Alternate Side Parking Fines Increasing to $65 Citywide Starting Feb. 20

Dec. 27, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen

The first night of Hanukkah was a joyous one in Brooklyn, as hundreds of people from all over the country gathered to light the borough’s largest menorah in Grand Army Plaza. 

Police from five Queens precincts are looking for a pair of burglars who targeted independent mom-and-pop drugstores from Fresh Meadows to Astoria throughout December.

The two men allegedly broke into three drugstores in three different neighborhoods in a half-hour during the morning of Sunday, Dec. 15. While one stood guard outside a drugstore at 63-09 39th Avenue in Woodside, his partner broke through the glass front door at 5:50 a.m. Police from the 108th Precinct reported that he removed $400 in cash before leaving.

Dec. 27, 2024 By Robert Pearl

Bayview Houses became a festive holiday wonderland on Saturday, Dec. 21, as the tenant association hosted a heartwarming toy giveaway for local families.

Dec. 27, 2024 By Gabriele Holtermann

The Flowery, a Florida-based medical dispensary, opened its newest legal adult-use cannabis dispensary in Williamsburg on Dec. 20, marking the company’s fourth location in New York City.

Dec. 27, 2024 By Ethan Marshall

The real estate listing site StreetEasy presented a series of predictions that 2025 may have in store for the market in New York City in a report by StreetEasy Senior Economist Kenny Lee.

Dec. 27, 2024 By Ethan Stark-Miller

Community advocates gathered at Brooklyn’s Coney Island Stillwell Avenue subway station on Thursday afternoon to mourn a woman who was burned to death in the station on Sunday morning.

Dec. 27, 2024 By Athena Dawson

Assembly Member Alicia Hyndman and the Greater Queens NY Chapter of the Links held an awareness event in Laurelton on Tuesday, Dec. 17, about the harmful effects of hair relaxers. 

Dec. 27, 2024 By Czarinna Andres

Dec. 27, 2024 By Czarinna Andres 

Dec. 27, 2024 By Brooklyn Paper

We’ve arrived at the tail end of the year, and before we look forward toward 2025, we’re looking back at some of the biggest stories of 2024.

Dec. 27, 2024 By Lauren Rapp

The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office has launched a groundbreaking effort to combat cryptocurrency scams targeting Brooklyn’s Russian-speaking community, alerting over 1,200 victims and disrupting a fraudulent network preying on unsuspecting investors.