Big Stink Over Gowanus’ Future
The feds are eying using Superfund money to clean up the Gowanus Canal. But opponents – including City Hall – say the Superfund process would take too long and could prevent redevelopment along the canal’s banks.
The feds are eying using Superfund money to clean up the Gowanus Canal. But opponents – including City Hall – say the Superfund process would take too long and could prevent redevelopment along the canal’s banks.
A new bank brings new hope on one of Brooklyn's most vibrant strips.
Nour Abbas was a translator for the U.S. military in Iraq when she and her father were shot by insurgents in 2005. He was killed. She still carries the scars, physical and otherwise.
John Howe started keeping bees on his Fort Greene roof nine years ago and has been hooked ever since.
As Robert Lopez tells it, his legal troubles began when he plucked a bundle of fake dynamite from the trash and took it home with plans to turn the fake bomb into a piggy bank.
The developers of a planned 18-story condominium are offering to give DUMBO a free school – but critics say the building would block views of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Khalil Rashid of the Labor Services Resource Room in Brooklyn helps people find jobs — no easy task these days.
Fort Greene's Institutional Church of God in Christ is broadcasting its services on the radio after a 30-year absence from the airwaves.