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Photo: Courtesy Cumbe If you haven't yet heard, the beloved Cumbe Center for African and Diaspora Dance in Fort Greene is moving! Yes, the building has been purchased and will become condos , and so the popular African dance studio has been forced to

Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray return to City Hall on Thursday February 6, 2014.

The authors of Single Man, Married Man outside a brownstone in Brooklyn.

Photo courtesy BRIC Join Brooklyn Independent Media on Wednesday, January 28, from 7:00pm - 9:00pm, for a live broadcast of their town hall entitled, Brooklyn for Sale: The Price of Gentrification.

1535 Bedford Avenue in Crown Heights Plans for a 133-unit mixed-use building in Crown Heights is in the works, according to a permit application filed with the city on Tuesday, reported The Real Deal .

U.S. Congressman Hakeem Jeffries On Thursday, January 29 at 6:30 p.m., Congressman Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) will deliver his second annual State of the District address at Long Island University's Paramount Theatre.

The Brooklyn Navy Yard , located in Wallabout Basin off the East River-- part of the neighborhood of Fort Greene/Clinton Hill-- was commissioned by the U.S. Navy in 1801 as a military complex that included a ship-building facility and naval hospital.

A view of Spencer Street, Tuesday morning after Storm Juno. The National Weather Service lifted the blizzard warning in New York City Tuesday morning and said 5.

Sheldon Silver, Photo: Paolo Mastrangelo "I am the speaker," said Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on Monday of his decision to step aside in his role, rather than step down. "I'm standing. And I'm going to be standing for a long time." But Gov.

Photo: Meat Market on Facebook The Brooklyn Reader just got wind of this, and we think it's incredible: Every Sunday, from 11:00am - 4:00pm, the vintage clothing haunt known as "Meat Market," located at 380 Tompkins Avenue between Jefferson & Put