When he read the news one morning in early September, Ofer Cohen picked up the phone and called key players in Brooklyn real estate. Cohen, 46, the founder and president of TerraCRG, a Brooklyn-focused real estate advisory and brokerage firm, knew immediately that the borough could make a strong case […]
Barrow’s Intense is a unique yellow ginger liqueur elixir that goes down smooth but finishes with a sweet zest. Each piece of ginger that goes into a batch is washed, cut and bottled by hand in the Brooklyn-based distillery. Production is not the only unique approach CEO Josh Morton has […]
Five months after the passage of the de Blasio administration’s first neighborhood rezoning, investment in East New York’s housing market has increased. Both residents and realtors have taken an interest in selling homes in the neighborhood now that the area is “on the map” after extensive debate over it’s rezoning […]
In today’s New York, economic development has become almost synonymous with gentrification, with communities often fearing new projects will mean displacement of long-time residents. That’s the current vibe in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, where the city plans to revive the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal by the end of 2016. The city plans to […]
Residents of East New York continue to mobilize against a city-sponsored rezoning plan for their neighborhood focused on whether the result will be the displacement of they and their neighbors. The de Blasio Administration has failed to win a single endorsement from any community groups. The growing opposition was on […]
Reconnect Café is like any other café that has opened recently in the quickly gentrifying neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Bagels are doled out daily and the café features a free wi-fi connection and seating area for guests. The only difference between this café and the others is that this one […]
Family pride is tied close to locality at Belmont Metals, according to Michael Henning, the company’s vice president of marketing. The company has been on the same plot of East New York land since it was founded in 1896, at which point it was his great-great grandfather’s backyard. […]
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 […]
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.