Non-Profit & Community

Residents rallied against the proposed Monitor Point development ahead of a community board meeting, where hundreds turned out to voice their opinions.

Celebrate Tu BiShvat at Brooklyn Children’s Museum with a full day of family-friendly activities, music, art, storytelling, and hands-on experiences connecting kids to nature, culture and environmental care.

Weeksville Heritage Center, in collaboration with the Free Black Women’s Library, presents a collective study of Black feminist scholar Joy James’ essay "Black Suffering in Search of the Beloved Community" on Jan. 20.

Developers have applied to tear down a rare 1860s wood-frame house in Fort Greene, replacing it with a five-story residential building, Brownstoner reported.

Venezuelan Brooklynites are hoping their native country gets a hard reset after former President Nicolás Maduro was captured and extradited to the Unites States on Jan. 3.

The Legal Aid Society, representing the Union of Pinnacle Tenants, filed formal objections in federal bankruptcy court opposing the proposed sale of more than 90 residential buildings owned by the lead debtor entity for Pinnacle Group, following recent objections filed by city and state lawyers.

The Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. festival on Jan. 18 and 19 will engage children in the power of peaceful protest, imagination and service, in the spirit of the late Civil Rights Movement leader, Martin Luther King, Jr.

Acclaimed writer and scholar Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts was named the inaugural Curator-in-Residence. Her new exhibition "homework," and public programing will be on view beginning Feb. 12 through March 20.

The New York County Supreme Court found Xi Hui "Steven Wu and his companies liable for fraud after determining that he illegally sold non-existent condominium units at 345 Ovington Ave. and unlawfully collected millions of dollars in down payments and fees from immigrant Chinese families who believed they were buying homes.

Police officers shot and killed a man who had barricaded himself with two others on the eighth floor of New York Presbyterian Methodist Hospital on Thursday evening.