Author: Danika Fears (Danika Fears)

For most American teenagers the first day of high school is fraught with anxiety. There are, after all, big questions to consider—What should I wear? How will I fit in? Where is my first class? But at the International High School in Prospect Heights, the answers to these questions are even more complicated than usual....

The OWS protestors lost their makeshift homes in Zuccotti Park on Tuesday morning, but the movement has found a more permanent resting place in the online community. Protestors are now working on ways to unify their social media efforts and connect “Occupy” groups across the country.

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Once officially classified a “food desert,” Brownville now has plenty of fresh produce, but residents aren't necessarily eating their fruits and vegetables.

After several days of witness and expert testimony, the murder trial of Lamel Fabers and Bobby Pressley is drawing to a close. Tomorrow Judge Neil Firetog of State Supreme Court in Brooklyn will deliver sentencing instructions to the jury. During closing arguments this afternoon, Pressley’s attorney, Kleon Andreadis, urged jurors to “think of what you...

It was only 20 years ago that pushcart vendors paraded along the busy blocks of Belmont Avenue, a four-block commercial strip in Brownsville. Now nearly half of the avenue’s storefronts are listed for sale and not a single eating establishment remains. The landscape of Belmont swiftly changed in the 1990’s when street vendors and business...