Category: <span>Brooklyn Life</span>

The building used was sold earlier this year with the expectation that all the tenants would leave. But the community — a term that encompasses everyone from elected officials to the bar’s regular stable of crotchety seniors who take the place over in the afternoons — is trying to find a way to keep the Starlite Lounge in business for another 50 years.

A Medicare approved Health Maintenance Organization with a prescription drug program with the government visits Bedford-Stuyvesant... in a truck.

High school teachers cases is being investigated.

The recession is challenging Bushwick's ability to become the new Williambsurg.

Dyker Heights residents go all out for the holidays.

Brooklyn has seen a 33% change in the number of people who receive food stamps. Some women sign up, and find support and sustenance at Bedford-Stuyvesant's St. John's Bread and Life.

Subway and bus commuters may soon be waiting longer or paying more to use the New York public transit system after the MTA announced that its revenue projections are $200 million below what was expected.

Residents of Carroll Gardens debate the fate of the Gowanus Canal, which the EPA may name as a Superfund site soon.

The famed American Ballet Theater, which was once directed by Mikhail Baryshnikov, announced a five-year partnership with the Brooklyn Academy of Music last week. The troupe will premiere The Nutcracker on Dec. 23, 2010.