NEW YORK — In 1989, after a white mob attacked and killed a black teenager in Brooklyn, the Rev. Al Sharpton led black demonstrators down street...
Jim Luce | Posted 09.23.2009 | New York
Bob Zuckerman does not want to wait for the economic stimulus package to drip down to Brooklyn's quickly emptying storefronts.
Alfred Gingold | Posted 09.21.2009 | New York
This is Brooklyn, where the weirdos are more than part of the passing parade; they live here.
Suzanne Grossman | Posted 09.21.2009 | Entertainment
Anytime I put myself into a new creative environment, the voices start appearing. You know the ones I'm talking about. They say you're not good enough, not creative enough, not talented, fun or smart enough
nytimes.com | ANAHAD O’CONNOR and COLIN MOYNIHAN | Posted 09.19.2009 | New York
A 42-year-old construction worker at a luxury apartment building in Brooklyn plunged four stories to his death Tuesday evening when he stepped onto a ...
Posted 09.18.2009 | New York
It's an "app" Andrei Melnikov doesn't want: his phone accidentally triggers his stove, turning it on whenever he gets a call. Melnikov's Sony Erickso...
Jon Chattman | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment
We spent a great deal of time deciding if we wanted to do the iPod commercial and now we're facing forward and making new music, not looking back.
Posted 09.18.2009 | New York
A man believed to be in his late teens or early 20s was seen masturbating on a southbound D train on the morning of July 30th, cops say. The New York...
Piers Fawkes | Posted 09.17.2009 | New York
Urban Rustic Locavore grocery shopping has come to Williamsburg with Urban Rustic, a food enthusiast's paradise, stocked only with products sourced fr...
Piers Fawkes | Posted 09.14.2009 | New York
Housed in an eco-renovated office building, this shared workspace is open to creative businesses and freelancers who share sustainability as a core value.
New York Daily News | Edgar Sandoval | Posted 09.14.2009 | New York
Waquas Mazhar, 19, won the New York Millionaire scratch-off game but will keep bunking with his siblings at his parents' Midwood, Brooklyn, house. "I...
The New York Observer | Irina Aleksander | Posted 09.12.2009 | New York
Nicole Ferejohn, 27, was paying $1,200 per month to rent a walk-up apartment on Avenue A and St. Marks about a year ago when she decided that it was t...
Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green
Beekeeping, despite the plethora of environmental benefits, is illegal in New York City. Plenty of great organizations, like Just Food, are working to...
AP | Beth J. Harpaz | Posted 09.11.2009 | New York
NEW YORK - Kids who live in the city learn their streetsmarts early. Not just, "Don't talk to strangers," but also, "Keep your hand on your wallet." ...
Clarence Haynes | Posted 09.11.2009 | New York
My suspicion: many women are thrilled by Prince because they readily see themselves in him, and vice versa, and the mutual love is visceral and real.
New York Times | ANNE BARNARD | Posted 09.10.2009 | New York
A few of the Trucked Out Divas -- Strawberry, Carmel and Black Beauty -- were waiting in front of their clubhouse, a former strip club in Brownsville ...
BrickUnderground | BrickUnderground | Posted 09.04.2009 | New York
The recent news that a Manhattan co-op spent $250,000 battling bed bugs made us wonder if buildings in some NYC neighborhoods were statistically more ...
David Weiner | Posted 09.04.2009 | New York
Some have long argued that Google is in the midst of taking over the world, but has the giant media company actually tapped into the otherworld? An...
Dan Cantor | Posted 08.30.2009 | New York
America finally has a community organizer in the White House. What if we put a whole slate of community organizers in City Hall in New York?
Tina Traster | Posted 08.23.2009 | Living
I was once mentally and physically asphyxiated by my long-held beliefs that the sticks were filled with people who stopped going to independent films and who ate dinner before 7.
Daniel Treiman | Posted 08.22.2009 | New York
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Coney Island rezoning plan, currently before the City Council, would irrevocably diminish the historic amusement district, blotting out its rich past and creating a blank canvas for redevelopment.
AP | Posted 08.18.2009 | New York
NEW YORK (AP) -- Some New Yorkers stuck in small apartments on a hot summer day have a new option: swimming in huge bins that once held trash. The i...
BrooklynCyclones.com | Posted 08.17.2009 | New York
For generations, it has been said that Brooklynites have been "born into baseball." This summer, that term may be more literal than ever before. On Su...
New York Times | ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS | Posted 08.15.2009 | New York
A criminal investigation has begun into the death of a patient on a waiting room floor at a city-run psychiatric hospital in Brooklyn last year, the B...
New York Daily News | Ben Chapman and Elizabeth Hays | Posted 08.15.2009 | New York
Heroin-addict hobos from around the country are overrunning hipster haven Williamsburg - living in stalled luxury condo projects in the trendy Brookly...
AP | SUZANNE MA | Posted 09.24.2009 | New York