Partying With a Personal Touch
Dashawn Gables makes your party her business. The owner of Brooklyn Fav…
Place: Brooklyn
via Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Renters Evicted From Civic Group
If you can't join 'em, beat 'em. That's the mantra of some Manhattan Beac…
via New York Daily News
Bookworms Decry RIF-Off
Jade Stebbins, 5, developed her love of books thanks to her mother – and RIF. But planned federal cuts would decimate RIF's Inexpensive Book Distribution program, impacting kids like Jade. Librarians and parents are banding to fight for funding.
via New York Daily News
DUMBO Bags Shoppers
DUMBO'S got a brand new bag. The DUMBO Business Improvement District is handing out free reusable canvas bags to the neighborhood's 1,300 households.
School Budget Cuts Slice Deep
The word came down from on high. In late January, Mayor Bloomberg announce…
via Courier-Life Publications
Nails in the Economic Coffin
Manicurists are biting their nails over the current economic downturn. Spending at spas is down, according to customers and owners in Williamsburg – an indication some folks are cutting back on even the most ordinary of pampering.
via Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Coney Island's Changing Views
As residents, developers and the city duke it out over Coney Island’s fut…
via Bay News/Courier Life Publications
Sanitation Samaritan Helps Hungry
Unlike most great stories, this one begins in the trash. Tom Neve’s discovery of an escalating homeless population along his Brooklyn sanitation route was an image that he just couldn’t throw away. So he started a volunteer-run food pantry.