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Worlds Fair Nano - the Future Comes to Brooklyn

Worlds Fair Nano is a festival to make the future exciting and accessible, featuring a Technology Playground, Futurist Talks and Interactive Art Zone photo credit: Goldstar Worlds Fair Nano, a future festival that aims to inspire, entertain and celeb

City's 'Fair Fix' Tax Asks Wealthiest New Yorkers to Chip in to Fix MTA

De Blasio wants to immediately direct the 'Fair Fix' funds toward core MTA infrastructure improvements to reduce delays and disruptions photo credit: NYC.

New Documentary is 'Breaking Down the BQX,' the Gentrification Express

In the 'Gentrification Express: Breaking Down the BQX' filmmakers show how supporters advocating for the Brooklyn-Queens Connector are behind rapidly developing properties along the proposed route image credit: Village Voice The new documentary " Gen

NYPD ShotSpotter Program Expanding to Fort Greene

ShotSpotter is a technology that picks up on the sound of gunfire and alerts police to it photo credit: NYPD By the end of the summer, the NYPD is expanding its ShotSpotter program to Fort Greene and Washington Heights reports amny.com .

Technology in Brooklyn - Art and Design in Greenpoint

Greenpoint, the quiet 19th-century industrial waterfront neighborhood, has been undergoing changes, big changes. Greenpoint, perched at the northernmost tip of Brooklyn, has become an intersection of art, design and technology.

Employment Opportunities: Jobs in Brooklyn

Seeking employment? Here are five new job opportunities posted this week within just a few miles from where you live: Adidas Visual Merchandising Associate Leader - Fulton Street 559 job in Brooklyn, NY Company: Adidas Job Title: Visual Merchandising

Brooklyn Start-Ups Inspire Business Models Globally

The Brooklyn Navy Yard has become a model of the viability and positive impact of urban industrial development through the diversity of businesses and industries it hosts photo credit: The Business Journal The Brooklyn Navy Yard is moving into the sp
AgTech X-- an Urban Agricultural Co-Lab in Brooklyn

AgTech X-- an Urban Agricultural Co-Lab in Brooklyn

AgTech X distinguishes itself as a co-working space to develop business concepts and projects, and to educate about sustainability and new urban agricultural technologies AgTech X's tower garden.
Employment Opportunities: Jobs in Brooklyn

Employment Opportunities: Jobs in Brooklyn

Seeking employment? Here are five new job opportunities posted this week within just a few miles from where you live: IKEA IKEA is hiring Seasonal Food Co-workers job in Brooklyn, NY Company: IKEA Job Title: IKEA is hiring Seasonal Food Co-workers Jo
City Launches Access HRA Mobile App to Simplify Food Stamp Application

City Launches Access HRA Mobile App to Simplify Food Stamp Application

Access HRA Mobile app and website, self?service computers and scanners at HRA centers, and mobile document upload technology are part of a broader effort to improve service for clients photo credit: NY Times The city's Department of Social Services (