Enough already with the coffee shops, and other insights from a Crown Heights lifer

… moving in slowly and new businesses specifically coffee shops and bars popping up … Around what year did … pricesaffected your family … Besides my favorite local shops closing down and friends being displaced I find myself … For instance there are a few still standing beauty supply shops Downtown Brooklyn on Fulton Avenue that I have to …

By Virginia K. Smith |April 30, 2015 - 8:59AM
Come to the Rockaways for affordable apartments and hyper-local eateries, but beware of free-floating sand

… to get a feel for a place is by reading a neighborhoods blog In our  Confessions of a Neighborhood Blogger  series we speak to the writers who chronicle the … happenings of their chosen slice of the city  … Updated 32615 500pm  … The Rockaways have not been far from the …

By Virginia K. Smith |March 25, 2015 - 8:59AM
NYC photographer captures city buildings in decay

… explains why there is beauty in decay what they tell us about the history of New York and why the term  ruin porn is … photographing them for the historical record … For me its about documenting these places before they are gone but if I … are in ruins and people are suffering When you talk about Detroit it really applies  but in NYC these are the …

By Sharon Krum |March 19, 2015 - 11:59AM