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Cultivating Healthy Lifestyles: Owner of Brooklyns Natty Garden Opens Natural Food Store

Glenroy Mahfood has spent over a decade growing and selling plants to folks in Brooklyn and beyond

Feb 8, 2021 2:38 PM Read more >

Plans for Luxury Bushwick Development Are Illegal, Neighbors Find

At a community meeting on a 20-story luxury development in Bushwick Thursday, residents and electeds revealed they've found a way to stall developers

Feb 8, 2021 11:37 AM Read more >

Feb 7: Brooklyn Black History Maker, Big Daddy Kane

About.com ranked the Grammy Award-winning artist #3 on its list of the "Top 50 MCs of Our Time."

Feb 7, 2021 9:30 AM Read more >

The Week in Crime: Spotlight on Bed-Stuy

Overall, crime is down in Bed-Stuy, and in Brooklyn as a whole.

Feb 5, 2021 3:31 PM Read more >

227 Abolitionist Place: The Long Struggle to Landmark the BK House Linked to the Underground Railroad

Saving the historic house from demolition was also part of a larger struggle against gentrification, and activists are now calling for the site to be turned into a heritage center

Feb 5, 2021 12:43 PM Read more >

Brooklyn Victims Applaud Repeal of 'Dehumanizing' Loitering Law

The legislation became known as the 'Walking While Trans' law, because it allowed the NYPD to arrest women arbitrarily based on their appearance and charge them with 'engaging in prostitution'

Feb 5, 2021 10:32 AM Read more >

Brownsvilles Betsy Head Park Open to the Public After $30M Upgrade

The revitalized park includes a new skate park, Parkour fitness course, inclusionary basketball court and remodeled green space

Feb 4, 2021 2:54 PM Read more >

All Love Pop-Up Market Spreading Love This Valentine's Day and Black History Month

All Love Mkt will be held this Sunday celebrating love and the local Black creators spreading it

Feb 4, 2021 11:14 AM Read more >

North Americas Largest Fast Charging Depot for Electric Vehicles to Be Built in Brooklyn

Revel will build Brooklyns first fast charging superhub at the former Pfizer Building site

Feb 3, 2021 2:17 PM Read more >

Month-Long Series Celebrates Black Artistry in Fort Greene, Clinton Hill

The 2021 Myrtle Black Artstory Month is centered on the theme, 'Love, this time'

Feb 3, 2021 12:08 PM Read more >