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Super Foodtown Celebrates Store's Grand Reopening

Super Foodtown Bed-Stuy Owner Noah Katz (center) holds ribbon-cutting for store's grand reopening with (l to r) Gov.

Bed-Stuy Restoration Chief Colvin Grannum Named a Trustee of Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colvin Grannum, president and chief executive officer of the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, recently was named a board trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently has elected Colvin W.

BK Reader Exclusive: Kelis on Cooking, Her New Book and Upcoming Book Signing in Bed-Stuy

Kelis Her "milkshake brings all the boys to the yard" because...
Brooklyn hipsters fight school de-segregation: They ‘aren’t racists’ — ‘they just don’t want to be in a ghetto’

Brooklyn hipsters fight school de-segregation: They ‘aren’t racists’ — ‘they just don’t want to be in a ghetto’

More than 100 parents showed up to oppose a proposed rezoning plan that would desegregate two public elementary schools in Brooklyn Heights.

Griots in the Stuy

(l to r): Kwesi Abbensetts and Rasu Jilani, co-collaborators of "Griots in the Stuy.
Project Protest: When Art Starts a Movement in Bed-Stuy

Project Protest: When Art Starts a Movement in Bed-Stuy

Some might remember it as a " Summer of Disconten t:" From Sandra Bland to Freddie Gray ; from Natasha McKenna to Walter Scott ; from tennis star James Blake to 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed -- this past summer's headlines were awash with stories of soci

Spike Lee's 'Crooklyn' Brownstone Gets Reimagined, Renovated, Restored!

Elizabeth Mandarano, owner of 7 Arlington Place, the brownstone that was the setting for the movie, "Crooklyn" There's hardly a single Brooklynite unfamiliar with the 1994 iconic Spike Lee film, "Crooklyn," a story that chronicles a Brooklyn family a

Common Grounds, a Neighborhood Staple in Bed-Stuy, is Closing its Doors, Says Owner

Photo: Facebook The Tompkins Avenue coffee shop Common Grounds-- a beloved staple in the Bed-Stuy community-- will be closing on September 27, 2015, announced its owner Tremaine Wright on Facebook on Thursday.

Locale: New Boutique in Bed-Stuy Lets Micro-Entrepreneurs Tell Their Own Story

Donald Edwards, co-owner of Locale Village Shop & Yoga "Bed-Stuy made me do it," said Donald Edwards, co-owner of Locale Village Shop & Yoga , a boutique gift shop and yoga studio, located at 410 Marcus Garvey Blvd.

Francine Chew: Do You BCoop?

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