Nostrand

Mr. Sung looks past the oranges piled high in front of his family's store to the two green carts half a block away on Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn.

Grocers Fight Green Carts Hilke Schellmann 2011

Other newcomes include Sud Vino e Cucina, an Italian restaurant on Bedford Avenue that opened earlier this year; Dough, a doughnut shop on Franklin Avenue; Cinnamon Girl, an organic café and grocery on Nostrand Avenue; and Brooklyn Stoops, a café on Myrtle Avenue, all of which opened last year.

Bedford-Stuyvesant Steps Up Its Game Melanie Lefkowitz 2011

Shortly after 4 p.m., police were called to the Nostrand Avenue A train station in Brooklyn by a train operator who noticed a body in the subway tunnel about 60 feet from the platform on the southbound track.

Subway Sees Four Deaths in One Day Pervaiz Shallwani 2012

The group takes its name from the classic 1965 Freddie Hubbard recording "The Night of the Cookers" Blue Note, which was recorded at the Club Marchal on Nostrand Avenue and President Street in Crown Heights—one of several jazz clubs that thrived in central Brooklyn in the 1950s and '60s.

Kind of New Martin Johnson 2011

Travelspan, a tiny storefront on Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn's Caribbean Flatbush, featured two ladies behind a counter shielded by bulletproof glass.

Where Locals Know Best Anne Kadet 2011

"We're not immune from the national economy," says John Samuel , a co-owner of Breukelen Cellars, a wine store that opened in March on Nostrand Avenue.

Bedford-Stuyvesant Steps Up Its Game Melanie Lefkowitz 2011

When I was teenager in the late 60s, I was sent by my parents to escort my sister Peggy to the subway station at Fulton and Nostrand in BedStuy, Brooklyn.

David R. Jones, Esq.: 40 Years Later: New York City on the Edge Esq. David R. Jones 2011

I also believed that my grandfather had his own private entrance into the IRT subway station where we dropped him off at the intersection of Flatbush and Nostrand Avenues in Brooklyn.

George Heymont: Rolling Down a River, Drowning in Denial George Heymont 2011

Just down the street at Sista's Place, on Nostrand Avenue, reedman James Spaulding—who played on Hubbard's "Night of the Cookers" recording—was closing his first set with his quartet in front of a full house of fans ranging from tweens to seniors.

Kind of New Martin Johnson 2011

On paired DOT planned BRT routes on Nostrand and Bedford Avenues in Brooklyn and on First and Second Avenues, and on 34th Street the changes to the roadway will be made more permanent and aggressive traffic enforcement is planned.

Joel Epstein: A Bronx Tale About Mass Transit: Take Note, Los Angeles 2010