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The lack of affordable industrial space in some sections of Brooklyn is impeding one local business's expansion. Brooklyn Brewery owner Steve Hindy, who started leasing a property on North 11th Street in Williamsburg 12 years ago, tells the Times that

A few weeks ago a reader told us that the iron gate outside her Crown Heights house had been stolen, and this weekend the Times has a piece on how the same crime happened recently in Clinton Hill. Gates were

While plenty of parents of St. Ann's students have expressed their opinion about the impending relocation of a Federal probation center to a building in which the school leases space and which abuts its lower and middle schools, there had

A $17.3 million renovation of the Strand Theater on Fulton Street will result in new facilities for cultural organizations Bric Arts and Urban Glass. The Economic Development Corp. and Dept. of Cultural Affairs are overseeing the revamp, which will be

Adams Street between Willoughby and Tillary has a notoriously bad track record in terms of illegal parking and bicycle lane infringement (as the two posts we've done on it attest). So we were happy to see some incremental improvement as

This three-unit brownstone condo at 83 Halsey Street in Bedford Stuyvesant just hit the market last week. There are three units, two 725-square-footers priced at $425,000 and on 971-square-foot place priced at $550,000. It's a beautiful building from the outside

The GOTD submissions keep rolling in...We bought our place in 2004 and have been DIY renovating ever since. The garden is one of the first things we tackled as we wanted to get everything in and out through the house

NEW YORK, July 21 (newratings.com) - Analysts at Robert W Baird maintain their "outperform" rating on Manpower Inc (ticker: MAN), while reducing their estimates for the company. The target price has been reduced from $82 to $75. [more]

LONDON, July 21 (newratings.com) - Analysts at JP Morgan reiterate their "overweight" rating on Croda International Plc (ticker: CRDA-GBX), while raising their estimates for the company. The target price has been reduced from 815p to 795p. [more]

LONDON, July 21 (newratings.com) - Analyst Barrie Cornes of Panmure Gordon maintains his "buy" rating on Aviva Plc (ticker: AV.-GBX), while reducing his estimates for the company. The 12-month target price has been reduced from 854p to 803p. [more]

LONDON, July 21 (newratings.com) - Analysts at JP Morgan maintain their "overweight" rating on Deutsche Post AG (ticker: DPW-EUR), while reducing their estimates for the company. The 18-month target price has been reduced from €27 to €23.3. [more]

NEW YORK, July 21 (newratings.com) - Analysts at Robert W Baird upgrade KeyCorp (ticker: KEY) from "neutral" to "outperform." The 12-month target price is set to $16. [more]

LONDON, July 21 (newratings.com) - Analyst Franz Hoerl of Erste Bank downgrades voestalpine AG (ticker: VAS) from "buy" to "accumulate," while reducing his estimates for the company. The target price has been reduced from €65 to €44. [more]

LONDON, July 21 (newratings.com) - Analyst Derek J Brown of Seymour Pierce maintains his "buy" rating on Autonomy Corp Plc (ticker: AU.-GBX). The target price has been raised from 1,065p to 1,170p. [more]

NEW YORK, July 21 (newratings.com) - In a research note published on July 18, analyst Brian J White of Collins Stewart maintains his "buy" rating on Amphenol Corp (ticker: APH), while raising his estimates for the company. The target price

NEW YORK, July 21 (newratings.com) - In a research note published on July 18, analysts at Canaccord Adams maintain their "buy" rating on Google Inc (ticker: GOOG). The target price has been reduced to $650. [more]

NEW YORK, July 21 (newratings.com) - In a research note published on July 18, analyst Brian Sozzi of Wall Street Strategies reiterates his "sell" rating on Quiksilver Inc (ticker: ZQK). The target price has been reduced from $9 to $8.

NEW YORK, July 21 (newratings.com) - In a research note published on July 18, analyst Ned Borland of Next Generation Equity Research maintains his "buy" rating on Smith (AO) Corp (ticker: AOS), while raising his estimates for the company. The

LONDON, July 21 (newratings.com) - In a research note published on July 18, analysts at Raymond James maintain their "buy" rating on Fortum OYJ (ticker: FUM1V-EUR), while raising their estimates for the company. The target price has been raised from