Monthly Archives: April 2007

[ April 30, 2007; 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ]  YIN YANG YOGA offers donation-based community classes every Monday evening at 7:30 pm, and on the second Sunday of the month (third Sunday in May in recognition of Mother’s Day). These open classes will be available to all students, regardless if you have previously taken or purchased classes (does not count toward class card [...]

Bedford-Stuyvesant knows edgy, so it is no surprise that Mr. Cleon Cummings, a fashion designer who has been living in Bed-Stuy for 7 years, decided to open his own boutique, Debonaire, to showcase his line of shoes and handbags and provide image consultations and beauty makeovers to the fashion-conscious set. Opened in December 2005 [...]

Increasingly, restaurants are recognizing that many residents are looking for high-quality fare, and several, like Brook’s Valley Cafe, are providing the type of food that we crave. I had heard a lot about this restaurant located on Tompkins Avenue near Hancock, but I got my first taste of the place this past weekend.
As soon [...]

On the corner of Nostrand and Greene there is a colorful mural that salutes the lives and work of women who have been catalysts for change. At the bottom of the mural there is the title “When Women Pursue Justice”.
The mural includes several well-known woman leaders such as Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman [...]

Question:� Who gets to decide how a community� honors its heroes? The community? The city? The State? � The answer may depend� on who you talk to within and without the communnity.� Also, it may� � depend on one’s personal view of that community.� What do you think? Let’s see!
Facts-1:� � There is [...]

I’ve been on a search for attractive (or at least semi-attractive) and affordable housing in Bed-Stuy since I arrived here. Many developments are attractive OR affordable but never both. I’ve tried to focus my search on housing for sale rather than rentals, and this has made the search quite difficult.

Then came The Pool. [...]

  Clifton Place Daffodils, Bed-Stuy

On Tompkins Avenue nestled between Hancock Street and Jefferson Avenue is an exciting home store named Ibo Landing. The owner, Achuziam Maha, is a delightful woman who made a name for herself when she opened this store in 2003.
Achuziam and her mother, Monica Rose, were in the store the day that I stopped by. [...]