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A rendering of the Myrtle Avenue Pedestrian Plaza The Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership recently announced the construction of five new private development projects along Myrtle Avenue-- residential and mixed-use buildings that either are in develop

770 Eastern Parkway A police officer in Crown Heights shot and killed a deranged man who charged at him with a 9-inch blade Tuesday afternoon, following a tense and hours-long stand-off with police with the same man who stabbed a student at a synagog

Best Friends Animal Society is holding a pop-up pet adoption event this holiday season at the Brooklyn Expo Center, located at 79 Franklin St. in Greenpoint.

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.