20 May 2012, 5:41 am
A growing number of designers are applying their skills and entrepreneurial zeal to empower the billions of people who lack basic products and services.... Read More »
20 May 2012, 4:03 am
Filmmaker, musician and writer Marcus Bleecker has announced the launch of DUMBO Stories: Vol. 1, a collection of short stories chronicling his life as a struggling musician living in historic DUMBO, Brooklyn.New York, New York (PRWEB) May 20, 2012 Filmmaker, musician and writer Marcus Bleecker has ... Read More »
19 May 2012, 10:50 am
Charles Hynes acts as critics accuse him of failing to protect victims and their families and of protecting rabbinical leaders The Brooklyn district attorney has set up a taskforce to combat the intimidation of child sexual abuse victims in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community amid growing criticism ... Read More »
19 May 2012, 6:50 am
Is Hakeem Jeffries Brooklyn’s Barack Obama ? The young New York assemblyman running for the seat held by retiring Rep. Ed Towns (D) shares some surface characteristics with the president. “They’re both African-American, they’re both strikingly handsome, and they’re both highly intelligent,... Read More »
19 May 2012, 6:24 am
Welcome to New York City's largest and loudest fishing tournament.... Read More »
18 May 2012, 11:25 am
Brooklyn-born Beastie Boy Adam Yauch is getting posthumous props from his beloved city. On Thursday, the New York Senate passed a resolution honoring the lifelong New Yorker’s accomplishments, according to MTV. Yauch died of cancer earlier this month. The resolution — officially billed as J4637 ... Read More »
18 May 2012, 8:46 am
It's a Friday in May, which means we're asking one question in South Florida: What the heck's going on in New York? + A Manhattan federal judge has awarded class-action status to a lawsuit against the NYPD's controversial stop-and-frisk policy, which opponents claim disproportionatel... Read More »
17 May 2012, 3:08 pm
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A cancer-stricken judge in New York has become an unlikely voice in support of legalizing the use of medical marijuana with the admission that he smokes pot to ease the side-effects of his treatments. Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Gustin Reichbach, who is being treated for panc... Read More »
16 May 2012, 2:33 pm
Sotheby’s International Realty Affiliates LLC today announced that Warren Lewis Realty, LLC in Brooklyn, N.Y., is the newest member of its luxury real estate network and will now operate as Warren Lewis Sotheby’s International Realty. According to the company, the firm is independently owned by ... Read More »
9 May 2012, 8:40 am
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Superstar Barbra Streisand is coming home to Brooklyn.... Read More »