Facebook Push to Rename Brooklyn Heights Park After Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch
After a three year battle with cancer Adam Yauch, founding member of the hip-hop music group Beastie Boys died on
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Re-examining Brooklyn’s Chinese Community: Asian American Week
For decades the major concentration of Americans of Chinese descent has been in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Flushing
Read MoreJoffrey Ballet Joining With Fort Hamilton High School to Make High Level Dance Program
It all began last summer when Joffrey Ballet Director Gail D’Addario visited the Cutting Den hair salon to touch up
Read MoreDon’t Miss Fleet Week New York
This is the weekend to enjoy greeting thousands of sailors, marines and coast guardsmen from the U.S. Navy and U.S.
Read MoreConey Island’s Ruby’s Renovation Lets Landmark Bar Stay Put
Almost as old as the boardwalk itself, Ruby’s has just finished a major face-lift which was part of the deal
Read MoreBringing Out the Color of NYC with the Tattoo Convention
This weekend, everyone who was anyone was busy getting a tattoo. Or so it seemed. The 15th Annual New York
Read MoreLocal Activist, Sonia Valentin Fernandez, Honored for Her Work
Anyone who knows Sonia Valentin Fernandez knows how much she deserved the recent honor she received. Nominated for the state
Read MoreBrooklyn College Cleared of Anti-Jewish Bias
Brooklyn College’s provost William Tramontano was exonerated of the charge of discriminating against orthodox Jews in his hiring and firing
Read MoreFlatbush’s Sears Attains Historic Status
Completed in 1932 at the height of the Great Depression, the distinctively Art Deco structure with the 10-story tall tower
Read MoreBrooklyn Zoning Change May Bring Bossert Hotel Back to Former Glory
Once known as the “Waldorf-Astoria of Brooklyn” the Bossert Hotel has not functioned as a hotel since the early 1980s
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