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By Richard Burroughs Over the next few weeks leading up to Christmas, The Brooklyn Reader is encouraging readers to shop local! We have assembled a holiday gift guide with some fantastic suggestions for several unique, one-of-a-kind and often handmad

The voracious appetite of private developers for more, more, more NYC housing stock is a given these days.

Barclays Center Mayor Bill de Blasio has been pushing hard to bring the 2016 Democratic National Convention to the Barclays Center, but the center will have to clean up its act first as it was learned recently by The New York Post , that the sports a

(l to r) Beverly Emmons, Shelby Ahern, Patricia DuBose of the Good Neighbors Project "There used to be a time when there was always someone at home whose identity was caregiver. That doesn't exist anymore," said Beverly Emmons of Fort Greene.

By Richard Burroughs Over the next few weeks leading up to Christmas, The Brooklyn Reader is encouraging readers to shop local! We have assembled a holiday gift guide with some fantastic suggestions for several unique, one-of-a-kind and often handmad

Photo: silive.com After a grand jury failed to indict the cop who killed Eric Garner, Gov.

1. Alternate side of the street parking is suspended on Monday, December 8 , in observance of Immaculate Conception. 2.

On Saturday afternoon, around 200 students from Brooklyn Technical High School in Fort Greene organized a rally around downtown Brooklyn in protest of the grand jury rulings in the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, reported NY1 News.

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Did you know that comedian, actor, screenwriter, producer and director Chris Rock grew up between the neighborhoods of Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn? Chris with Rosario Dawson in "Top Five" In fact Bed-Stuy was the setting for his po