FORT GREENE — The battle rages on — in song. In the most recent installment of the Mount Prospect Park “Skate Garden” saga — involving an $11 million skateboard facility that is slated to be built in the Brooklyn park — locals used their singing voices as a weapon of choice to demonstrate their opposition […]
NORTH BROOKLYN — The area containing Bedford-Stuyvesant, Williamsburg, DUMBO, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Bushwick, Crown Heights, Clinton Hill and Fort Greene is leading the growth of small businesses in the city, according to “Small Business Dynamism in New York City’s Economic Recovery,” a report issued by the city’s Economic Development Corp. this week. Citywide, “new […]
DOWNTOWN/FORT GREENE — Three illegal smoke shops in the Downtown Brooklyn area have been padlocked within the past two weeks using recently-enacted law enforcement tools, and a giant weed warehouse filled with millions of dollars’ worth of cannabis products was busted over the Memorial Day weekend in Fort Greene. The businesses were shut down thanks […]