Sixteen years ago Roberto Gill, the founder and owner of CASA Kids Design Company, moved from TriBeca to Brooklyn because his rent was too high. He discovered he was not alone. Brooklyn has become a magnet for designers —173 new design firms were launched in Brooklyn between 2001 and 2009—the latest available data, according to...
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November 28, 2011September 27, 2019Live Wire
In Cypress Hills, a Little-Known Monument to Journalism’s Short Memory – City Room
Journalists are easily forgotten. May be, that is why in 1874, newspaper fraternity took title to 24 lots – room for 360 graves — on a hilltop at the Cypress Hills Cemetery, straddling the Brooklyn-Queens line. Read More – City Room.
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November 28, 2011September 27, 2019Live Wire
CUNY tuition slam – NY Post
The City University’s Board of Trustees is voting today to increase its tuition. According to the plan, the cost for undergrads would be $6,330 a year at CUNY by 2015. In 2010, the cost of tuition was $4,830. Read more at New York Post.
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November 7, 2011September 27, 2019Live Wire
Witness to a School Bus Crash
Jennilene Courtney, the co-owner of Little Andy’s Day Care Center in Canarsie, heard a loud boom at 8:20 a.m. Monday morning. It must have been an accident, she thought. She wasn’t expecting what she saw when she looked out her front window. She screamed when she saw the school bus crashed in her front lawn....
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October 25, 2011October 26, 2011Brooklyn Life
From Happy New Year to Good Yoga
Flannery Foster and Ray Gonzales, co-founders of Good Yoga. If a pair of strangers had not met on New Years Eve of 2009, Good Yoga would not exist in Greenpoint. That night, Flannery Foster, 33, went to a party at the apartment of Ray Gonazales, 34. The apartment looked like a loft with white...
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October 16, 2011October 17, 2011Brooklyn Life
VIDEO: Occupy Brooklyn
A short video of the Occupy Brooklyn Protests on Saturday in Grand Army Plaza.
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October 11, 2011October 13, 2011Brooklyn Life, Business
Meet OWS’s (Unofficial) Brooklyn Accountant
Our reporter Ravi Kumar caught up with Peter Dutro, a Brooklynite who helps manage finance at Occupy Wall Street. Peter Dutro, 36, of Brooklyn is one of the members of the finance committee at Occupy Wall Street. Dutro, a business technology management undergraduate at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, has been helping the protest since...
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October 3, 2011October 3, 2011Live Wire
Art attack! Street artist uses Park Slope sign as canvas- The Brooklyn Paper
Catch it while you can: A renegade artist has used a Park Slope “No Parking” signpost to showcase a pop art commentary on drug use — but city officials say it won’t be gracing the streetscape much longer. Read More: The Brooklyn Paper
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October 3, 2011October 3, 2011Live Wire
Judge rules FDNY systematically discriminated against minority applicants, cites racist practices – NY Daily News
Judge Nicholas Garaufis, a Federal judge ruled on Friday that FDNY have discriminated against minorities in recruiting, applicant screening and the investigation of discrimination. “The underrepresentation of black firefighters in the FDNY – a direct result and vestige of the city’s pattern and practice of discrimination against black firefighter candidates – is responsible for making...
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October 3, 2011October 3, 2011Live Wire
On Facebook, Neighborhoods as They Once Were -NY Times.com
Brooklynites are using Facebook to reconnect with their neighborhoods. Check out “The Neighborhood: Who Says You Can’t Go Home?”, “I Loved Being a Kid in Flatbush, Brooklyn During the 70s and 80s!!!!” or “Greenpoint Natives,” Does your neighborhood have a Facebook Page? Read More: NY Times