via Bensonhurst Bean
Sandy Loans Lag in Some Areas
Data shows the federal Small Business Administration has funded less than 30 percent of storm-related loans for people in some of the hardest hit areas of Brooklyn.
Spotlight
via Brooklyn Daily Eagle
A Library Reborn in Brooklyn
Parents at Boerum Hill’s Public School 38 banded to reopen the school's library, which had been shuttered for seven years.
via The Local
Moms Tackle Gun Control
Dara Sicherman was never an activist. Until recently, her days were fully o…
via City Atlas
Riding a Solar Wave, Post-Sandy
Surfers are among the environmental advocates helping introduce solar power to the Rockaways as the area rebuilds.
via Mott Haven Herald
Lincoln Memorial’s Bronx Link
A retired math teacher wants to make sure the once-famous Piccirilli family, who members fashioned the famed tribute to the 16th president from their Mott Haven studio, is not forgotten.
via The Queens Courier
Community Unites Amid Slaying
Friends and neighbors have provided comfort and help to a Woodside man since the October murder of his husband.
via Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Closing Center Fishes For Funds
Supporters of the Biko Transformation Center held a fish-fry as part of a bid to save the Bushwick community staple.
via Bushwick Daily
Images of Changing Bushwick
Photographer Meryl Meisler began chronicling the Brooklyn neighborhood in the 1980s after becoming an art teacher at a local middle school.