The county of Kings ranked first in a recently released study by SmartAsset.com on the greatest number of investments in New York county’s local economies. The study scored each New York county on their growth in four categories: local businesses,...
The gentrification of Brooklyn, N.Y., has come to this: For the first time in 116 years, Our Lady of Mount Carmel has been forced to actively recruit men to hoist a four-ton tower on poles and dance it down the...
A Bed-Stuy restaurant that made headlines for serving a $1,900 bottle of Bordeaux that cost more than some local's monthly rent was temporarily shuttered by Health Department inspectors who Click here to view original web page at patch.com
A 19-year-old man was grazed by a bullet in his legs in Brooklyn, and police said Saturday they need help finding out who fired the shot. Police need help identifying this man, who they say shot another man in the...
A woman was in critical condition Sunday after falling four stories from the fire escape at the rear of a building on Halsey Street in Brooklyn on Sunday. She was taken to hospital with serious injuries Click here to...
The Department of City Planning projects the city’s proposed rezoning of Bushwick could lead to an increase of 5,613 units of housing, which includes 1,873 permanently affordable housing units. According to the draft scope, the rezoning could lead to an...
Two men were killed outside a Brooklyn shopping mall early Saturday when their Nissan Altima struck a divider and burned, officials said. Horrified witnesses braved the Click here to view original web page at www.nydailynews.com
Police are investigating after a woman in Brooklyn was shot through her window. The woman says somone knocked on her window on Putnam Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant at about 3:00am Saturday. When she looked out, she says a stranger opened fire.The...
Emergency crews were on the scene of a partial building collapse in Brooklyn Thursday afternoon. Firefighters were called to the unstable home on Belmont Avenue in East New York around 4:00pm. First responders found one side of the two-story structure...
Bushwick's first annual Puerto Rican Day Parade is set to be celebrated this Sunday. The event's community liaison and parade organizer explain how it all came together Click here to view original web page at pix11.com
Cycling’s next breakout star may come from a precinct better known for basketball. .In 2017, the cycling publication VeloNews pegged Josh Hartman, the Click here to view original web page at www.nytimes.com
Two people were injured in a blaze that sent black smoke billowing in the streets of Crown Heights, officials said. The fire erupted on the fifth floor of an apartment building at Click here to view original web page...
BRIC, the leading presenter of free cultural programming in Brooklyn, opened its 41st season of "Celebrate Brooklyn!" on June 4 with an annual fundraising gala, followed by a free concert, featuring iconic GRAMMY Award-winning entertainer Patti LaBelle! The fundraiser gala showcased REVEL,...
In Staten Island, the phrase “Synagogue of Satan” was spray painted on a wall outside of a Jewish school. In Brooklyn, a pro-Hitler message was scrawled on a poster outside a Jewish children’s museum whose mission is to fight anti-Semitism....
While city and federal authorities claim they are proceeding by the book with a controversial private mixed-used project that seeks both air rights and property from a public housing development on the Fort Greene/Downtown Brooklyn border, local elected officials remain...
Heights Advisors, an organization which invests in nonprofits focused on social change and also looks for a financial return, and Samaritan Daytop Village, a national human services organization, have opened transitional housing for homeless people in Crown Heights, Click...
Mayor de Blasio’s recent press conference, chock full of happy talking points about the decline of crime in our city, Click here to view original web page at www.nydailynews.com
Police are searching for the man who allegedly went into a Brooklyn deli and threatened a store employee while demanding money last Tuesday. The man entered a deli Click here to view original web page at pix11.com
The Benjamin — a Southern-inspired restaurant from a team with experience at upscale restaurants like Jean-Georges, Olmsted, and Gramercy Tavern — is now open 698 Nostrand Ave., between St. Marks Avenue and Prospect Place. It comes from Matt Click...
Back in 2013, Mark Kleback was living in the back of Death By Audio, that wonderful, now-defunct DIY venue formerly located by the Williamsburg waterfront. There, he started tinkering with making indie arcade cabinets, collaborating with New York City-area game...
Dear Brooklyn Readers,
During the 2016 presidential election, I wasn’t deeply “in love” with Hillary Clinton either (nor any of the candidates I’ve ever voted for, for that matter). But what did that have to do with the price of tea in China?
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