Day: October 5, 2015

Brooklyn, Gentrification

Housing is sure to come to East New York, but will middle-class jobs for current residents follow?

Community leaders in  East New York are demanding that the city protect and invest in the neighborhood’s industrial businesses—a source of much-needed middle class employment—as part of their plan to rezone the area.   East New York’s Industrial Business Zone (IBZ), which is currently home to 45 industrial and manufacturing […]

Tech

Meet the New York Tech Startup that’s Changing Parental Leave

When Mark Egerman’s wife, Alisha, gave birth to their first daughter, Shirin, in late May, he took six weeks off from work to spend time with his new family. Egerman, co-founder of Cover, a New York-based restaurant mobile payment startup, also wanted to show his employees that it was okay […]