Author: Brian Browdie (Brian Browdie)

A fire company in Bushwick, which lost six men in the Al Qaeda attack, has been replenished by military veterans On Sept. 11, 2001, Joshua Wiener was in the field with his Marine Corps regiment near California’s Yosemite Valley, where the men were training for wilderness warfare. While Wiener and his fellow Marines did not...

At the southwest corner of Himrod Street and Wilson Avenue in Bushwick stands the Himrod Wilson Community Garden, where tomatoes, basil, summer squash, string beans, eggplant, mint and more grow from four plots. Luis A. Ramos, 46, who lives next door, started clearing the lot two years ago. “When I came to this lot, it...

Whenever John Manbeck, an 80-year-old retired professor of English and former Brooklyn borough historian, drives across the Brooklyn Bridge, he stays in the middle lane. “Drivers tend to drift toward the edges,” said Manbeck. Manbeck studies how people move. On a July afternoon, he led a walking tour of the bridge. Manbeck said that he...