via New York Daily News
DUMBO Bags Shoppers
DUMBO'S got a brand new bag. The DUMBO Business Improvement District is handing out free reusable canvas bags to the neighborhood's 1,300 households.
Place: Brooklyn
School Budget Cuts Slice Deep
The word came down from on high. In late January, Mayor Bloomberg announce…
via Courier-Life Publications
Nails in the Economic Coffin
Manicurists are biting their nails over the current economic downturn. Spending at spas is down, according to customers and owners in Williamsburg – an indication some folks are cutting back on even the most ordinary of pampering.
via Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Coney Island's Changing Views
As residents, developers and the city duke it out over Coney Island’s fut…
via Bay News/Courier Life Publications
Sanitation Samaritan Helps Hungry
Unlike most great stories, this one begins in the trash. Tom Neve’s discovery of an escalating homeless population along his Brooklyn sanitation route was an image that he just couldn’t throw away. So he started a volunteer-run food pantry.
Easy as Un, Deux, Trois
Kindergarteners at Public School 58 tell their teacher "bonjour" when they…
via The Brooklyn Paper
Hospital Spurs Labor Pains
Dozens of women scheduled to give birth at Victory Memorial Hospital this h…
Multi-Media: Venice on the Gowanus
The battle to redevelop Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal has been going on since th…