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Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito Photo: William Alatriste-New York CIty Council_ A week after a Staten Island grand jury failed to indict a white police officer in the death of Eric Garner, a black Staten Islander, New York City Council Speaker

Protesters at rally One-man/one-woman shows have a very clear-cut likability metric for me: Either I love them or I hate them. It's no middle ground.

Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, as a part of the 2014 RFK Memorial Holiday Party, and the photography exhibit, "Here I Am: Girls Reclaiming Safe Spaces," currently on display at the Skylight Gallery, will hold a special photography worksh

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

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.