Brownsville: Blessed with a Bad Location

The More Things Change the More they Stay the Same
While fancy coffee shops dot many city streets, neither chic restaurants nor glass-covered high rises have made their way into the far edges of Brooklyn. In a neighborhood where boarded windows remind residents of hard times, a little gentrification in Brownsville may not be that [...]

Economic Blues on Pitkin Avenue

Small Businesses Feel the Effects of the Slump in Spending
By 2 pm, Pitkin Communications had only serviced three customers from the moment the cellular phone store opened at 10 am. The customers came in to buy minutes for their cell phones; a transaction that only brought in five percent per card and did not, by [...]

Brownsville, under a different light

Another way to look at Brownsville: