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The BK Reader Holiday Gift Guide: Featured Local Business– Elma Blint

The BK Reader Holiday Gift Guide: Featured Local Business– Elma Blint

By Richard Burroughs Over the next few weeks leading up to Christmas, The Brooklyn Reader is encouraging readers to shop local! We have assembled a holiday gift guide with some fantastic suggestions for several unique, one-of-a-kind and often handmad

The BK Reader Holiday Gift Guide: Featured Local Business– Bed Vyne

By Richard Burroughs Over the next few weeks leading up to Christmas, The Brooklyn Reader is encouraging readers to shop local! We have assembled a holiday gift guide with some fantastic suggestions for several unique, one-of-a-kind and often handmad
The BK Reader Holiday Gift Guide: Featured Local Business– Martine's Dream

The BK Reader Holiday Gift Guide: Featured Local Business– Martine's Dream

By Richard Burroughs Over the next few weeks leading up to Christmas, The Brooklyn Reader is encouraging readers to shop local! We have assembled a holiday gift guide with some fantastic suggestions for several unique, one-of-a-kind and often handmad

Real Talk: More Housing Underway on Myrtle Ave!

A rendering of the Myrtle Avenue Pedestrian Plaza The Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership recently announced the construction of five new private development projects along Myrtle Avenue-- residential and mixed-use buildings that either are in develop

City Council to Vote Today on LinkNYC, Citywide Broadband Kiosks

The City Council will vote today whether to move forward with LinkNYC—a unique plan set forth by the mayor's office to expand free, high-speed broadband access to New Yorkers across the five boroughs by reinventing aging payphone infrastructure
The BK Reader Holiday Gift Guide: Featured Local Business– Owl And Thistle

The BK Reader Holiday Gift Guide: Featured Local Business– Owl And Thistle

By Richard Burroughs Over the next few weeks leading up to Christmas, The Brooklyn Reader is encouraging readers to shop local! We have assembled a holiday gift guide with some fantastic suggestions for several unique, one-of-a-kind and often handmad
Real Talk: City Gives Private Developers a Stake in 6 NYCHA Complexes

Real Talk: City Gives Private Developers a Stake in 6 NYCHA Complexes

The voracious appetite of private developers for more, more, more NYC housing stock is a given these days.
The BK Reader Holiday Gift Guide: Featured Local Business-- Teaféy

The BK Reader Holiday Gift Guide: Featured Local Business-- Teaféy

By Richard Burroughs Over the next few weeks leading up to Christmas, The Brooklyn Reader is encouraging readers to shop local! We have assembled a holiday gift guide with some fantastic suggestions for several unique, one-of-a-kind and often handmad
Miss Jessie’s: The Spark That Ignited a Natural Hair Movement

Miss Jessie’s: The Spark That Ignited a Natural Hair Movement

Miko Branch and Titi Branch, founders of Miss Jessie's When Miko Branch and her sister Titi Branch moved to Bedford-Stuyvesant from Flushing, Queens in the early 90s, they had no idea they were about to spark a movement.
Brownstone Living: A Complement to Your Busy Urban Lifestyle

Brownstone Living: A Complement to Your Busy Urban Lifestyle

Suffice to say that if you live in this concrete jungle known as New York City, you have a love-hate relationship with it. You love it for the obvious reasons. Of course.