Feb. 6, 2024 By Emily Davenport
It’s time to leave the traditional dinner and a movie in the past.
The Drunken Laboratory hosts ‘Love Lab’ to make sparks fly in Brooklyn
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Biden administration denies $800M infrastructure grants for BQE’s crumbling cantilever
Feb. 6, 2024 By Ben Brachfeld
The Biden administration has rejected the city’s applications for $800 million in infrastructure grants to redesign and reconstruct the crumbling triple cantilever section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, Brooklyn Paper’s sister publication amNewYork Metro first reported.
Branching out! Brooklyn Public Library challenges library-goers to ‘Browse the Branches’
Feb. 6, 2024 By Isabel Song Beer
Get ready to embark on a novel journey!
Proposed bill threatens survival of independent liquor stores in Brooklyn and beyond as supermarkets push to sell wine
Feb. 6, 2024 By Rachel Butler
The future of independently owned liquor stores in Brooklyn — and across the state — could be in jeopardy if a senate bill that would permit supermarkets to sell wine were to become law.
Cluck yeah! Raising Cane’s opens new location in Downtown Brooklyn
Feb. 6, 2024 By Melissa Fishman
Raising Cane’s, the beloved food chain with roots in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has opened its fourth New York City location — and just second spot in Brooklyn — inside Fulton Mall.
Brooklyn tax preparer faces three years in prison over $1.1M false return scheme
Feb. 6, 2024 By Adam Daly
Federal prosecutors announced Monday that the former owner of an East Flatbush tax preparation business has pleaded guilty to stealing $1.1 million through a three-year long false return scheme.
Southern Brooklyn prepares to welcome the Year of the Dragon with Lunar New Year celebration
Feb. 5, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
Brooklynites kicked off a month of Lunar New Year Celebrations at Il Centro Community Center in Bath Beach on Feb. 3.
New mid-block crossings on Atlantic Avenue aim to slow cars, increase pedestrian safety on ‘Boulevard of Death’
Feb. 5, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
Atlantic Avenue has three new mid-block pedestrian crossings, which the city and local pols hope will make the busy roadway — nicknamed Brooklyn’s “Boulevard of Death” — safer for Brooklynites traversing the corridor on foot.
On the lam! Sheep that escaped Brooklyn slaughterhouse settles in New Jersey sanctuary
Feb. 5, 2024 By Adam Daly
A lost lamb wandering the streets of Sunset Park was wrangled by cops Saturday after authorities believe she escaped from a nearby slaughterhouse.
Belizean Episcopal rector: What would Jesus do in the Israeli-Hamas War?
Feb. 5, 2024 By Nelson A. King A Belizean-born Episcopal (Anglican) rector in Canarsie, Brooklyn, who claims that he had experienced racism and discrimination when he and his family first moved to the Brooklyn neighborhood 40 years ago, is now asking “what would Jesus do” amid the Israeli-Hamas War. Using the acronym WWJD for “What […]