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This year's 27th Annual MetroTech Tree Lighting Ceremony reminds us what it truly means to be a Brooklynite during the holiday season. The event was hosted at the MetroTech Commons Thursday evening, sponsored by Forest City Ratner Companies.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo this week announced that $25 million in funding-- the third allocation of $100 million-- has been awarded to support pre-k programs in New York City, Yonkers, Port Chester, Watertown and Uniondale.

Cory and Rakim, representatives of Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions, one of the finalists for the Spark Prize This holiday season, do away with your images of greedy Scrooges and Grinches! While events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday are

IMPACCT Brooklyn announced this month the appointment of Bernell K. Grier as its executive director, succeeding the organization's current executive director, Deb Howard, who will retire at the end of 2016. Bernell K.

In the Brooklyn Nutcracker dancers not only arabesque and pirouette but also pop-lock!

Photo: Downtown Brooklyn Partnership Celebrate Brooklyn's 27 th annual tree lighting at MetroTech Commons, hosted by Forest City Ratner, with performances by the award-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus and appearance by Santa Claus and his live reindeer!

City Councilmember Laurie Cumbo launches "Fit in the 35th" by participating in free, a local Zumba class New York City Councilmember Laurie A.

Since 1995, the Noel Pointer Foundation has provided over 30,000 at-risk, inner-city school children with professional string music instruction, once-in-a-lifetime performance opportunities and school placement assistance.

In the age of the smart phone where anything you need-- driving directions, food, clothing or even a quick stroke of the ego from a social media "like"-- can be delivered to you same-day with a click, type or tap of your mobile device, real-life enga

Thanksgiving is here, and we all know what that means? Well, actually it means a plethora of things, with the most important being how the holiday is cruxed on the systematic murder, annihilation and exploitation of the American Indian, pretty much r