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A JUST RESTORATION: The Magnolia Tree Earth Center of Bedford-Stuyvesant received a facelift courtesy of the New York City Justice Corps, a program operated by the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation serving formerly incarcerated youth ages 18- 24. A team of some 25 Justice Corps members retiled floors and bathroom, carpeted and repainted the Washington Carver Gallery as well as designed, created and painted a mural in the backyard. Now Justice Corps are continuing their work in the site...

FOR PLANNING PURPOSES FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK PRESIDENT DUDLEY TO VISIT NATION’S FIRST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, BEDFORD STUYVESANT RESTORATION CORPORATION

Last month, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation celebrated its third annual graduation for the In School Youth (ISY) program, an initiative dedicated to the development of our young people. Each year, we take a moment to acknowledge the hard work and accomplishments of some 70 program participants. The event was held in the Skylight Art Gallery at Restoration where parents, friends, program staff, internship hosts and other key stakeholders were all in attendance. Of the 35 juniors who...

New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. today announced his support for the creation of a new Business Improvement District (BID) for Bedford Stuyvesant in central Brooklyn. The new Gateway BID will include properties along Fulton Street between Classon and Troy Avenues and along Nostrand Avenue between Halsey Street and Atlantic Avenue.

Brooklyn-based Black History Month tours put a new focus on bringing more business to New York's other African American cultural center. NBC's Sonia Narang reports. watch the video

RESTORATION PLAZA, the rambling headquarters of the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, takes up several buildings, including one that was once an abandoned milk-bottling plant, on a full square block south of Fulton Street... full story at NY Times

Energy and food prices are skyrocketing. Some people are forgoing necessities, simply because they costs too much. Some black communities have been hit particularly hard because residents pay a larger percentage of their incomes on energy costs. Jori Lewis looks at the reasons and how some homeowners are adjusting... full audio and transcript at PBS

Edmon Braithwaite must be onto something. After a sometimes rocky year, Braithwaite's One Caribbean Radio (620 AM), a part-time station with studios in Restoration Plaza in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, is rapidly becoming the destination of choice for politicians eager to reach the city's 3-million-plus Caribbean-American community... full story at NY Times

Customers lined up outside the new neighborhood restaurant in Bedford Stuyvesant. Inside, the Applebee's Neighborhood Bar and Grill was packed. The grand opening of the restaurant brings more than just moderately priced food to the area. It also brings jobs. Ninety-nine percent of them are all from here; a number of them live across the street. Most of them walk to work," says Applebee's owner Zane Tankel. "You can't be in a neighborhood without neighborhood people here."