Protecting Red Hook from the Rising Tide
As the city explores three possible locations for a seawall, locals are more interested in more creative homegrown solutions.
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Package-Free Grocery on Tap for Brooklyn
A planned new ecofriendly, health grocery store seeks to make mindful living mainstream.
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Brooklyn Veteran Recalls Pearl Harbor
"All hell broke loose," Clark J. Simmons, of Sheepshead Bay, remembered 75 years after the "Day of Infamy."
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Stained Glass Master Marks 40 Years of Art
Peter Romano has helped brighten Brooklyn churches and homes for four decades.
Lights, Trains and Other Signs of the Season
It's beginning to look a lot like the holidays, everywhere you go. Our reporters offer seasonal dispatches from Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx.
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A Window into Macy’s Holiday Magic
The department store's annnual window displays – this year's theme: "Tech Miracle on 34th Street" – were hatched in a Red Hook warehouse.
Overcoming Voter Wariness in East Flatbush
Local Democrats scrambled in recent weeks to mount a multi-pronged get-out-the-vote campaign amid a recent history of polling site problems.
Young Republicans Keep GOP Flame Burning in Brooklyn
A small but fervent group of young activists stand by the GOP in a borough where Democrats outnumber Republicans by an 8-1 margin.