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The Bed-Stuy Gateway Business Improvement District (BID) is proud to announce its first-ever #ShopLocalNYC Pop Up event on Saturday, December 6, 2014 at the historic Restoration Plaza from 12:00pm -7:00pm.

Giving Tuesday just passed this week and though it might be a better idea to have it before America drops a kings ransom on "door buster" sales for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, it's still a wonderful example that the battery has not drained on peop

Within minutes of the decision by a grand jury not to indict NYPD Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the chokehold death of Staten Island father Eric Garner, The Brooklyn Reader hit the streets of Central Brooklyn to ask residents their opinion.

A Staten Island grand jury cleared NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo this afternoon in the chokehold death of Eric Garner , sources said.

A grand jury has convened and is expected to announce this week whether NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo will face criminal charges in the alleged chokehold death of Eric Garner, reported CNN .

Get ready and gather around Fort Greene/Clinton Hill residents, as this Saturday, the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership and the Fort Greene Park Conservancy will usher in the holidays with a tree lighting event in Fort Greene Park.

Uber strikes again.

Gov. Cuomo's administration will announce new rules today for reigning in over-aggressive debt collectors, the Daily News reports.

Protestors Ty Hogenas and Emilio Montes at the "HandsUpDon'tShoot protest rally in Union Square On Monday, December 1, at 12:00noon, hundreds of New Yorkers poured into Union Square during their lunch break to participate in the #HandsUpDontShoot ral

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.