Author: Keldy Ortiz (Keldy Ortiz)

The many vacant buildings in Bedford-Stuyvesant have become eyesores, negatively impacting the community.

Some of us are still trying to figure out how the leading causes of the ongoing U.S. economic crisis went unnoticed before it began in 2008.  Author Michael Lewis, however, in his book, The Big Short: Inside The Doomsday Machine, focuses on Wall Street traders who not only foreshadowed the problem, but also made a...

It’s game time on a Saturday afternoon at the Brownsville Recreation Center. Middle schoolers in haphazardly tied pinnies are battling it out on the basketball court under the watchful eyes of black leaders and sports stars painted like graffiti on the gym’s walls. The figures seem to be saying that there are possibilities outside of...

Violence erupts randomly on the streets of Crown Heights.  What has remained consistent is the need for children to get out and play. The violence has been a subject of recent community board and precinct meetings.  Nancie Katz, however, seeks to remind people about the good things that also happen in the neighborhood.  One of...

The Occupy Wall Street movement poured into New York’s most populous borough as thousands of demonstrators marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Thursday evening.

Michael Gargiulo had a great job at MTV out of college, but then things started to change. Gargiulo left MTV to work for a new small production company for a year. After that company downsized, he went back to MTV, and worked on one show before being let go again in May. It was a new and disturbing experience.

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