Author: Brian Eha (Brian Eha)

The transformation of Union Avenue is one of several initiatives currently being pursued by local officials, non-profits and citizen activist groups to address the severe lack of open space in this historically park-poor community.

Rising property prices define who can stay in the new Williamsburg.

As if busy New Yorkers didn’t have enough to worry about this holiday season, an old nuisance is growing alarmingly commonplace. Opportunistic thieves are snatching purses and other items in the subway with increased frequency, often right out of owners’ hands. Subway theft is up 23 percent from this time last year, the NYPD has...

Imagine you’re a Hasidic Jewish boy of perhaps five years old. By this time, like other Hasidic boys, you’ve already been attending heder, primary school, for two years. Six days a week you rise early. Maybe you take the bus, if you live in the Hasidic community of Borough Park, or maybe you walk, if...

Brooklyn’s historic Navy Yard will open to the public tomorrow for the first time in 200 years and boast a $25 million hybrid visitor and employment center. The facility — an already thriving job engine — is expected to yield 300 new jobs over the next 12 months and thousands more in the following years....

American troops will leave Iraq by the end of the year. Since the beginning of the war, 21 soldiers from Brooklyn have died in Iraq. On Veterans Day, we honor those who fell.

What’s happening here is happening all over the country, as the number of impoverished Americans climbs and federal budgets are stretched to the breaking point.

What happens here is happening all over the country, as the number of impoverished Americans climbs and federal budgets are stretched to the breaking point.