Aug. 7, 2024 By Annie MacKeigan
The Brooklyn Cyclones didn’t hit the pitch on brooms, but rather with gloves and bats during their July 28 Harry Potter Night game against the Rome Emperors.
Aug. 7, 2024 By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil
Despite dark skies and heavy rain, the spirit of National Night Out Against Crime was alive and well in parts of Brooklyn on Tuesday.
Aug. 7, 2024 By Natalie Dahan
Back for its 13th year, the Greenpoint Film Festival begins on Aug. 7 for a full week of film screenings, celebrations, and events.
Aug. 7, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
A former federal corrections officer will spend two and a half years in prison for smuggling illegal contraband into the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park.
Aug. 6, 2024 By Dean Moses & Brooklyn Paper staff
The second suspect behind an antisemitic graffiti spree that targeted the homes of Jewish members of the Brooklyn Museum’s board of directors, who is also an credentialed member of the New York City media, turned himself into police on Tuesday.
Aug. 6, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
A tree grows in Green-Wood Cemetery — or, it will soon.
Aug. 6, 2024 By Robert Pozarycki
House Minority Leader and Brooklyn Congressman Hakeem Jeffries was back in his home district Monday morning to help ceremonially break ground on a federally-funded accessibility project on the G line.
Aug. 6, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith
A new Middle Eastern restaurant and bar with an equal focus on food, booze and music will be opening on Bed-Stuy’s Malcolm X Boulevard in coming months, with the aim to bring the feel of Tokyo listening rooms mixed with Istanbul taverns.
Aug. 5, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
A Crown Heights man will spend seven years behind bars for slashing a straphanger’s face on the subway last year.
Aug. 5, 2024 By Natalie Dahan
Reporting from the halls of New Utrecht High School, student-run newspaper The Utrecht Pigeon aims to create an outlet where voices that are often disregarded are free to be expressed through poetry, writing and activism.