via Brooklyn Based
Brooklyn’s Meaning of Life
Brooklyn Public Philosophers discuss questions even bigger than the borough.
Place: Brooklyn
via Voices of NY
Ebola Hits Home in Brooklyn
A Park Slope non-profit group is scrambling to get supplies to a clinic it runs in Liberia.
Vermouth Maker’s Touch of Glass
Bianca Miraglia’s start-up company, Uncouth Vermouth, produces only a few hundred cases annually – and that’s how she likes it.
via New York Daily News
NYCHA Security Cameras Blocked
Scaffolding blocks the views of five security cameras at the Van Dyke Houses in Brownsville.
via The Jewish Daily Forward
Kosher Soup Kitchen Struggles
The Masbia soup kitchen, which serves Jewish and non-Jewish clients, expects to serve up to 1.5 million meals this year — twice the number doled out in 2013.
via The Jewish Daily Forward
A Williamsburg Toy Story
The Wise Buys toyshop caters to children in Hasidic Brooklyn.
via Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Hookah Smoke Complaints Heat Up
Brooklyn residents who live above hookah lounges are calling on business owners to install better ventilation systems.
via The Jewish Daily Forward
Keeping Kosher, via Colombia
Ruben Diaz is the head chef at Masbia, a kosher soup kitchen network.