Menachem Stark 120 S 4th St Williamsburg
Mystery Deepens Around Murdered Landlord’s Unstable ‘Burg Building
Strange real estate happenings in Williamsburg: A contractor has discovered the Department of Buildings has no plans on file for the luxury rental at 120 South 4th Street that experienced an emergency vacate order last month because of structural problems. Or, to be more precise, the DOB does have plans on file — but they are for another building.

gang map
Map via New York Daily News

Map of Brooklyn Gang Turf Correlates With Map of Gun Violence
Despite pols and media blaming gun violence on terrorism, at least in New York gangs and not terrorists are responsible for the largest percentage of gun-related fatalities. While recent media coverage of gang violence has ebbed compared to the proliferation of articles on mass shootings in recent weeks, gang-related crime has by no means gone away.

Brooklyn Celebrities' Homes
Brooklyn’s 9 Biggest Celebrity Home Sales of 2015
If you were a celebrity, where would you want to live? Brooklyn is a nice little hideaway, and a couple mil goes much farther here than in, say, Manhattan. In 2015, Nets player Thaddeus Young joined the swelling ranks of celebrities who call Brooklyn home, while Girls star Zosia Mamet hightailed it back to Manhattan after a short stint in Bushwick.

Dinanda Nooney
Brooklyn Academy of Music in Fort Greene, May 30, 1978. Photo by Dinanda Nooney

See What Brooklyn Looked Like in the 1970s (Photos)
Before Brooklyn was known for being a hip brand and cultural hub, it was known for its blight, its working-class authenticity, its empty streets and its crime. Photographer Dinanda Nooney was known mainly for her collection of gelatin-print portraits of people in their Brooklyn homes. But Nooney also photographed outdoors. While her intimate photos of local families, bedrooms, kitchens and parlors paint a nuanced portrait of the borough in its disco era, her photos of backyards and streets better reveal Brooklyn’s realness during the time.

El Atoradero Chef Denisse Lina Chavez Food
Left: Photo of El Atoradero sign from Brownstoner tipster. Right: Chef Denisse Lina Chavez above a plate of mole poblano. Photos via El Atoradero

Beloved Bronx Mexican Eatery El Atoradero Reopens in Prospect Heights Tonight
The newest Brooklyn transplant is beloved Mexican restaurant El Atoradero, which opens to the public tonight in Prospect Heights after being priced out of the Bronx this summer. In her first venture down from New York’s northernmost borough, beloved Bronx chef Denisse Lina Chavez is relocating her homestyle Pueblan cuisine to 708 Washington Avenue.

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