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."
Place: Brooklyn
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.
via am New York
'Obama Oil' an Atlantic Ave. Hit
The bustling bazaar of Islamic fashion and beauty shops along Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue offer thousands of fragrances – including one called Obama Oil, named after the president.
via The Local
Facebook Alibi Changes Status to Free
Rodney Bradford's Facebook status update about wanting pancakes became his alibi, clearing him of a robbery rap.
via City Limits
Building Outlasts Boom and Bust
The brick apartment building at 1328 Gates Ave. in Bushwick survived the Depression, the 1977 blackout and the 1980s crack epidemic. But it was nearly done in by this decade's housing boom and bust.