How Hungryroot Helps New York’s Busy Creatives Eat Healthy
Surviving in New York isn’t easy, especially if you have a career in the arts. Emily Cordes, a 32-year-old resident of Ditmas Park and an actress, can attest to this. Along with auditioning and...
Spend Your Summer in Brooklyn with FIT
The Fashion Institute of Technology is perhaps best known as a school for aspiring fashion creatives and entrepreneurs, with a campus located in the heart of Manhattan’s fashion district. But FIT offers so much...
Remains Of A Human Body Found Near Verrazzano Bridge
DYKER HEIGHTS - A person's remains were found on the Brooklyn Side near the Verrazzano Bridge over the weekend.
On Saturday, April 27, cops were called to Fort Hill Place and Dahlgren Place where they...
Gounardes Calls For Verrazzano Discount for Brooklyn Residents
BAY RIDGE — State Sen. Andrew Gounardes is calling for Brooklyn to get their fair share in toll discounts, especially as it relates to the Verrazzano Bridge.
The freshman senator introduced bill SS490 calling for residents...
Busy Parents, Let Hungryroot Be Your Healthy Food Concierge
As a parent of two young kids, I’ve got limited time – and energy – for shopping and cooking. So I’m always on the lookout for ways to make getting those things done a...
Brannan Calls For Immediate Action On Illegal Home Conversions
DYKER HEIGHTS — Lawmakers demand the Department of Buildings investigates illegally converted homes which they say the agency has repeatedly ignored.
Congressman Max Rose, State Sen. Andrew Gournardes and Assemblywoman Mathylde Frontus signed on to a letter from...
One Vote for One Book, One New York
The Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment and BuzzFeed have launched One Book, One New York - where New Yorkers get to pick the ONE BOOK they all want to read together.
VOTE here for one...
Crossing Verrazzano? It’s $5.50 if you are from SI, but $19 if you live...
BAY RIDGE — Hours before the proposed MTA toll hike, Gov. Andrew Cuomo found $6 million to ensure Staten Islanders maintain the $5.50 special residence rate to cross the Verrazzano-Narrows bridge, leaving their Brooklyn neighbors...
PJ Masks Live Heads Into Brooklyn To Save The Day This Weekend
SPONSORED: Weekend in the city, and a brave band of heroes is ready to face fiendish villains to stop them messing with your (Satur/Sun)day.
If that slightly altered bit of narration sounds familiar, you probably...
Brannan Introduces Legislation To Create Department of Animal Welfare
BAY RIDGE — On Monday afternoon City Councilman Justin Brannan tweeted a skunk sighting. "Skunk amok in #Bay Ridge? I'm here for it," the tweet read. Now Brooklyn's favorite vegetarian lawmaker is turning his animal...
EXCLUSIVE: Friends Of NRA To Hold Fundraiser In Brooklyn
BOROUGH PARK/BENSONHURST — It's fundraising time for the NRA, and they're making their usual rounds—among them, Southern Brooklyn.
Signs posted outside of a Brooklyn eatery show the fundraising arm of the NRA (National Rifle Associaton) Foundation...
Industry City Maker Spotlight: Rich Brilliant Willing
SPONSORED: “We believe in the power of light to create atmosphere, that light has a profound influence on shaping the way we feel.”
That’s how Theo Richardson describes the guiding principle behind the work of...
Tensions Run High Over Proposed Middle School in District 20
BAY RIDGE - About 50 residents of Community Board 10 (CB10) gathered last night at Bay Ridge’s PS 264 auditorium for a presentation of a middle school to be built in school District 20 (D20)....
FIT Makes the Brooklyn Army Terminal a Fabulous Spot For Learning
The Brooklyn Army Terminal is officially fabulous.
This spring, the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York’s famed school for aspiring fashion-industry workers and entrepreneurs, is offering seven dynamic courses at the Brooklyn Army Terminal that...
Fearing Federal Funding Cuts, City Focuses On Counting All Brooklynites In The 2020 Census
BROOKLYN — Five Brooklyn neighborhoods lead the nation in underreported census tracts in 2010, and New York City officials hope they can convince all residents regardless of their status to be counted next year. At stake are...