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Welcome to the new Brooklyn The Borough!

By Nicole Brydson

Welcome to the new Brooklyn The Borough! We’ve undergone a makeover during the last week to improve and expand our content offerings. Now we’d like to invite bloggers from all over Brooklyn to have their voice resonate in the borough by adding their RSS feed to our new central hub for Brooklyn news: Boroughing. If you’d like us to feature your blog here and also have the opportunity to expand your readership via our partnership with the Huffington Post, please email us your RSS feed URL and a little bit about what and where you write about.

Please also take a moment to fill out our reader survey.  Over the last seven months, you’ve gotten to know us, and now it’s time for us to get to know you.  This information will be used to target local, small business advertising to each region of Brooklyn in order to support our unique and independent local reporting.  Take me to the Reader Survey

A Day in the Life of Coney Island

By Nicole Brydson

Last Saturday, the sun was shining, the bands were playing and the kids were pumping adrenaline like never before. With the forthcoming determination on the future of Coney Island in mind, here is a slide show collection of Coney Island moments.

Tracy Westmoreland’s ‘Manhattans’ Alive – For Now

By Nicole Brydson

Tracy Westmoreland called us with an update on his the ongoing saga of his bar, the Manhattans, in Prospect Heights.

Under Threat of Closing, Manhattans Bar Seeks New Investor

By Nicole Brydson

Must all good things come to an end? The English proverb, it seems, should not apply to dive bar aficionado Tracy Westmoreland yet again. With the economy in shambles, the main investor in Mr. Westmoreland’s Prospect Heights bar, the Manhattans, has started to get cold feet.

Super Fight Over Gowanus Superfund! Bloomberg Sides With Developer; Whole Foods Bows Out

By Nicole Brydson

At first sight it’s obvious that the Gowanus Canal is filthy. Yet, residents continue to congregate around it, canoe across it, build vessels to tour it, and wonder if its beauty will ever again surpass its usefulness as an industrial center. Efforts to revitalize expansive industrial lots in the area have advanced, with bars, restaurants and music venues opening along Second and Third Avenues. Artists work in nearby studios, and the BKLYN Yard, a venue alongside the canal, draws young people from all over the city to afternoon dance parties, barbecues and swap meets on summer weekends. However, over 150 years of heavy industrial activity combined with sewage and storm water run-off, and its proximity to factories and gas refineries have made the canal a site of controversy since the Environmental Protection Agency announced in April that the waterway is a candidate for the Superfund National Priorities List.

Anything But Bland: Creative ‘Arsenal’ Opens in Williamsburg

By Susannah Gruder

Tucked into the fourth floor of the Armory’s edifice is The Arsenal, a multipurpose loft run by fashion designer Bob Bland, who has turned the ancient space into one her clients may customize to fit their modern creative and professional needs.

Happy Fourth of July From Jimmy Carter

By Nicole Brydson

Thirty years later, on our Independence Day Jimmy Carter’s “Crisis of Confidence” speech is still apt. The televised warning to Americans was given just shy of 30 years ago on July 15, 1979 and quickly derided by republicans for attacking American values, government and way of life.