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Pier 2’s roller rink glides into new season this weekend with upgrades, free skate sessions

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Mar. 27, 2025 By Adam Daly Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 2 Roller Rink will reopen for the season this Friday, March 28, welcoming roller skating enthusiasts back to the rink. To mark its 11th skating season, organizers have planned a celebration featuring live music, food vendors, and activities for all ages on opening day.…

City Council passes long-awaited legislation to tackle sidewalk scaffolding issues

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Mar. 26, 2025 By Shane O’Brien The City Council approved a legislative package Wednesday afternoon to reduce the number of scaffolding structures on New York City streets. The package of five bills takes aim at the temporary steel and wooden scaffolding structures – known as scaffolding sheds – that line and darken thousands of…

New York City Fringe Festival expands to Brooklyn as four new shows debut in Dumbo

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Mar. 26, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen New York City Fringe Festival, the annual indie theater bonanza, is back next month with new shows, new participants, and a whole new borough.  This year, for the first time, the usually Manhattan-exclusive festival is stepping into Brooklyn, where four shows will play a total of 17 performances…

Coney Island drag show, ‘RuPaul’ watch party, brings queer community together

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Mar. 25, 2025 By Lauren Rapp For the past two years, queens Maxxxim and Nancy NoGood have led Southern Brooklyn’s only weekly drag show: an all-ages “RuPaul’s Drag Race” viewing party at Coney Island USA’s Freak Bar. There, the drag artists are cultivating a queer space that remains rare in the borough’s southern neighborhoods.…

Brooklyn financial advisor allegedly scammed 10 clients out of $1.24M in Ponzi Scheme: DA

Prosecutors allege that instead of investing client's funds in business opportunities, Likhtenstein used the money for personal expenses and to make partial payments to earlier victims of the Ponzi scheme.

Mar. 25, 2025 By Adam Daly The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office is urging potential victims of an indicted Sheepshead Bay financial advisor to come forward after he was charged this week for allegedly stealing nearly $1.24 million from 10 investors through a Ponzi Scheme. DA Eric Gonzalez announced that Marat Likhtenstein, 64, was arraigned…

PHOTOS | Record crowd celebrates 30 years of Bay Ridge St. Patrick’s Day Parade

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Mar. 25, 2025 By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil Bay Ridge was awash in green on Sunday as the neighborhood celebrated a milestone — the 30th annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Under sunny skies, a record crowd lined Third Avenue to cheer on the marchers, filling the streets with Irish pride. For many attendees, the parade…

Aviator Sports to close indoor facility next month as local fight to save it holds strong

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Mar. 25, 2025 By Robert Pearl The indoor facility at Floyd Bennett Field’s Aviator Sports and Events Center, a longtime recreational hub that has served thousands of children from Brooklyn and Queens, will close April 14, officials announced Monday — but locals are still hoping to save the space. The closure, set for when…