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The state Economic Development Corporation held a directors’ and public meeting Thursday after releasing its Community Engagement Report, which highlighted residents’ calls for affordable housing and street and traffic-calming measures in the next phase of Atlantic Yards.

For the award-winning poet, who will be honored at the National Black Writers Conference at Medgar Evers College next week, language is not just a means of expression but a way to repair, to listen and to reconnect in a culture that often feels fragmented.

Residents of the Columbia Street Waterfront District say the city's plan to add several 30- to 40-story residential buildings to a transit desert in a flood zone is bad urban planning.

Before developers can move forward with Gowanus Green, a major mixed-use development project, the state is overseeing the clean-up of 459 Smith St. by a group led by National Grid. Nearby residents are not convinced that the current plan is working.

After the Brooklyn-based museum denied voluntary recognition, Transit Museum workers are moving forward with a formal union election process.

When an opportunity arose to open their own studio, the founders moved quickly.

From visual to performance art, Brooklyn artists showcase their talent in front of a live audience at the Governors Island Ice Sculpture Show.

Mamadou Mouctar Diallo, an immigrant from Guinea, was settling in as a student at Brooklyn Frontiers High School when he was detained by federal immigration officials in August.

Brooklyn FC men’s soccer team notched a 1-0 win against Indy Eleven in their inaugural home opener at Coney Island’s Maimonides Park on Sunday.

Many Brooklyn residents said they were not surprised by the U.S.- Israeli attack on Iran, but some felt anxiety over possible retaliation on U.S. soil, while others were critical of Washington’s focus on foreign policy when U.S. citizens were facing an affordability crisis.