Author: Michael Copley (Michael Copley)

The lasting effects of the recession and record numbers of homeless people in New York City have heightened tension between the city’s Department of Homeless Services and neighborhoods that feel overburdened by shelters.

Perhaps the only thing more chilling than the current condition of Europe’s banking and financial systems—and the threat of contagion—is the notion that some people saw this coming and did nothing. They played their hands rather than sound the alarms. “One of the hidden causes of the current global financial crisis is that the people...

It happened so quickly, and its effects have lasted for so long. Two years after the recession ended, upwards of 100,000 people in Brooklyn are still without work. We know the numbers. But who are the people behind them? What do their lives look like after a year, two years, even three years without a...

Eric Bullen, store owner in the neighborhood since 1977, was honored as an “economic development trailblazer” during the seventh annual Bed-Stuy Alive.

In 2007, Khiel Coppin, an 18-year-old Bedford-Stuyvesant man with a history of mental illness, was shot and killed by police during a confrontation at his family's apartment. The killing focused attention on the state of the health care system in Bed-Stuy as Community Board 3 pointed to the system’s failure to intervene on Coppin’s behalf.

A state supreme court judge overruled defense lawyers this morning and allowed the jury in a Brooklyn murder trial to watch a surveillance video of the moments before and after the victim was shot twice in the head. Zalmai Anwari, 24, was shot Dec. 29, 2008, after he observed two men robbing the cell phone...