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Category: News

Would you move to Buffalo for a bigger closet?

This week, Forbes came out with its America's Most Affordable Cities list.  Unsurprisingly, Brooklyn, and nowhere within biking distance of…

Here’s a chance to yell at your elected officials about the G train

Now that we've thankfully escaped one last snowstorm and we know that Fort Tilden will be open, everyone is making…

Thursday lunchtime linkage

Grandpa-aged Mets pitching coach Dan Warthen apologizes for "Chinaman" joke [WSJ] Want to vote on the ugliest building in Brooklyn?…

New app, Acorns, invests your small change in totally infallible stock market

The stock market: America's ever-expanding and completely infallible engine of wealth. You might think that it's exclusively the province of…

Brooklyn’s median rent now just $210 less than Manhattan’s

Remember when you moved to Brooklyn because it was cheap? Pepperidge Farm remembers. They also remember when a massive rezoning,…

Interactive map turns the city’s 311 complaints into opinionated cartoons

New York is a city of kvetchers, but that's alright, there's a lot here to kvetch about. Fare hikes, real…

Wednesday lunchtime linkage

Ethnic food restaurants try to navigate the Health Department bureaucracy [Open City] Maybe 3D printing isn't our glorious future yet…

Get a $750 fun money grant for your compost program idea

Composting! It's all the rage these days with the hip young environmental set. Everyone's getting into it nowadays, from commuters…

Coney Island could have a waterpark in its future

If there's one thing beach-side amusement area Coney Island lacks, it's a place to cool off from the relentless summer…

Tuesday lunchtime linkage

Mos Def goes to Cape Town [IOL] Parents of special ed kids stand up to charter school bullies [DNA Info]…