Author: Vikram Patel (Vikram Patel)

  While the total number of jobs in New York City declined by 0.5 percent between 2000 and 2010, Brooklyn added more than 50,000 jobs in that period, including more than 9,300 in the food service industry, according to a report from the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. Figures released by the State Labor Department show...

Nino, a 68-year-old fishmonger, has been selling his fresh catches off a tabletop on the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Grove Street in Bushwick for the past 15 years. But he doesn't call it a business -- to him, it's simply a "hobby."

  On March 19, a lone gunman in southern France murdered three Jewish schoolchildren and a rabbi outside of the Ozar Hatorah secondary school in Toulouse. On Thursday morning, just three days after the shootings, French police killed Mohammed Merah after they stormed the gun-wielding suspect’s home. The incident has sent ripples across the world,...

Publisher Milton Allimadi's server nearly crashed on Thursday after he posted an editorial criticizing Invisible Children's viral video, "Kony 2012."

  In 1916, seven members of Berean Baptist Church, one of the oldest and most historic churches in Brooklyn, scraped together everything they had and set out to build their own church.  It was an ambitious task, but after “much prayer and consultation” they purchased a small storefront on the corner of Fulton Street and...