Author: Lea Khayata (Lea Khayata)

The three-year conversion of the McCarren Park pool, a former public school abandoned since 1984, is on track and will open on time in the summer of 2012, according to the Parks Department in an article by The Brooklyn Paper. The conversion is a $50 million project, the most important in New York City. The...

The Boro Park Shomrim were awarded by District Attorney  Charles J. Hynes for their heroic action, according to  The Yeshiva World. “You work for the police and with the police, and you should be commended for that.” Hynes said. On Sept. 2nd, four shomrim were shot while trying to arrest a man who was allegedly fondling...

Peter Tulloch, founder and producer of the summer event that gathers local vendors, community businesses and popular music, is recruiting organizations and community members to help him achieve going green, according to The Local. “Now we’ll be trying to get all the restaurants into environmentally sustainable practices, in terms of getting all the cups, plates,...

Lopez railed against city newspapers and his “enemies” in the real-estate industry during an Oct. 28 meeting for loft tenants in Williamsburg to address landlord-tenant harassment in Bushwick and Williamsburg following the passage of his bill extending rights to tenants of illegally converted buildings., reported The Brooklyn Paper. It is Lopez’s first public appearance after...

The New York City Capital Resource Corp., a local development corporation controlled by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is holding a hearing about the boutique hotel today to determine if the economic benefit justifies the $15 million in federal tax-exempt financing Two Tree Management Co. applied for, according to The Wall Street Journal. The hotel’s proposed location...

The planters that are creating blind spots on the median of Oriental Blvd. will be removed at the end of the month, according to the NY Daily News, who had reported about the issue last week. There have been 59 accidents on Oriental Blvd., 10 of which were pedestrians, since 2005, according to city Department of...

New York city agreed on a $ 10 million settlement over failures at the Newtown Creek wastewater treatment plant, 7 of which are specifically targeted for waterfront-improvement projects within a half mile of the treatment plant, according to The New York Post. Brooklyn residents now get to cast their vote for one of 27 proposals...

Jurors continue deliberations today in the trial of Teon Brummell who is accused of murdering and mutilating his girlfriend, the Ink’s Ceylan Yeginsu reports. Brummell, 33, is charged with second-degree murder for beating and stabbing Natasha Southerland, 21, with a dumbbell and knife in their basement apartment on Hemlock Street on September 20, 2004. Brummell...

Smart Tax, a tax preparation service, is going to open a year-round call center in Red Hook, founder Nick Rizzi, a financial planner from Brooklyn, said in an interview to The Connecticut Post.