Rising cost and business competition challenge Sunset Park entrepreneurs
As Sunset Park is attracting more new and old business owners to the area, the increased competition is causing some local entrepreneurs are struggling to stay open.
Combating Tech’s Gender Gap with Better Training for Teens
The Greenpoint YMCA launches a pilot program that will target tech-saavy teenage girls; hoping to help decrease a chronic gender gap in tech and innovation.
Rent Business in Bushwick
Bushwick is a neighborhood in rapid transition, where working young professionals are driving up rent prices while long-time residents are fighting to remain in the few affordable housing units left in the market.
Rising rent makes small business harder
Rising rents on Sunset Park’s 8th Avenue squeeze entrepreneurs as they struggle to keep their businesses open.
Elmhurst is One Step Closer to a New LIRR Station
MTA approved its new Capital Program, which includes a $40-million investment into restoring the LIRR station in Elmhurst. The station still needs state approval but local businesses and residents are already thinking about its possible arrival.
Bushwick Non-Profit for Homeless Faces Eviction with $ 3.9 Million Purchase Price
A Bushwick-based NGO, Sure We Can, also the only licensed, homeless-friendly can collection center in New York, now faces the problem of being asked by its landlord to spend millions to buy the factory in which it operates, or face eviction.
Greenpoint: Transitioning
Community members in Greenpoint band together to preserve culture and community
Greenpoint Residents Continue to Push for Better Health Survey
Residents and activists express ongoing health concerns they attribute to poor environmental conditions in Greenpoint. A new proposal for a comprehensive health survey would attempt to make sense of a complex web of complaints.
