Business & Innovation

FreshDirect co-founder and CEO Jason Ackerman and Deputy Brooklyn Borough President Diana Reyna (center) are joined by FoodKick staff as well as Brooklyn community partners for a ribbon cutting celebrating the launch of the new on-demand food busines

Cumberland Packing Corp. Cumberland Packing Corp, the maker of sugar-substitute Sweet'N Low and also Sugar in the Raw, will be closing up shop and leaving Brooklyn, reported The Wall Street Journal .

SPONSORED Abena Sidibe, a Crown Heights resident and teacher in Brownsville, said it was only a few years ago when her sisters would tease her about how she "loved to open her mail and pay bills.

The Bedford Armory The 120-year-old Bedford-Union Armory, located at 1579 Bedford Avenue in Crown Heights, officially is getting a new identity.

NYC Comptroller Scott M.

Monday morning, City Councilmember Robert Cornegy, Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson and members of the NYP were in Bedford-Stuyvesant to announce the launch of Project Safe Stop, a community partnership connecting small businesses of Bed-S

It's beginning to look alot like Christmas and the full-on shopping bonanza has set off like dynamite, which conversely, has also ignited the local shopping movement.

Small Business Saturday (or "Shop Small Saturday") is November 28, 2015, the Saturday following Thanksgiving, the day that has been dedicated to supporting the small businesses in your neighborhood.

Brooklynites: What are your greatest concerns as residents? Is it policing in your neighborhood? Is it a lack of small business development? Is it traffic and parking around Barclays Center? Or perhaps its the unabated rising rents.

According to an analysis of the City's economic performance in the third quarter of 2015 released Friday by New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer, the City's unemployment rate is down to 5.4 percent, the lowest rate since 2008.