Author: Keith Collins (Keith Collins)

About 100 people showed up for the Oct. 23 Brooklyn Tech Meetup in DUMBO. Here’s an audio report and some photos from the event. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/66009849″ params=”auto_play=false&show_artwork=false&color=ff7700″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]  

Last year, a young filmmaker named Jeremy Smyth was browsing Kickstarter and came across something that captured his interest. It was a project page for a campaign that had been launched by UnionDocs, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit center for documentary arts. The group was raising funds to renovate its headquarters, a building on Union Avenue in...

Jurors will begin deliberations tomorrow in the trial of three Brooklyn men accused of murdering a teenager and an adult in a 2009 gang-related shooting in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The prosecution and defense rested their cases today after a medical examiner and a detective took the stand on the trial’s sixth day of testimony. The jury for...

On May 9, the Wall Street Journal reported that Etsy, Inc, the DUMBO-based web company, was worth more than $600 million. Five days later, a company called Unified Messaging Solutions filed a lawsuit against Etsy, claiming that a feature on etsy.com infringed five of its patents. The patents in question are on “methods for storing,...

Depending on who you ask – and where you do the asking – the people on the forefront of the fight to save Bedford-Stuyvesant’s Slave Theater are a noble band of do-gooders, or an unwelcome group of outsiders trying to usurp the neighborhood’s legacy. The first view was captured last Saturday night, as people filed into...

This is how Deeba Chaudri, an optometrist who lives in Brooklyn Heights, knows when the economy is doing well: people buy colored contact lenses along with their regular prescription; they come in for routine appointments by choice, and not just when they urgently need new glasses. Right now, from Chaudri’s perspective, the economy does not...