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[0:18] ..." Brooklyn is getting the city's first IKEA thousands of new condominiums and a basketball team transplanted from New Jersey. But the hundred or so people who turned out yesterday morning we're talking about"...

[0:53] ..." always -- applicants Sara Horowitz -- the freelancers union to provide health insurance she says self employed workers face challenges like their tax status retirement funds and other issues whose solutions -- far beyond Brooklyn. Why don't we start seeing. We actually are part of a national movement that can really start doing things and things for ourselves and thanks for society. In the meantime though that cachet of the Borough continues to worry its residents. Paul Demeco a video editor was in the audience. Now it's becoming overpopulated with -- people coming from Manhattan who can afford to pay more money and then you know like for instance of beer doesn't cost four dollars anymore -- six or seven. But no one on the panel offered a solution to the cost of beer in the Borough. Let alone the cost of that. -- WNYC and teacher and V forum was sponsored by the center for an urban future"...

[0:00]" The artists architects and others like them who live in Brooklyn now account for half billion dollars in income a year. Two organizations held a forum yesterday at the -- central library on how to keep the so called creative sector growing. WM IC's Matthew Sherman has more."

[0:18]" Brooklyn is getting the city's first IKEA thousands of new condominiums and a basketball team transplanted from New Jersey. But the hundred or so people who turned out yesterday morning we're talking about a homegrown kind. Just how to encourage the creative sector is a bit of a puzzle in part because it has been so good at solving problems on its own. One of the speakers Scott adkins pounded a writer's room that provides its members with an antidote to loneliness and a place to work outside the small apartments. We see growth constantly I don't advertise it's all word of mouth and we're always -- applicants Sara Horowitz -- the freelancers union to provide health insurance she says self employed workers face challenges like their tax status retirement funds and other issues whose solutions -- far beyond Brooklyn. Why don't we start seeing. We actually are part of a national movement that can really start doing things and things for ourselves and thanks for society. In the meantime though that cachet of the Borough continues to worry its residents. Paul Demeco a video editor was in the audience. Now it's becoming overpopulated with -- people coming from Manhattan who can afford to pay more money and then you know like for instance of beer doesn't cost four dollars anymore -- six or seven. But no one on the panel offered a solution to the cost of beer in the Borough. Let alone the cost of that. -- WNYC and teacher and V forum was sponsored by the center for an urban future and the Brooklyn economic development corporation"

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Creative Brooklynites Gather at Forum

Thu, 6 Mar 2008

The artists, architects and others like them who live in Brooklyn now account for $500 millio in income per year. Two organizations held a forum yesterday at the borough's central library on how to ....

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