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Brooklyn Bridge Park The city's plan to put below-market-rate apartments in Brooklyn Bridge Park will face off in court today with a group of neighborhood residents who want to limit housing in the park along the waterfront, The Wall Street Journal r

On Saturday, July 12, Healthfirst, in collaboration with Carib News, the Bedford-Stuyvesant Family Health Center and Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, held a town hall breakfast meeting and health fair at Restoration Plaza.

Tia Powell Harris, executive director at Weeksville Heritage Center Hailing from Washington, DC, Tia Powell Harris is the executive director of Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn's largest African-American cultural institution, located at 1698 Berg

Marcy Plaza Farmers Market Opening Day, July 16, 2014 Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, the Brooklyn Rescue Mission and the NYC Food and Fitness Partnership on Wednesday joined with community leaders and funding partner EmblemHealth to cele

Mayor Bill de Blasio visits I.S. 318 on Monday Photo: Diana Robinson/Mayoral Photography Office Mayor Bill de Blasio paid a visit on Monday to I.S.

At a rehearsal for the Noel Pointer Foundation Photo: Jada Martin-Capers By guest contributor Jada Martin-Capers, Age 14 I've attended the Noel Pointer Foundation, where Chinita Pointer introduced me to different kinds of music.

Sugar Babies, Kara Walker "A Subtlety" Exhibit Recently, I visited the Kara Walker "A Subtlety" exhibit on sugar at the Domino Sugar Factory in Willamsburg, Brooklyn and while absolutely breathtaking, it also reminded me of my life commitment towards

Paid Sick Leave advocates and activists were out at over 150 subway stations across the city early this morning on a flyer campaigning to remind employees of their rights granted in the new Paid Sick Leave bill that goes into effect on July 30.

NYPD Around 6:30 p.m. on Monday, 88th Pct. police executed a search warrant at Lockaway Self Storage at 1 Carlton Ave. in Fort Greene, where they found four loaded firearms, 14 ATVs and dirt bikes, reported police.

Mayor Bill de Blasio Thursday signed into law a municipal ID program intended to provide legal documentation for residents regardless of immigration status, though many of the card's details are still being hammered out.