Feb. 21, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
Five days after it was unexpectedly forced to close, Saint Vitus Bar in Greenpoint is still quiet.
Greenpoint venue Saint Vitus Bar shuttered by Department of Buildings
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Offshore wind organization celebrates Engineers Week with NYC students
Feb. 21, 2024 By Isabel Song Beer
Community Offshore Wind, a joint clean energy venture between RWE Renewables and National Grid, partnered with local schools across New York City and Long Island to cultivate student interest in STEM fields in celebration of National Engineers Week.
A paw print on NYC’s heart: Boris & Horton dog café closing Brooklyn, Manhattan locations
Feb. 21, 2024 By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil
Boris & Horton is bidding farewell.
Playing their right hand: Police gift handcrafted domino tables to Brownsville senior center for Black History Month
Feb. 21, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell
In honor of Black History Month, members of Brooklyn’s NYPD Police Service Area (PSA) 2 — which serves 42 public housing developments within the confines of the 73rd, 75th and 77th Precincts – had three handcrafted, custom designed domino tables for the Rosetta Gaston Senior Center in Brownsville on Feb. 15.
Brooklyn Starbucks join massive organizing push, file petition to unionize
Feb. 20, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
Workers at a Park Slope Starbucks location – along with hundreds of their colleagues around the country — filed a petition to unionize with the National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday morning.
MTA unveils ambitious plan to illuminate subway system with LED lighting by 2026
Feb. 20, 2024 By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Tuesday announced its plans to convert all 150,000 fluorescent light fixtures across the subway system to LED lighting by mid-2026.
Affordable housing lottery opens for seniors in Bushwick’s Rheingold Brewery development
Feb. 20, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith
An affordable housing lottery has launched for 65 truly affordable apartments for seniors in an under-construction development at 15 Monteith St. in Bushwick, on a section of the sprawling former Rheingold Brewery site.
Kevin Ollie named interim head coach of Brooklyn Nets amid controversy
Feb. 20, 2024 By Joe Pantorno
Kevin Ollie has been named interim head coach of the Brooklyn Nets after dismissing Jacque Vaughn on Monday.
Pols want diesel-powered cruise ships, like those idling in Red Hook, to connect to shore power or leave
Feb. 20, 2024 By Ben Brachfeld
Fossil fuel-emitting cruise ships would have to walk the plank and abandon New York City ports unless they plug into clean shore power for energy, should a bill in the City Council become law.
Barbadian Episcopal rector wants ‘healing, reconciliation’ in Israeli-Hamas War
Feb. 19, 2024 By Nelson A. King The Barbadian-born rector of St. Paul’s Church in the Village of Flatbush in Brooklyn is calling for “healing and reconciliation” in the Israeli-Hamas War. St. Paul’s Church in the Village of Flatbush is an Episcopal (Anglican) Parish in the Diocese of Long Island and a member of the Worldwide Anglican Communion. Rector the Rev. Sheldon N.N. Hamblin told Caribbean Life on Friday that, “In the heart of conflict, where the echoes of strife reverberate through the ancient lands of Gaza and Israel, the narrative of peace is often shrouded in the tumult of war. […]