Inez Barron Archives - Brooklyn Eagle

To increase diversity at specialized high schools, City Council greenlights new task force

November 4 | Meaghan McGoldrick

The City Council has authorized the creation of a task force to...

Once-dilapidated East NY courthouse now aims to bring cops and neighbors closer

October 24 | Noah Goldberg

The NYPD opened up a first-of-its-kind community center in...

$Stephen Levin is one of nine Brooklyn councilmembers scoring 100 percent in a scorecard released on March 8 by the New York League of Conservation Voters. He is shown above congratulating Mayor Bill de Blasio at the signing of a bill prohibiting the use of fracking products in the city. File photo courtesy of Levin’s office$

Brooklyn councilmembers graded greenest in city

March 11 | Mary Frost

Brooklyn members of the New York City Council are the greenest in...

This is the design for affordable-housing development 461 Alabama Ave. in East New York. Rendering via the city Department of Housing Preservation and Development

Housing development for formerly homeless gets City Council nod

February 28 | By Lore Croghan

An East New York affordable-housing development for formerly homeless people moved...