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Shopping For Change In Crown Heights

By Patrick Wall
Like many Brooklyn neighborhoods, it is seeing a surge in new businesses and young residents. Do the doubts about gentrification run deeper there?


Lunch At Junior's: Reputation & Reality In Today’s Brooklyn

By Jake Mooney
What does it mean to be "Brooklyn"—and how has that changed as the borough went from not to hot? Chapter one of "Brooklyn: The Borough Behind The Brand" visits a local icon to find some answers.


Living On The Edge: East New York & Bay Ridge Go Off Script

By Jake Mooney
Chapter four of "Brooklyn: The Borough Behind The Brand" visits East New York, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst and other neighborhoods whose story over the past 20 years differs from the standard narrative of Brooklyn's growth.


Finding The Borough Behind The Brand: Brooklyn Today

By Jake Mooney
From Neil Simon to Spike Lee and the Dodgers to Jay-Z, Brooklyn has long enjoyed an international reputation. The new issue of City Limits magazine looks at how that rep matches reality.


Small Businesses On The Edge In Bay Ridge

By Melanie Lefkowicz
In an excerpt from the City Limits magazine investigation of small businesses in New York, a look at the holdouts along increasingly chain-ganged 86th Street.


The Life And Death Of The Mom-n-Pop

By City Limits
Small businesses help make New York's neighborhoods. But as the next issue of City Limits reports, economic trends and policy decisions are threatening their survival.


When Brooklyn Projects Go Down, What Will Go Up?

By Eileen Markey
NYCHA's using community input to plan for what to build after three public housing towers are demolished. But the plan means a loss of public housing, and it confronts deep distrust from some tenants.


City Begins Gowanus Canal Cleanup

By Kelly Virella
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection reached its first milestone in its efforts to clean up the Gowanus Canal Monday, when it shut down for repairs the 100-year-old tunnel designed to aerate and deodorize the smelly, polluted waterway.


A Score Of Companies Could Share Bill For Gowanus Cleanup

By Kieran K. Meadows and Mike Reicher
The Brooklyn canal's Superfund designation has triggered a hunt for the corporations responsible for more than a century of pollution.


Tough Love In The Big City

By E.R. Shipp
Kids in New York have often had a lot to fear. So how’d we end up afraid of them?
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