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NYC Primaries | The results of the 2025 primary election in Brooklyn

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Jun. 25, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen The results of the 2025 Primary Election are in, for the most part, after a hectic campaign season and a sweltering Election Day. A heated mayoral primary and dozens of local races drew significant voter turnout across the five boroughs.  According to the city’s Board of Elections, early…

Brooklyn Pride parade kicks off after rain tapers, draws thousands on Fifth Avenue

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Jun. 16, 2025 By Dashiell Allen A grim forecast of rain and cloudy skies couldn’t deter tens of thousands of people of all ages from showing their colors on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope for the 29th annual Brooklyn Pride festival and twilight parade on June 14.  A feeling of community and neighborhood spirit…

NYC Primaries | Meet the candidates running in Council District 36

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Jun. 13, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen Early voting for the 2025 New York City Primary starts on June 14, and as voters prepare to head to the polls, one Brooklynite is hoping to unseat one of Brooklyn’s best-known City Council members. In Council District 36, which includes most of Bedford-Stuyvesant and parts of Crown…

Who’s running, where to vote, and more: Brooklyn’s guide to the 2025 Primary Election

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Jun. 13, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen New York City’s 2025 Primary Election is nearly here, and it’s a big one.  The Democratic mayoral primary has dominated the headlines, but Brooklynites will also be casting their votes for Comptroller and Public Advocate. Candidates for Brooklyn Borough President, Civil Court judge, and City Council will appear…

Brooklyn Pride 2025 kicks off monthlong celebration, gears up for annual ‘Twilight’ parade

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Jun. 4, 2025 By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil Brooklyn will come alive with color, pride and purpose throughout June, culminating in Brooklyn Pride Day 2025 — a celebration unlike any other in the Northeast. The full-day event will take over Park Slope on Saturday, June 14, with a packed lineup of festivities, including the region’s…

After four-year closure and renovations, the Bedford Library is open again

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May. 1, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen After a four-year closure the newly-renovated Bedford Library reopened last week, finally welcoming Bed-Stuy residents back to the stacks. Though the library looks largely the same, it has been retrofitted with a new high-efficiency HVAC system and other energy-conserving measures — making it a “model for energy efficiency,”…

Chi Ossé and park advocates call for more funding of New York City’s green spaces

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Apr. 22, 2025 By Gabriele Holtermann Council Member Chi Ossé, New Yorkers for Parks (NY4P) and local park advocates rallied Monday at Herbert Von King Park in Bedford-Stuyvesant, calling on Mayor Eric Adams to restore funding for the city’s Parks Department and 800 parks-related jobs. Park advocates say underfunding and understaffing have led to…

Founders of now-empty Bed-Stuy Aquarium hope to install permanent fish pond

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Jan. 13, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen Though it has been temporarily disassembled, the Bed-Stuy Aquarium has big plans for the future, organizers said last week, and those plans haven’t changed despite recent news about one of its co-founders. The controversial sidewalk fish “pond” made headlines again this month when Hajj Lovick, who helped create…