Business & Innovation

A new class-action lawsuit filed on Wednesday in state Supreme Court in Manhattan challenges New York City's property tax system, with plaintiffs arguing that blacks and Hispanic renters pay higher taxes than some owners, The Wall Street Journal repo

City Councilmember Robert Cornegy The City Council voted Wednesday 46-5 to pass The Earned Sick Time Expansion Bill, a paid sick leave bill expanded to include businesses with between five and 19 employees.

Participating in the Latin Music Conference (clockwise) is J-Alva, Lozoneros, El Muchelo, Danny Lugo and many more WHAT: The 2014 Latin Networking Conference: Local press and the Latin music industry's top talent scouts and A&R should all be out

Junior's Restaurant in Brooklyn The owners of Junior's Restaurant, an iconic cheesecake bakery located on the corner of Flatbush and Dekalb avenues in Brooklyn, have sold its building to make way for high-rise condos, reported The Daily News .

Entrepreneurs!!! Join Pratt Area Community Council for another Rolling Up the Gates Storefront Stroll, and view vacant storefronts for your business! These spaces are located in Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and Bed-Stuy along a busy commercial strip.

Maria Sigourney, Marie Clevering and Jessica Alonso, outside the storefront which will be transformed into The Stomping Ground What do you get when you put about a dozen new mothers and their energetic babies into a space the size of a hair salon? Mo

Janine Hausif, founder and CEO of "Around The Way" app When Bed-Stuy resident Janine Hausif moved from Maryland to New York City in 2007 to pursue a career in modeling, she never imagined that seven years later, she'd be teaching master classes and a

The Brooklyn Cooperative Federal Credit Unio n is seeking to fill a position of Part-time Member Services Representative Organization Description Brooklyn Cooperative Federal Credit Union is a not-for-profit, member-owned financial institution with m

(l to r): Ras Levi, partner; Stefan Fahrer, owner; and caterer Mark Fahrer For the past six months, residents who walk or drive past, no doubt, have noticed it: the construction of what looked to become a swanky new café on Dekalb Ave.

Nonprofit developer CAMBA recently announced plans to tear down the psychiatric ward at Kings County Hospital and replace it with CAMBA Gardens II, an affordable housing complex, reported CrownHeights.info .