May. 16, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen Last fall, nonprofit theater group What Will the Neighbors Say? got good news: the National Endowment for the Arts had awarded them a $15,000 grant to support the premier of a new play, “At the Barricades,” in Brooklyn. The group was “overjoyed and really excited,” said co-artistic director…
May. 15, 2025 By Gabriele Holtermann Hundreds of Brooklynites and elected officials — among them U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer and City Council members Farah Louis and Julie Menin — flocked to Bensonhurst on May 4 to kick off Jewish and Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with a celebration of Jewish and Asian…
May. 15, 2025 By Gabe Friedman Comedian-actor-rapper Hannibal Buress had a long relationship with the space formerly home to The Knitting Factory. In fact, he performed standup at the club’s first show in Brooklyn in 2009 (after it relocated from its decades-long home in Manhattan) and its final show before it closed in 2022.…
May. 15, 2025 By Shane O’Brien New York City’s housing crisis is no secret and the city’s low-cost housing landscape remains extremely difficult to navigate, including a housing lottery system theoretically devised to provide a solution for the dire need for accommodation. A problem that has been brewing for decades, the housing crisis continues…
May. 15, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen More than 28,000 people will race from Prospect Park to Coney Island during the New York Road Runners’ RBC Brooklyn Half Marathon on Saturday, May 17, passing through some of the borough’s most iconic landmarks on the way. The race started in 1981 as a fairly modest affair.…
May. 14, 2025 By Gabriele Holtermann May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and 13 Brooklyn-based Asian American small businesses received a financial boost to help modernize their digital marketing strategies. On May 11, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, alongside Asian Americans for Equality and the Renaissance Economic Development Corporation, announced the…
May. 14, 2025 By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil The Wonder Years frontman Dan Campbell doesn’t consider the band’s acoustic “Burst & Decay” series just stripped-down versions of their catalog. To him, it’s a full reimagining — a way to “highlight the emotion behind the songs” and let the lyrics breathe in a new, intimate space.…
May. 14, 2025 By Nelson A. King Brooklyn-based Jammins Events confirmed on Tuesday, May 13, that Beenie Mman, Chris Martin, Kevin Lyttle, and Louie Culture will headline a high-energy show at UBS Arena in Queens on Saturday, May 24, during the Memorial Weekend. Dancehall hitmaker Beenie Man is set to triumphantly return to New York […]
May. 14, 2025 By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil A Park Slope man was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Tuesday for a 2022 shooting in Sunset Park that left a 20-year-old man seriously injured. The victim was shot twice in the chest after 56-year-old John Carter and his accomplices, searching for a different person,…
May. 14, 2025 By sobrien May 14, 2025 By Shane O’Brien State Sen. Kristen Gonzalez touted a number of measures introduced in the recently-approved state budget that will help working families combat inflation but said the budget could have been “bolder” in its efforts to tackle the cost-of-living crisis. Gonzalez, who represents areas in…