It was a 70-degree day in mid-March of 2010 when Edwin Perez rode his cherry red Can-Am Spyder from a self-storage locker in Windsor Terrace up to the tree-lined brownstone streets of Park Slope, the place he conducted business, the place he referred to as “the office.” At 2:35, the well-built 32-year-old turned the Spyder, Read More
Flocks of 21- to 35-year-olds moved to Brooklyn in 2008, as the condo boom gave way to a renters’ market, reports The Brooklyn Eagle.
Almost half of the new renters in the first quarter of this year were between 21 to 25 years old, and 93 percent were under 35. The typical renter in Read More
When I first saw the flyers all over the telephone poles in my neighborhood announcing a community meeting to debate the proposed opening of a transient home for battered women, I didn’t think: “I should go, to stand up for my less fortunate sisters.” I didn’t even worry: “Uh-oh, how will this affect my bourgeois-aspirational Read More
