The Lower East Side Ecology Center recently opened an e-warehouse in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn where residents and small businesses can recycle their electronics. This is the first permanent drop off location for the Center, which has been promoting electronic recycling throughout New York City since 2003. Produced by Cristabelle Tumola and Rebecca Ellis.
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February 13, 2012September 30, 2019Brooklyn Life
Price of a Landmark
The recent battle over creating a historic skyscraper district in Downtown Brooklyn raised an unresolved question: Is historic preservation always the right choice?
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February 6, 2012September 30, 2019Brooklyn Life
Brooklyn Looks to Slow Zones to Curb Speeding
The New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) launched a Neighborhood Slow Zone program this fall that reduces speed limits from 30 mph to 20 mph and adds safety measures, such as speed bumps, within a select area. The first and currently only existing Slow Zone in the city was created in the Claremont section of the Bronx in late November. Now several neighborhoods in Brooklyn are applying for their own Neighborhood Slow Zones, hoping to make their streets safer.
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December 21, 2011September 30, 2019Brooklyn Life
Residents Brace for Barclays Center Traffic With Concern and Trepidation
With less than a year to go before opening night, residents are worried about the traffic and parking problems that will come with the new arena.
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December 1, 2011September 30, 2019Brooklyn Life
Activists and OWS Demand Funding for Disease Care On World AIDS Day
A World AIDS Day march tied to the Occupy Wall Street movement ended with police detaining and taking away at least eight protesters for blocking traffic in downtown Manhattan Thursday. The protesters, five of whom were chained together, were stretched across the entire length of Broadway in front of City Hall Park and dressed in...
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December 1, 2011September 30, 2019Brooklyn Life
An Education in Truth
Before September 11 Megan Stack never imagined herself as a war correspondent in the Middle East. But before 9/11, Americans never imagined they’d be attacked on their own soil and engaged in several wars either. Stack was 25 years old when she was sent to cover Afghanistan for the Los Angeles Times. Before that she...
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November 23, 2011September 27, 2019Brooklyn Life
Prospect Heights Brings Community Discussion Online
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November 18, 2011September 27, 2019Brooklyn Life
New Exhibit Has Sparked Praise, and Outrage
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November 10, 2011September 27, 2019Brooklyn Life
Commuter Vans Defy Rules for Transit-Needy Brooklyn
Weekday mornings Osmond Thorne takes commuters and children to school, but he is not driving a bus or subway train. He is behind the wheel of a 15-person commuter van. The vans are a cheap and convenient way to get around Brooklyn, but they also skirt city regulations by regularly straying outside of their licensed...
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October 28, 2011October 28, 2011Brooklyn Life
Sharing Food and Culture in Prospect Heights
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