Feb. 24, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen Patsy Grimaldi, founder of the beloved Brooklyn pizzerias Grimaldi’s and Juliana’s, died this month at the age of 93, after decades at the forefront of New York City’s pizza scene. Though Grimaldi rose to fame in Brooklyn, he was born in the Bronx and learned the picks of…
Feb. 24, 2025 By Adam Daly The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating an anti-Islamic incident outside a Kensington mosque last week after a man wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat was filmed shouting derogatory rhetoric at the house of worship. A video widely shared online since Feb. 18 shows the suspect…
Feb. 24, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen About 1,000 union nurses at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn are prepared to go on strike on March 1 unless a deal can be struck before their contract expires at midnight on Feb. 28. The Federation of Nurses/UFT, which represents the nurses, issued a ten-day strike notice last week in…
Feb. 24, 2025 By Anna Bradley-Smith An attractive mixed-use complex with commercial space, a Lidl discount grocery store, and apartments is rising at the corner of Bedford Avenue and Empire Boulevard in Crown Heights. A recent visit showed a simple and modern-looking four-story white-brick veneer building at 1750 Bedford Ave. that will house the…
Feb. 21, 2025 By Alesandra Tejeda The timer started at 8:11 a.m last Saturday morning. Almost immediately, Laura Waterbury, an environmental educator with the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy and the leader of the morning’s birdwatching walk, shouted: “Oh! In the water!” Everyone turned to peer through their binoculars at the Double-crested Cormorant that had…
Feb. 21, 2025 By Anna Bradley-Smith An affordable housing lottery has launched for 251 apartments in a two-building complex in Greenpoint dubbed The Riverie. Located on the banks of the East River, right behind the Greenpoint Ferry Terminal, the development is the latest Greenpoint tower to replace low-slung industrial brick warehouses. Australian-based Lendlease, the…
Feb. 20, 2025 By Bill Parry The 16-year-old boy who allegedly shot and killed a Brooklyn cheerleader inside a Holliswood home on Saturday, Feb. 15, is being held without bail after he made his first court appearance on Monday night. The teenager, who was not identified because he is a minor, was arraigned in…
Feb. 20, 2025 By Adam Daly A Bed-Stuy man who pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing social justice advocate Ryan Carson in an unprovoked 2023 attack was sentenced Wednesday to 20 years to life in prison. Brian Dowling, who was 18 at the time of the killing, accepted a plea deal during a Jan. 22…
Feb. 20, 2025 By Carrene Gepilano The Boy Diva is about to take on her biggest opponent, Randy Summers, her ex-boyfriend. On Valentine’s Day, more than 250 people came out to watch pro-wrestling drag queens take to the mat at A Matter of Pride’s Fight Night at Strong Rope Brewery in Red Hook. The…
Feb. 20, 2025 By Lauren Rapp For the second time, a man has been arraigned and charged in connection to a stolen deed of a three-story Fort Greene house valued at over $2 million. Long Island resident Danny Noble, 55, allegedly fraudulently transferred the title of the three-story house at 71 Carlton Ave. in September…