Mar. 8, 2024 By Stephanie Waddle
Remember the “revenge travel “ trend? After being pent up for two years during COVID, people were traveling everywhere and anywhere — at all times. That trend has dissipated, but in its wake there are new trends.
Mar. 8, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith
A new artist has been selected by the city to create the public art portion of Downtown Brooklyn’s long-in-the-works Abolitionist Place park. Incorporated in the new plans is a monument to abolitionist “conductors” who helped people escape slavery through the Underground Railroad.
Mar. 8, 2024 By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil
In celebration of International Women’s Day, the Brooklyn Museum on Friday unveiled two groundbreaking feminist photography exhibitions that challenge conventional notions of gender, nationality and photography itself.
Mar. 8, 2024 By Adam Daly
Police are searching for two suspects who forced a man at knifepoint to withdraw $1,000 from a Downtown Brooklyn ATM on Feb. 28.
Mar. 8, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
On a rainy March afternoon, the tenants of 135 Kent Ave. in Williamsburg set up a tarp and a table outside their small apartment building. With baked goods and fresh chai, they were thanking their neighbors for their support and celebrating a victory.
Mar. 7, 2024 By Ethan Marshall and Czarinna Andres Morton “Morty” Povman, who was the longest-serving New York City Council Member, died Tuesday due to complications of pancreatic cancer. Povman served in the role from 1971-2001, representing what was initially New York’s 15th congressional district and later the 24th congressional district, which covers Forest Hills,…
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Mar. 7, 2024 By Adam Daly
The Brooklyn Navy Yard is set to be home to a new $25 million state-of-the-art manufacturing, incubator, and accelerator facility focused on helping Black- and women-owned health and beauty businesses launch and grow in New York City.
Mar. 7, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith
Spaced elbow to elbow in Hoyt Street’s City Life Church Monday night, Gowanus locals aired their concerns at a community meeting on a migrant shelter for 400 men slated to open in a former factory building on 3rd Street.
Mar. 7, 2024 By Isabel Song Beer
With spring just around the corner, Brooklyn is gearing up for a spectacular display of cherry blossoms, including the borough’s historic Green-Wood Cemetery.
Mar. 7, 2024 By Adam Daly
A Red Hook man was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison on Wednesday for the June 2020 shooting of 27-year-old Elvin Fernandez who was awaiting the birth of his first child.