Brooklyn Mammal has had a good several months since we initially profiled them back in October 2009. Since then, Adam Lesser and Michael Miritello, the two behind this Red Hook-based sustainable wood shop, have sorted out several aspects of their business and its ongoing plan, but that doesn't mean that they still don't face hiccups in the realization of their new enterprise.

The Brooklyn Food Coalition is a grassroots partnership of individuals and groups who strive to give an effective voice to all those who live in or serve Brooklyn and wish to achieve a just and sustainable system for tasty, healthy, and affordable food.

There’s not much that will get me out of bed before 7 AM other than food, or more specifically, a market. Growing up in San Francisco, from the age of 10 onwards, I would religiously get up in the wee Saturday hours to drive down with my mom and neighbor to snag a prime parking spot and the best stuff that the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market had to offer. Besides that, and maybe some early morning plane flights, I wouldn’t be caught dead waking up before the break of day, especially on the weekends.

To a certain subsect of its residence, Taliah Lempert's bicycle paintings and prints are as close to a symbol of Brooklyn as there is. Bold, handcrafted, and diverse, with a slightly imperfect charm, her bicycle portraits are as unique as their riders and ubiquitous as their subjects careening along bike paths and through intersections across the borough.