Muriel Beal moved into the Denizen in 2020, when the nearly $4,000 a month she paid for a luxury condo was a golden ticket to amenities that included a bowling alley, outdoor hot tubs and brewery two ...

An 80% rent increase at a historic affordable housing complex in South Williamsburg has tenants fuming. Bedford Gardens, a 650-unit apartment complex off Bedford Avenue and Ross Street, first opened ...

Living throughout Northern Brooklyn my entire life, I have already witnessed how seemingly distant environmental issues have already impacted everyday life. Hurricanes have become stronger, and more ...

Across the newly-built counter of a recently-opened cafe in Ridgewood, Sanam wonders out loud about gentrification. It was clear that the neighborhood was changing. A decade ago you wouldn’t have ...

“We want our space to feel like your friend’s living room,” Tobly McSmith told me about his decision to open a day and night coffee shop on the edge of Bushwick and Bed-Stuy called High & Dry. The ...

A Trinidadian street vendor must decide whether to save his estranged father; another documentary about the search for the reclusive creator of Bitcoin; a recently split couple having to pretend to ...

It was Pride Weekend and Jacob Chen was just another of the thousands of people waiting to get into “Alegria Pride 2023,” where presale tickets had gone for at least $120 each and some went as high as ...

Over recent years, grocers, both big and small, have flocked to the Bushwick area, leaving a plethora of options. But not all Bushwick grocery stores are created equal, which is why we deployed our ...

In most cases, our phones can feel like a permanent secondary character in our lives. In “Little Boxes,” a movie that had its world premiere at the Bushwick Film Festival last month, writer and ...

The building is almost a hundred years old – a tower of stone called Gottscheer Hall that, in October, will celebrate its centenary in the neighborhood. The occasion will mark a feat of continued ...

When walking into the recently-opened Saint Michel Cafe and Bakery, over on Irving Avenue, it can feel like you’re stepping into a modern art gallery. The wall is covered with iconic New York ...

On a fateful day in the frigid cold of a recent December, Miles Kirsch decided to start pouring out cups of tea — oolong, green and herbal chrysanthemum — in Maria Hernandez Park. “It was one of the ...