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Mix & Mingle At Therapy Wine Bar

The Therapy Wine Bar is having a Mix & Mingle tomorrow night Any establishment whose moniker includes wine, beer, cheese and chocolate, and calls itself Therapy Wine Bar is the BKReader's kind of watering hole.
Bed-Stuy Real Estate Market Burning Hot

Bed-Stuy Real Estate Market Burning Hot

This 6 bedroom, 3 bathroom townhouse at 96 Quincy Street sold for $2.25 million on June 18. Photo Courtesy of The Real Deal Real estate brokers in Bedford-Stuyvesant have been breaking sales records left and right this year, The Real Deal reports.
Atlantic Yards Re-Branded Pacific Park

Atlantic Yards Re-Branded Pacific Park

The view of Pacific Park from Dean St (Rendering via Curbed) The borough's largest planned development dubbed Atlantic Yards since 2003, and which includes the Barclays Center, was re-branded Pacific Park, as first reported by Curbed .

City's Fiscal Prudence Questioned

Call for New Governance of City's Pension Funds The city's growing pension costs could put a strain on finding money to pay for city services, reports the New York Times in a news analysis story.

New Food Co-op Planned For Bed-Stuy, North Crown Heights

Where in Central Brooklyn straddling Bedford-Stuyvesant and North Crown Heights would you like to see a new food co-op and what types of foods would you like to see being carried there? These were the types of questions organizers from the non-profit

Slave Theater Clash Continues

The former caretaker's son of Bedford-Stuyvesant's Slave Theater stalled the property's new owners from turning the historic site into apartments, reported the Brooklyn Eagle .
Re-Designing Brooklyn, Will's Way

Re-Designing Brooklyn, Will's Way

Builders far and wide have studied and lauded so many of the Brooklyn-based architectural geniuses of the 19 th Century, such as James W.

Real Talk: Would you Live in a Triangle?

995 Washington Ave A 1,000-square-foot triangular-shaped lot at 995 Washington Ave., located between Montgomery Street and Sullivan Place in Crown Heights, sold for $330,000 to a developer going by Washington Ave Dev LLC, according to DNAinfo .

Mandatory Sick Leave Law Takes Effect Today

(l to r) Carlo Scissura, president of Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce and Consumer Affairs Commissioner Julie Menin campaign outside the subway station at Barclays Center to inform residents about the Paid Sick Leave Law New York City's mandatory sick-l
Brook-Lens: Moshood Celebrates its 20th Year Anniversary

Brook-Lens: Moshood Celebrates its 20th Year Anniversary

Originally from Lagos, Nigeria, Moshood arrived in New York in the early 1980's to make his mark in fashion and design. After years of tireless effort and hard work he opened his boutique in Brooklyn, New York in 1994.