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New York City's homeless population is the highest it has ever been since the Great Depression.

Whether you are a first-time parent-to-be or a parenting expert, pregnancy often throws up a million and one questions that we depend on online pregnancy resources to answer.

photo credit: The New York Times Nearing the completion of a much needed renovation, the Billie Holiday Theater , a Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood institution, is slated to open its doors again this May.

Janie Washington-Bennett (4th from right) with volunteers who are campaigning for signatures to turn Belmont Avenue in Brownsville to "Dwayne Pearl Washington Way.

photo credit: northeastdoulas.com You've probably heard of birth doulas, who assist women before and during birth, but a new trend hitting our area is the use of postpartum doulas.

Click here to view original web page at www.washingtonpost.com (iStock) First you go into a store and can't remember what you needed to buy. Then you miss an appointment. Maybe you can't find your keys.

photo credit: poematisnaturalis.org Mayor Bill de Blasio made a $1 million pledge for the funding of a long-awaited community center for Marcy Houses, according to a recent report by DNAinfo .

photo credit: babycenter.com Exercising during pregnancy lifts your spirits and prepares you for labor and childbirth, but it's important to be extra cautious during your workouts.

photo credit: Angus Osborn/Getty Images After a decade of exploding sales, the market for high-end brownstones in New York is slowing down, according to recent report of the Financial Times .

June Jordan and Gwendolyn Brooks Beginning in March during the 2017 National Black Writers Conference and again in April during National Poetry Month , The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College , will host two separate programs that pay