BROWNSVILLE – A day after officially announcing her New York State gubernatorial run, Cynthia Nixon delivered a fiery speech in front of almost 100 local residents and reporters in Brownsville yesterday. Following months of a rumored gubernatorial run, Nixon, best known for her role as Miranda Hobbes on the HBO series, Sex and The City, released a video on Monday […]
Members of the Brooklyn Teen Republican Club (BTRC) rallied in front of embattled Assemblymember Pamela Harris’ (D-Coney Island Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights) Bay Ridge office yesterday to call for her resignation in light of several federal indictments the lawmaker faces. Harris is facing a number of felony corruption charges and remains in office while she is awaiting her day in […]
The city admitted Friday it was guilty of violating its own illegal housing conversion law in housing homeless people in a Bedford-Stuyvesant four-story walk-up approved for 14-units of housing illegally converted into a 43-unit single room occupancy (SRO) building. According to city records, Monroe Lewis LLC acquired the 529 Monroe Street building in May 2016 for $1.7 million, and between […]
Councilmembers Alicka Ampry-Samuel (D–Brownsville, parts of Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, East Flatbush) and Ritchie Torres (D–Bronx) recruited celebrity power to a city hall rally today, in hopes to bring more attention to the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) crisis. Nearly two-dozen New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) residents held signs and chanted, “Enough is enough,” to protest the recent […]
Candidates Ross Barkan (D) and Andrew Gounardes (D) running to unseat State Sen. Marty Golden (R- Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst, Bath Beach, Marine Park and Manhattan Beach) dropped in on the Independent Neighborhood Democrats Club’s (IND) monthly meeting in downtown Brooklyn to rally Democratic support and bash the incumbent. Neither candidate said anything about the other but railed against […]
BEDFORD STUYVESANT – The dusty cavity below the Franklin Avenue shuttle train station in Bedford Stuyvesant is beginning to show signs of progress –– three and a half years after developer Joseph Brunner purchased the property for $19,000,000. The building was originally proposed as an 8-story, mixed-use project at 1134 Fulton Street, at the corner of Franklin Avenue. It was […]
Thousands of city tenants can be forced out of their homes with no long-term housing alternatives as the city cracks down on landlords who violate New York City’s Department of Buildings (DOB) construction guidelines. Landlords who illegally convert buildings to create additional housing without obtaining permits from DOB now face huge fines. The health and fire risks associated with such […]
Every holiday season, the number of workers at Brooklyn-based online retailer UncommonGoods grows by the hundreds, swelling the company from its payroll of 200 employees to 1,000 or more. Jamel Venn-Simmons, 37, of East New York, is happy to be one of them. “They’re a really good company,” says Venn-Simmons, who tracks down merchandise for outbound packages. “On the weekends they give us […]
