Jul. 29, 2025 By Tara Lustberg Finding Room to Grow: NYC Apartment Buildings Designed with Families in Mind Finding family-friendly housing in NYC can be a challenge, especially with the average rent of a two-bedroom apartment in NYC averaging over $5,400 per month, according to apartments.com. According to reports, this is significantly higher (148%)…
Jul. 28, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen The Adams administration will be allowed to remove part of the Bedford Avenue bike lane as a legal battle about the lane’s long-term future continues. On July 16, a state appellate court issued a temporary restraining order that prevented the city from removing or modifying the lane after…
Jul. 28, 2025 By Robert Pozarycki Police in Bushwick are questioning a suspect in an early-morning shooting that left a man seriously wounded on Monday. Law enforcement sources said the violence erupted inside 182 Wilson Ave. just before 5:10 a.m. on July 28. Officers from the 83rd Precinct, in responding to a 911 call about…
Jul. 28, 2025 By Claude Solnik Three’s a charm? After two apartment buildings housing nearly 2,000 residents went up nearby, Brooklyn-based BFC Partners broke ground today on a third Coney Island building that would house another 1,500 residents. The company, which completed Coney I three years ago and Coney II about a year ago,…
Jul. 28, 2025 By Gabriele Holtermann Maimonides Health celebrated a major milestone in its expansion of behavioral health services on July 24 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new Psychiatric Emergency Department, which will soon house a Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program, or CPEP. The new facility, funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and…
Jul. 25, 2025 By Gabriele Holtermann The vote on a sweeping proposal to redevelop 122 acres of Brooklyn’s industrial waterfront has been postponed for the fifth time. The Brooklyn Marine Terminal (BMT) plan, originally scheduled for a vote on the afternoon of July 24, was delayed after several members of the 28-member BMT Task…
Jul. 25, 2025 By Gabe Friedman On the phone recently after a grueling day of rehearsal, composer and indie rocker Ellis Ludwig-Leone had a bit of trouble coming up with a succinct summary for his latest work. “Let’s wait on that,” he said with a laugh. “I’m still working that out.” It’s hard to…
Jul. 25, 2025 By Olivia Seaman A Brooklyn man was sentenced Wednesday to 38 years in prison for a series of violent attacks against his former girlfriend, including a brutal stabbing at her Downtown Brooklyn workplace that nearly claimed her life. Rakien Figueroa, 43, also known as Rakeem Figueroa, was convicted in March on…
Jul. 25, 2025 By Miles Bolton The New York Mets’ minor league affiliate is welcoming cats to Coney Island for the first time. The Brooklyn Cyclones are hosting their first-ever “PURRRRfect Game” at Maimonides Park on Tuesday, July 29 when they take on the Jersey Shore BlueClaws. Fans who purchase the special ticket offer…
Jul. 25, 2025 By Eric J. Greenberg On the morning of July 27, 1973, a teenage couple from Brooklyn set out hitchhiking to upstate New York to attend what would become the largest rock concert in American history — “Summer Jam,” featuring The Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers Band and The Band. They were…