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...
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...
Use Shapr to Make The Right Connections
There’s likely one person in every subway car who can intro you to a new job opportunity, connect you to the perfect freelance gig or make a great addition to your team. But let’s...
How To Squander $20k – State Renewed Lease With Slumlord Despite Assemblywoman’s Indictment
BAY RIDGE — Three state agencies squandered more than $20,000 on unused district office space after extending the lease of a Fed-embattled lawmaker who had already resigned.
The New York State Assembly extended a two-year lease...
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...
DOT Bike Lane Proposal Would Add Bay Ridge’s First Protected Cycling Lanes
BAY RIDGE - A representative from the Department of Transportation presented Community Board 10 it’s plan for a series of safety upgrades to 7th Avenue between 67th Street and 79th Street on Monday night,...
ColoGuard: Connecting Brooklyn, Investing in Brooklyn
When founding, constructing, and growing a business—any kind of business—you need support from a range of sources, be they wholesalers, distributors, office management platforms, maintenance workers, and perhaps dozens more. In this day and...
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)....