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Steiner Studios has scored another big one: The brainiacs from Carnegie Mellon University are bringing a new techie master's degree program to its Brooklyn Navy Yard film and TV production complex.  … Full Article

At Tuesday night’s meeting of the 84th Precinct Community Council at the precinct house on Gold Street, P.O. Donavan Hunt was named Cop of the Month. … Full Article

Carnegie Mellon University will start a master's program focusing on technology and media in New York City. The Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Mellon says its Integrative Media Program will open in August 2015 at Steiner Studios in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. … Full Article

American institutions of higher education have long been considered a path to progress – a college education is the first step along the road to the American Dream. … Full Article

As developers set their sights on the Watchtower's remaining Brooklyn holdings, it's high time we tallied the group's recent sales. … Full Article

Developer Shelly Listokin's plans to turn a former DUMBO Watchtower building into condos have cleared a significant hurdle – by winning city Landmarks Preservation Commission approval to add two floors to the top of 200 Water St. and rebuild its back facade. … Full Article

Retired judges and a number of law professors have submitted legal briefs in support of the reinstatement of Manhattan federal Judge Shira Scheindlin to the stop-and-frisk cases. … Full Article

When Nick Allard took over as the president and dean of Brooklyn Law School in 2012, he was determined to expand on Brooklyn’s entrepreneurial trend and expressed hopes to create business boot camps that would allow law students to assist Brooklyn’s start-up business owners in forming corpo … Full Article

Jehovah, hear our prayer! Eager developers have been trying to convince the Jehovah's Witnesses to sell the biggest bulldozed-and-ready-to-build development site in DUMBO – for a princely sum. … Full Article

A retired sales executive and former U.S. Navy navigator in Vietnam, writer James Whitfield Thomson was not always on the path to becoming an author. … Full Article