Feb. 5, 2024 By Shara Levine & Brooklyn Paper Celebrate Black History Month in February by honoring the achievements and contributions of Black Americans who have played a vital role in shaping our world. Explore a variety of family-friendly events happening throughout Brooklyn, ensuring a month-long celebration of their impact on our shared history. Black…
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Feb. 5, 2024 By Adam Daly
Bruce Springsteen fans have been paying tribute to the singer’s Bay Ridge-born mother, who died Jan. 31 at the age of 98 following a battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
Feb. 5, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell & Meaghan McGoldrick O’Neil
One person is dead and three others, including a toddler, are in critical condition Monday after a fatal fire in Boerum Hill Sunday afternoon.
Feb. 2, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
A first-of-its-kind renewable energy project in Greenpoint has become a point of contention between the community, the city, and utility giant National Grid.
Feb. 2, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell & Emily Davenport
A construction worker was reportedly killed following a building collapse in Borough Park on Friday afternoon.
Feb. 2, 2024 By Isabel Song Beer
Cops are asking for help identifying a man they say left a book with a hateful cover on the stoop of a Midwood home.
Feb. 2, 2024 By Adam Daly
A Park Slope man who sexually abused a nine-year-old girl repeatedly for almost two years after befriending her family was sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday.
Feb. 2, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith A Greek Revival-style townhouse pitched to rise on a garden lot on Brooklyn Heights’ historic Grace Court was roundly rejected by the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission on Tuesday for being out of character, out of proportion, and “the visual equivalent of a defensive crouch,” according to one commissioner. At issue was also whether the lot, one of 10 street-facing backyards attached to Remsen Street houses that have provided greenery and open space along Grace Court for more than 170 years, should be developed at all or preserved. The backyard lot in question at 39…
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Feb. 1, 2024 By Ben Brachfeld
C train riders will be the first to experience the brand new R211 “open gangway” subway cars, which entered passenger service on the Washington Heights-to-East New York local line on Thursday.
Feb. 1, 2024 By Adam Daly
A Stuyvesant Heights man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for shooting an NYPD officer who was responding to a domestic violence call in Weeksville on Christmas Eve in 2020.