The East 21st Street area may not be totally transformed, but residents say it is much safer than it was several years ago.
Category: <span>A Changing Brooklyn</span>
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A Changing Brooklyn: Babies of the “Brownstone Belt”
As birthing centers, home births, and midwife-assisted births gain traction nationwide, some expectant mothers in Brooklyn’s “brownstone belt" are beginning to take note.
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A Changing Brooklyn: Bed-Stuy
When Henry Butler hears someone blurt out, “The New Bed-Stuy,” or “Bed-Stuy is changing,” he can quickly become irritated. What about Bed-Stuy's existing middle class?
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A Changing Brooklyn: Clinton Hill
New businesses are opening along Myrtle Avenue with help from the Myrtle Avenue Partnership BID while the vacant lot across from Myrtle Plaza is being tended to by a local congregation.
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A Changing Brooklyn
Brooklyn has always been a dynamic borough filled with a diverse population, but the process of change has perhaps never been as rapid and deep as it has been in recent years and months. To get a feel for at least some of these changes, our reporters fanned out to several Brooklyn neighborhoods, looking for...
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A Changing Brooklyn: Greenpoint
In the wake of construction and higher rents in Greenpoint, Polish restaurant owner Krystyna Dura realizes she needs to adapt if she wants her business to survive.
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A Changing Brooklyn: Bushwick
In Bushwick, EcoStation:NY’s Bushwick Campus Farm is empowering young Brooklyn minds, one plate at a time.
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A Changing Brooklyn: Gowanus
The Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club is one example of new investment in the old industrial neighborhood of Gowanus.
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A Changing Brooklyn: South Slope
A neighborhood's boundary is hard to clarify--by both its residents and its visitors.
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A Changing Brooklyn: Boerum Hill
Rent rates on Court Street are escalating. As big box store stake their claim on the envied Court Street shopping space, they offer property owners what small businesses don’t. A better offer. It's not only a loss to business owners, but also to this Brooklyn urban Mayberry.