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    Black-Owned Father-Son Real Estate Title Insurance Biz Achieves $2 Billion in Transactions

    by Fern GillespieA Black family-owned real estate title insurance firm with a history in Brooklyn, headed by founder and president Osei Rubie and his son and partner Nadir Rubie, recently achieved a milestone of $2 billion in closed real estate transactions with residential, commercial,...
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    Challenges Facing Brooklyn’s Black Realtors

    By Fern GillespieRecently, the New York Times published “Selling Houses While Black,” an overview of problems facing Black real estate agents. According to the National Association of Realtors, which didn’t permit Black members until 1961, approximately 6 percent of real estate agents and brokers...
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    Flatbush-Caton Market Redesigned into Caton Flats

    As it is occurring in many Brooklyn communities, the Flatbush community’s main street which...
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    New York’s Undeveloped City-Owned Land

    New York City’s shortage of affordable housing could be solved in a matter of...
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    Cumbo to Armory Developer at Council Hearing: No Deal for Market-Rate Condos

    CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — The developer chosen to transform Crown Heights' Bedford-Union Armory, along...
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    Major Findings from Comptroller’s Report on Bed-Stuy

    The number of jobs in Bedford-Stuyvesant increased by 45 percent since the end of...
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    Permits Filed for 375 Stuyvesant Avenue, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn

    By Nikolai Fedak Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy doesn’t always see the best executions of infill development, but...
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    Cracks in the System: Dorla and Erma Alleyne’s Story

      Three years ago, Our Time Press began publishing stories of Central Brooklyn property owners...
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    A Crack Widens in New York City’s Real Estate System as the Victimized scream “Enough is Enough” to the Mayor and...

    Exclusive to Our Time Press Homeowners of Central Brooklyn are facing destruction to their properties...
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    Asbestos Suspected at Bedford-Union Armory

    By Akosua K. Albritton A preservationist and an environmental justice attorney, contend there is a...
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    BAN Brings People Together to Solve Social Ills

    By Akosua K. Albritton On June 5, 2017, the Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network (BAN) held a...
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    Six Firms Designated as Minority- and Women-owned Business Enterprises to Build 460 Units of Affordable Housing

    On Friday, January 13th Richard Buery, Deputy Mayor for Strategic Policy Initiatives, conducted a...
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    Attorney General Eric Schneiderman Extends Homeowner Protection Program By $20 Million

    By Kelly Mena Yesterday at the Cornerstone Baptist Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant, New York State Attorney...
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    East New York/Cypress Hills Shouts “No” to Aggressive Speculators

    By Margot McKenzie Council member Espinal, Public Advocate Letitia James, state Senator Martin Dilan, Assemblywoman...
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