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New York Times article “News Erupts, and So Does a Web Debut” discusses the growing trend in journalism of web publications created to cater to a specific area of the news, only covering issues and events that fall within that area.
 The primary example of [...]

Spike Lee’s When the Levees Broke is a four-part documentary on the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the city and people of New Orleans. Interspersed with intense, emotion-provoking imagery, the documentary shows the aftermath of the natural disaster from a point of view that was by and large overlooked when the events were happening directly: New [...]

According to various news sources (including Curbed and  New York Magazine), Brooklyn’s biggest real estate sale of the year was in Gravesend. An 8,200 square foot house known as “Gravesend House” was recently sold for $10,260,000. Yes, those are millions.
This came as a complete shock to me personally, because I live in a very different kind of Gravesend: a [...]

South Brooklyn’s Gravesend neighborhood has had a history of unsuccessful businesses long before the country was in a recession. The most recent casualty was the gas station that operated on the corner of 86th street and Stillwell Avenue, which was shut down last month. The former station is now a mostly empty lot.
Until Friday, that [...]

Some stories are too bizarre not to publish. The following is one of them:
 
An elderly woman, a self-described “granny,” prided herself on a massive jewelry collection which she had spent a lifetime accumulating. One day, this woman was walking around Midtown East, and she happened to be carrying all of this jewelry with her in a [...]