via Explain the Plan
Inside Brooklyn’s Bat Cave
Squatters and graffiti artists turned an old MTA power plant along the Gowanus Canal into their own playground, named after Batman's old haunt.
Place: Brooklyn
Boutique Books Press Advantage
Even in the era of the iPad, the boutique book business is booming.
via City Limits
Crime Plagues Brooklyn Seniors
Residents of a city-run senior citizen's housing complex in Crown Heights are fed up with inadequate security after two home invasion robberies this year and three similar incidents in the summer.
via Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Going Bagless in Brooklyn
Some small shops are no long offering customers disposable bags with purchases.
via The Local
Dying For Yoga – in a Funeral Home
A Brooklyn yoga studio owner has set up shop in a former funeral home where her students practice "death meditation."
via The Local
Daycare in Gentrifying Areas Faces Ax
The Duffield Children's Center in Fort Greene is among 15 subsidized daycare operations, located in gentrifying neighborhoods, that could be shuttered.
via Gay City News
Gay-Friendly Bar Faces Final Curtain
Brooklyn's Starlite Lounge, which bills itself as the “oldest black-owned non-discriminating bar in New York,” is battling eviction after a half-century in business.
via New York Daily News
Scraping by on Scrap Metal
Hard times are spurring an increase in scrap metal scavenging.