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Brooklyn Museum to Build Gallery Devoted to BK History With $50M City Award

The funding will also go towards modernizing infrastructure and installing energy efficient upgrades throughout the building

Nov 23, 2021 10:22 AM Read more >

This Brooklyn Baker Wants You to Eat Her 'Chaotic and Grotesque' Art

Cake artist Alli Gelles gets flavor inspiration for her spectacular confectionery from Brooklyn's bodegas.

Nov 22, 2021 5:44 PM Read more >

New Interactive Mural in Brooklyn Supports Black-Owned and Small Businesses

Google, AmEx commissioned local Filipina-American artist Kitkat Pecson to design and paint the interactive mural

Nov 22, 2021 3:56 PM Read more >

The Swedish Artist Using the Brooklyn Subway as his Backdrop

With the help of his BK friend, Benny Cruz's artwork has garnered the attention of Wu-Tang Clan. Now he’s waiting on a call from the MTA.

Nov 22, 2021 12:45 PM Read more >

Brooklyn’s ‘Worst Landlord’ Reaches Settlement With Housing Department

Jason Korn, who topped the Worst Landlord Watchlist two year in a row, will pay $235,000 and fix housing violations in nearly 400 homes

Nov 22, 2021 11:38 AM Read more >

Man's Clinton Hill Gardens Saved After Months-Long Battle With City Over Rats

The community has helped save nine gardens that volunteer John Cook spent 14 years building at a NYCHA housing complex, after the City recently pressured him to tear them up due to a rat problem

Nov 19, 2021 5:11 PM Read more >

NYCHA Teens Gain Confidence, Skill at Free After-School Boxing Program

"For many, this is the closest thing they have to a form of therapy."

Nov 19, 2021 4:47 PM Read more >

100% Affordable Senior Housing Development Opens in Williamsburg

The Arker Companies, Department of Housing Preservation and Development and Jewish Association Serving the Aging have built 64 new homes for seniors

Nov 19, 2021 2:56 PM Read more >

Woman Extradited From Florida, Arraigned for Shooting Death of Brooklyn Mother: DA’s Office

The woman was charged with second-degree murder for fatally shooting Delia Johnson in the head at point blank range last August

Nov 19, 2021 2:07 PM Read more >

Thanksgiving Recipe: Gingered Cranberry-Pear Cobbler

BK Reader will be sharing a range of Thanksgiving recipes leading up to the holiday to make sure everyone has a meal worthy of loosening those waistbands

Nov 19, 2021 1:55 PM Read more >