“People are freaking out, and I don’t blame them,” state Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon told the Brooklyn Eagle on Monday. As residents of Brooklyn Heights vacillate between outrage and panic, the city’s DOT has begun to analyze the feasibility of a plan put forth by community groups that might save the landmarked Promenade from being […]
A blowout loss in Newark, N.J, over the weekend fueled the St. Francis Brooklyn’s men’s basketball team to its latest victory here in the Heights. “We were stoked to play, we couldn’t wait to play,” sophomore guard Jalen Jordan admitted following the Terriers’ gritty 75-69 victory over UMass-Lowell Tuesday night in front of 518 fans […]
WASHINGTON— At an Oval Office gathering earlier this year, President Donald Trump began touting his administration’s new real estate investment program, which offers massive tax breaks to developers who invest in downtrodden American communities. He then turned to one of the plan’s strongest supporters. “Ivanka, would you like to say something?” Trump asked his daughter. […]