Is New York City's plan for a new school in Greenpoint safe? There are skeptics.

Officials say the site for a new elementary school in Brooklyn is safe, but some are skeptical because of lingering ...

A Swampy New York City Neighborhood Could Get a $146 Million Upgrade

A housing and infrastructure plan has been proposed to address longstanding problems in the Hole, a poor and flood-prone area ...
NBC New York

Brooklyn neighborhood next to join mayor's trash revolution

Mayor Eric Adams is inducting a new borough into his "trash revolution," a plan slowly rolled out across New York City to containerize garbage and combat the city's longstanding rat crisis. A new ...
The Times of Israel

A growing Hebrew school may augur a new era for Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood

Though it borders the Hasidic hub of Williamsburg, the north Brooklyn community was never known for its Jewish population - ...

Notoriously violent Brooklyn neighborhood pushes ‘police free zone’

Community members replaced police from noon to 6 p.m. on Mother Gaston Boulevard between Sutter and Pitkin avenues starting ...
Crain's New York Business

City aims to build 5,000 homes, upgrade infrastructure in notorious flood-prone outer borough neighborhood

The city plans to spend more than $146 million to fix up one of its most infamous neighborhoods — a flood-prone stretch of Brooklyn and Queens commonly known as "The Hole" — with up to 5,000 new homes ...
Observer

Under the Bridge, Beyond the Gloss: DUMBO’s Art Scene Defies Its Gentrified Image

The neighborhood is home to more than 170 artist studios and 20 galleries, Ariel Willmott, cultural affairs director for the ...