Articles tagged with: Brooklyn
After a 4-year break, VH1 Divas is back. NYPost catches up with Miley Cyrus, Kelly Clarkson and more of pop music’s most talented female artists.
Farming is not just for the countryside anymore. Find out what city dwellers are doing to turn their rooftops into useable space.
The arrest of Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, the Brooklyn resident charged last month with acting as a “matchmaker” for buyers and sellers of human organs, spotlights the issue of live donor organ trafficking in the United States. It also raises a question: How could Rosenbaum ply his trade for as long as a decade, according to statements in the criminal complaint filed against him, without being caught?
The Atlantic Yards development project in Brooklyn was set to include housing, offices and a basketball arena. But the recession has forced the project to scale back. Sally Herships for the Marketplace reports that could be a good thing.
Help clean up the Gowanus Canal this summer! On May 30, June 27, July 25, August 22, September 19 and October 19 volunteers are invited to join the Gowanus Canal Conservancy in an attempt to clean up the Canal.
The garbage and trash in Brooklyn’s Bay Ridge has become a real problem. Is it due to budget cuts and not enough trucks to empty waste baskets or are the residents themselves to blame? The opinions differ, but everyone agrees that something needs to be done.
The locals can’t take the dirty streets anymore, The Brooklyn Paper reports. “It’s a disaster — the avenues are filthy and they have to be cleaned up,” said state Sen. Marty Golden (R-Bay Ridge), who told residents at a town hall meeting last Monday that he was shocked by the soiled state of Fifth Avenue.
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Monday 23rd, starts the long awaited Brooklyn Restaurant …
Brooklyn Navy Yard. Can it be revitalized?
What would it look like?
