Apr. 17, 2023 By Aidan Graham
A 31-year-old woman is dead after a car blew through a red light and plowed into her on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn Heights on Sunday night.
Driver kills woman crossing Atlantic Ave in Brooklyn Heights
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Pier 69 Market in Bay Ridge sees outpouring of support after devastating fire
Apr. 14, 2023 By Adam Daly
In the wake of a devastating fire, Bay Ridge residents are banding together to help a beloved business rebuild and reopen its doors.
UFT, parents sue Department of Education over Success Academy co-location plan in Sheepshead Bay
Apr. 14, 2023 By Megan McGibney The ongoing strain between New York City’s public school and charter school communities took another turn late last month when the United Federation of Teachers, along with parents and individual teachers, filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court against the Department of Education for allegedly violating state education law…
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Governors Ball announces 2023 lineup of performances, new location at Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Apr. 14, 2023 By Carlotta Mohamed The Governors Ball Music Festival, one of the most anticipated summer concerts in New York City, recently announced its 2023 star lineup of performances and its new home in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. The three-day event will take place from Friday, June 9, to Sunday, June 11, from 11:45…
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Brooklyn start-up to launch world’s first ammonia-powered vessel down Hudson River in bid to reduce maritime carbon emissions
Apr. 14, 2023 By Adam Daly
The bustling maritime industry in the New York Harbor may soon be getting a little more eco-friendly as Amogy, a Brooklyn-based clean energy start-up, works to create the first-ever ammonia-powered tugboat.
Brick wall, watch it fall: DOB hits Bensonhurst funeral home with violation after roof collapse
Apr. 13, 2023 By Jada Camille
The Department of Buildings has issued a violation to a Bensonhurst funeral home after part of the building’s exterior wall and roof collapsed onto the sidewalk.
Brooklyn real estate market slows as sales and inventory drop after mortgage rate hike
Apr. 13, 2023 By Anna Bradley-Smith
The dizzying pace of the Brooklyn real estate market over the last decade is slowing as prices flatline across the borough and the number of sales and inventory both drop, according to a first quarter market report.
Inaugural Just Brooklyn Prize to award $20k to five BIPOC changemakers
Apr. 13, 2023 By Joanna Insco
Applications are now open for the first-ever Just Brooklyn Prize, a $100,000 annual award for Brooklynites working to advance social and racial justice in Brooklyn.
‘South Brooklyn has regressed’: Bay Ridgeites speak out after pride flag burned
Apr. 12, 2023 By Jada Camille
A vandal tore a pride flag down from a Bay Ridge storefront and burned it on the sidewalk, and a local advocacy group is searching for the culprit.
‘Beautifying our planet can begin right here at home’: Bay Ridge Cares plans Earth Day park clean-up
Apr. 12, 2023 By Isabel Song Beer
Earth Day is approaching, and the community non-profit organization Bay Ridge Cares is celebrating by tending to the nabe’s greenspaces with a clean-up event in partnership with the Bay Ridge Environmental Group.