Author: Scott Eidler (Scott Eidler)

Since launching in March, the Brooklyn-based startup Aereo lets viewers watch television on a web browser. They only have access, however, to the basic broadcast channels – the same ones they’d get if they owned a television set and a pair of rabbit ear antennas.

When the basketball season starts, the new Nets arena is expected to draw thousands of sports spectators to Park Slope and alter the dynamic of many of the neighborhood spots, like O'Connor's on 5th Avenue.

Earlier today Enterprise, NASA's prototype space shuttle, entered New York airspace. Attached to the back of a NASA Boeing 747, the shuttle flew over Manhattan and parts of Long Island. (Photo Credit: Tom Milewski/Slate.com)

In Brooklyn, the time is ripe for urban farming. Especially on rooftops. Last month, Whole Foods Market gained approval to build a store in Gowanus, and when it opens next year, it will be home to the supermarket chain’s first rooftop farm. On April 5, BrightFarms, a company in Brooklyn that builds greenhouses, unveiled plans...

  At a quarter to nine Sunday night in Williamsburg, a copywriter arrived at the lobby of the Nitehawk Cinema for a party to view the season premiere of “Mad Men.” He came with two of his co-workers at Deutsch, the agency where they worked Saturday pitching ads all day to potential clients. They looked...

As a cacophony of Tweets, Facebook posts, and online comments surrounding a video about Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony grows louder, some college students in Brooklyn can’t seem to be bothered.

Many of the unemployed are enrolled in a customer service class through Build, an organization in Brooklyn that helps them find jobs. They hope to be hired at the Barclay’s Center, the new basketball arena poised to be the cornerstone of the Atlantic Yards project when it opens in the fall.

A dance studio in Fort Greene, Brooklyn aims to keep African culture and tradition alive through unique dance and music classes.