Last year, a black woman was assaulted and stabbed on a subway platform for the color of her skin. What followed was a series of troubling errors by medical professionals and the NYPD.
Category: <span>Brooklyn Life</span>
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They’re Taking Everything Away
The closing of Red Hook’s biggest laundromat portends a new reality for residents, whose home is shrinking around them.
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A Park Slope Co-op School Battles Rising Childcare Costs
How parents are trading work for lower tuition and communal support at a cooperative preschool.
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Who Forgot the Schools?
An ambitious plan for Downtown Brooklyn didn’t anticipate all those kids.
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A Multi-Million Dollar Construction Project Fails to Support Bike Safety in Greenpoint
Both a raised bike path and action by police has been ineffective in deterring delivery vehicles from parking in the bike lanes, endangering cyclists, advocates say.
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Is a New Industrial Revolution Coming to Brooklyn? Maybe
New York’s first smart factory aims to build high quality jobs for Brooklynites.
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“Red Hook,” Brooklyn’s Very Own Superhero, Battles Villains and Rising Rents
Dean Haspiel, an award-winning comic book artist, uses The Red Hook to show an alternative Brooklyn where art is capital.
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Crown Heights Warily Awaits a New Neighbor: A Supermodern Hotel
The architect promises public spaces. Will all feel welcome in them?
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Kane Street Synagogue: A Change in the Weather?
Immigrant Muslims have long been part of the community, but some of them feel less welcome lately.