Author Archives: Lisa M. Collins

No more crossing six lanes of traffic to get to the entrance. More work will be done in coming years. Read on: http://parkslope.patch.com/articles/fourth-avenue-ninth-street-eastside-entrance-opens-after-40-years#photo-9178284

The Barclays Arena is slated to open this fall, and already, new restaurants have opened and rents have skyrocketed, as landlords look to cash in

The blog Brooklyn Before Now has a cool account of a current Cobble Hill resident who found evidence of her great, great, great-grandmother who lived

The Real Deal has a piece about new development projects slated in Cobble Hill that are bringing more Manhattan-level pricing here. Read on: http://therealdeal.com/blog/2012/02/23/new-townhouses-are-rising-in-cobble-hill-with-manhattan-pricing/

Pre-K is a luxury, not required by the state. So in city schools were there’s a bulge of kids in kindergarten and older grades, what

The city’s homeless shelter population hit an all-time high of 40,000 this past fall, according to The New York Times, and Bloomberg looked to impose

Still more coming down the pipe as the nation hopes to curb obesity by targeting vending machines at schools, though many school leaders say selling

Check out ArtCat blog for schedules of Dumbo art shows, as well as gallery shows across the city. This week The Architecture of Space in

Wow, for a mortgage payment of $92,000/month, this lovely 9-bedroom, 4-bath townhome on 1st Place can be yours. The listing is on Trulia, and we

Very interesting story in Beta Beat about the rapid growth of some digital firms in Dumbo, who are scrambling to find qualified workers for their

Rents have skyrocketed in Brooklyn in the past decade, as we all know, and now reports are coming out showing that per-square-foot prices in some