The story: The East Brooklyn Savings Bank was founded in 1860. Like most local banks of this period, it was started by area businessmen and merchants as a place where they could conveniently park ...

The New York City Department of Environmental Protection poured concrete over a community-built goldfish pond, citing safety concerns, much to the disappointment of its Brooklyn neighborhood. By Remy ...

Bedford-Stuyvesant has an aural fixation. For well over a month, residents of the Brooklyn neighborhood have been slowly driven batty by a shrill and steady high-pitched noise of unknown origin. It ...

Speak the words Bedford-Stuyvesant and you’re bound to inspire more than a few visions of drug dealers and danger. Others, less aware of the area’s darker past, hear Mos Def and Biggie Smalls, both of ...

A mosque in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood may get a new building with some affordable senior housing on top of it. The development team’s proposal calls for a 93,837-square-foot building ...

For those who don’t know about the Bedford-Stuyvesant subsection Ocean Hill here are the facts: Ocean Hill is a subsection of Bedford-Stuyvesant in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Founded in ...

A bar by any other name but Weeksville would suit many Bedford-Stuyvesant residents just fine. That became crystal clear when representatives of a new hotel coming to the neighborhood early next year ...