Author: Olivia B. Waxman (Olivia B. Waxman)

It’s easy for residents of Kings County to think they are kings of the world, but they may be surprised to find out that they are not the only Brooklyn in the United States. 

Spend enough time at the senior centers in Red Hook and Sheepshead Bay, and you’ll be hard pressed to find people who think of themselves as poor. Not that people aren’t living on fixed incomes, and not that anyone is wealthy. But despite reports that more elderly are living in poverty, these seniors still think...

As the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Board of Trustees voted Monday to raise tuition, students and professors took to the streets in protest.  For nearly four hours, protesters rallied outside Baruch College, marched around the block and stormed Third and Lexington avenues. The shouts and jeers didn’t stop the Trustees from raising tuition...

At the beginning of September, Salve Regina Catholic Academy (nursery-8) opened its doors, a brand new Catholic school in East New York that formed from the merger of three struggling schools—St. Rita’s and St. Michael’s in East New York and St. Sylvester’s in City Line. Boasting more than 730 students, it is now the largest...

  President Obama’s announcement late last month that American troops in Iraq will return home by the end of the year may be bringing the eight-year war to a close. But it is not sitting well with some of Brooklyn’s Iraq war veterans. “If we leave without our goal being completed, if the Iraqi people...

In a neighborhood of maple-colored town houses, there is a maple egg cream.  It’s the fall special at the Brooklyn Farmacy, an old-fashioned soda fountain in a refurbished pharmacy in Carroll Gardens.  The waiter behind the counter has hair the color of the pumpkins that sit on the steps of the neighborhood brownstones.  He grabs an old-fashioned soda...

How one Catholic middle school in Brooklyn is addressing the high attrition rate of boys in the school. It’s a brilliantly sunny Wednesday at Brooklyn Jesuit Prep, a co-ed Jesuit middle school in Crown Heights, and all of the ten students in detention are boys.  The clicking sound of mechanical pencils and the clatter of...