year, something that occurs once every five years. The biggest funding in the farm bill is for food stamps (SNAP), the country's...
By: Patrick Arden
Besty Idelfonso spent months sleeping on the floor of her mother's Bronx apartment. Homeless and on a regimen of antiretroviral drugs, she needed a stable place to stay. A soci...
By: Jake Mooney
38 Monroe Street, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, is a 13-story brick apartment building a block and a half from the Manhattan Bridge. It is part of the Knickerbocker Villag...
By: Jeanmarie Evelly
It's been a tough few months for New York City's finest.The NYPD has suffered a series of stunning blows to its reputation of late, from accusations of planted evidence in d...
By: Patrick Clark
This story was reported by Patrick Clark, Eliza Ronalds-Hannon and Matt Draper. An Phung and Susan Rohwer contributed. After initial publication, portions of this article were...
By: Charley Steward
Experts say the practices that lead to food contamination—storing it improperly and unsanitary habits–are on the rise in New York City meat markets. But even failing nume...
By: Ruth Ford
Axing hospital workers and closing pediatric clinics are never popular decisions to make. And when the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation hired Deloitte Consulting...
