Cops are looking for a group of men who attacked and robbed a sanitation worker in East New York early Wednesday morning. Authorities say that at 1:40 pm on March 10, two male DSNY sanitation employees, aged 42 and 43, were in uniform and collecting garbage and recycling on their route when they were approached by three unknown men, who exited a red Chrylser 300 driven by another man, in the vicinity of Milford Street and Pitkin Avenue. The suspects approached the 42-year-old employee and hit him throughout his body with a baseball bat and golf club. One of the suspects pulled out a knife and the group took the victim’s cellphone. The 43-year-old employee, who was not injured, came to the victim’s aid and was allegedly menaced…
10 Story Building Opens in Brooklyn As Part of the Massive ReZoning in East New York
It was recently announced that the Linwood Park Apartments, a new affordable rental building in Brooklyn’s East New York neighborhood, has officially opened to residents. The building, which includes supportive housing for formerly homeless families, is one of the first affordable buildings to open in New York City since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic …
How one urban farm is breaking down barriers to healthy food
For over a decade during the Great Recession, Linda Goode Bryant gathered research and edited segments for an independent documentary about the global food crisis, which had pushed prices so high that people with limited income faced serious barriers to access to healthy food. After reviewing hours of film shot across the world depicting the nutrition challenges facing the urban poor, she put the camera down and turned the computer off. “What kind of world do we live in that people have to eat mud pies in order to survive?” she asked herself. That’s when the idea for Project Eats was born. Today, Project Eats creates and maintains networks of urban farms in …