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Desus and Mero Filled 80+ Free Fridges in NYC This Week for World Food Day

To commemorate World Food Day on October 16, SHOWTIME and New York Forever are teaming up with City Harvest to stock free fridges across all five boroughs.

Oct 15, 2021 8:18 PM Read more >

NYPD Crossing Guard Says She 'Can't Stop' Dancing, Even When It Nearly Cost Her Job

Esther Bishop has been a crossing guard for 13 years, and she's danced her way through every year on the job, despite those who have tried to stop her groove.

Oct 15, 2021 7:51 PM Read more >

Bed-Stuy’s Woodhull Hospital Adds 16 Exam Rooms and More in $5M Expansion

The 5,000 square feet expansion includes the exam rooms, a new nurse’s station, a new isolation room and more

Oct 15, 2021 2:54 PM Read more >

The Week in Crime: Spotlight on Brownsville

Overall, crime is up in Brownsville, and in Brooklyn as a whole.

Oct 15, 2021 12:36 PM Read more >

Driver Charged With Reckless Manslaughter for BK Crash That Killed 3-Month-Old

Tyrik Mott was charged with first-degree assault and second-degree manslaughter after he allegedly drove against traffic on a one-way street causing a major car crash

Oct 15, 2021 11:00 AM Read more >

Vaccination Against COVID-19 Supports a Healthy Pregnancy by Protecting Both Mother and Child - an Immunologist Explains the Maternal Immune Response

The CDC has reiterated the importance of vaccination in preventing severe illness and death resulting from COVID-19.

Oct 14, 2021 2:30 PM Read more >

Innovative Brooklyn Coffee Company Gets $25M Funding, Its Secret? Tiny Spaces

The Brooklyn-born coffee company Blank Street is growing rapidly, with plans to have 100 locations in NYC by the end of 2022

Oct 14, 2021 12:30 PM Read more >

BK Queer Flea Market Moves in to Bushwick for All of October

BK Queer Flea is setting up its market in a new Bushwick studio space for all of October, starting this weekend. Featuring vendors, live performances and more.

Oct 14, 2021 11:00 AM Read more >

BP Eric Adams Supports Open Space Memorial for Flatbush Burial Ground

The City released plans to convert the ancient burial ground into affordable apartments in 2020, and those plans were met with immediate community backlash.

Oct 14, 2021 9:25 AM Read more >

Honk for Pumpkin! East New York Great Grandma Is Turning 105

Family members of Kathleen "Pumpkin" Dowling are asking people in East New York to honk, shout or leave flowers at her housing complex Thursday to show love on her 105th birthday

Oct 13, 2021 9:23 PM Read more >