Mar. 24, 2025 By Cooper Albers Student athletes at the New Heights Youth organization were in for quite the surprise on Friday night when McDonald’s kicked off the countdown to the All American Games on their home court at the Major R. Owens Health & Wellness Community Center in Crown Heights. A week before…
Mar. 24, 2025 By Robert Pozarycki The NYPD is investigating how a man died while in custody at Brooklyn Criminal Court last week. Police reported that Soso Ramishvili, 32, of Avenue X was found unconscious and unresponsive inside a holding cell of the courthouse at 120 Schermerhorn St. in Downtown Brooklyn at about 8:25 a.m.…
Mar. 21, 2025 By Lauren Rapp One morning, Bay Ridge resident Zak Turner noticed his computer screen at work looked blurry. He figured it might be time for glasses. What happened next was something he never expected. Months after first experiencing blurry vision, Turner, 25 at the time, sat beside his girlfriend — now…
Mar. 21, 2025 By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil The Norwegian Christian Home and Health Center in Dyker Heights celebrated the completion of its newest rehabilitation gym with a ribbon-cutting last week. The $80,000-plus renovation, unveiled on March 19, aims to enhance the facility’s ability to provide top-tier rehabilitation services, including physical and occupational therapy. The…
Mar. 21, 2025 By Regina Martinez “This is not a labor cost issue.” Those words, written by Sony lawyer Matthew Kelley in an email to Alamo Drafthouse’s bargaining committee, have been on the minds of filmmakers Tyler Trautman and Sebastian Diaz as they document the ongoing strike at the dine-in cinema. “Unless our employees…
Mar. 20, 2025 By Anna Bradley-Smith A 10-story hotel, one of a handful of buildings in Brooklyn and beyond to use geothermal heating and cooling, is progressing in Bushwick, with opening slated for the summer, according to the developers. After years of fits and starts, there is now a full grey concrete building, with…
Mar. 20, 2025 By Adam Daly Winston Nguyen, a former “Jeopardy!” champion and private school math teacher in Brooklyn Heights, was sentenced to seven years in prison on Wednesday for soliciting sexually explicit images from teenagers. Nguyen, 38, of Harlem, pleaded guilty earlier this month to posing as a teenage boy on Snapchat and…
Mar. 20, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen More than a dozen people were injured and nine hospitalized after a large fire at NYCHA’s Brownsville Houses on Wednesday night. Firefighters responded to reports of a fire on the fourth and fifth floors at 268 Osborn St. just after 7 p.m. on March 20, according to the…
Mar. 20, 2025 By Miriam Norwitz Brooklyn-based fashion brand West X East is stitching its way to success. Founded by Tania Kottoor, a first-generation Indian American, West X East is a “tech-forward fashion brand that elevates cultural fashion” by creating customizable South Asian-inspired outfits. As a child, Kottoor spent hours in the corner of…
Mar. 19, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell A fire in a large Bay Ridge apartment building left at least two people injured on Wednesday morning. The blaze broke out on the third floor of a seven-story building on 3rd Avenue near 99th Street around 11 a.m., per the FDNY. When firefighters arrived…