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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

Sheldon Silver, Photo: Azi Paybarah Sheldon Silver agreed on Sunday to relinquish his duties as New York State Assembly Speaker on a temporary basis, as he fights federal corruption charges, reported The New York Times .

Police in the 81st Precinct are looking for the gunman who fatally shot a deli owner Sunday evening in Bed-Stuy.