Why a former Democracy Now war correspondent opened the Starr Bar in Bushwick

The neighborhood is called Williamsburg, East Williamsburg or Bushwick, depending on who you ask.

“I’m not going to be a NIMBY about it,” says one local bar owner.

The MTA’s top brass met with the public and elected officials at Bed-Stuy’s Marcy Avenue Armory on Thursday night to field the public’s questions and present two main approaches to scheduling L train closures during repairs to the Canarsie tubes that will start in 2019

By Katarina Hybenova, Maria Gotay, Jeremy Nguyen, Frances Gill, Emilie Ruscoe, Ashley Mathus and Loren DiBlasi