Sep. 25, 2023 By Gabriele Holtermann
Tropical storm Ophelia didn’t stop a few thousand pizza lovers from converging on Coney Island for Barstool Sports owner Dave Portnoy’s inaugural One Bite Pizza Festival at Maimonides Park, home of the Brooklyn Cyclones, on Sept. 23.
Sep. 21, 2023 By Kirstyn Brendlen
Fall is descending on Brooklyn, but that doesn’t mean the fun is over in Coney Island.
Sep. 20, 2023 By Isabel Song Beer
Pizza lovers will finally have the opportunity to joyously celebrate dozens of the city’s best pizzaiolos at the first-ever One Bite Pizza Festival, set to take place in Coney Island on Sept. 23.
Sep. 13, 2023 By Isabel Song Beer
The popular Coney Island Comedy Festival is back and better than ever for its fifth year. The festival, which is held at the Red Doors and Coney Island Brewery, will stretch over three days with a jam-packed lineup of local and traveling comics.
Sep. 12, 2023 By Adam Daly & Jada Camille
Twenty-two years on from the devastating terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, Brooklynites came together to mark the solemn anniversary and to honor the lives of those lost on the day and afterwards.
Sep. 11, 2023 By Jada Camille
Labor Day has passed, Brooklyn’s beach tourists have left, and as locals settle in to enjoy some peace and quiet once again, a Coney Island-based writing organization is highlighting local writers with a public poetry exhibit displayed all around the neighborhood.
Sep. 8, 2023 By Adam Daly
Twenty-two years on from the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center that changed the face of New York City forever, Brooklynites across the borough are marking the solemn anniversary with various events over the coming days.
Aug. 29, 2023 By Jada Camille
Hundreds flocked to southern Brooklyn over on Sunday for the 46th annual multicultural street festival known as the Brighton Jubilee.
Aug. 24, 2023 By Jada Camille
Alfadila Community Services, a community non-profit based in Coney Island called on city pols to have the chairperson of Community Board 13, Lucy Mujica Diaz, removed from her position after she allegedly made anti-Muslim remarks on a public social media post opposing the proposed Coney Island casino.
Aug. 22, 2023 By Isabel Song Beer
Cops took custody of a wallaby in Coney Island over the weekend following calls that a 22-year old man was apparently parading the marsupial on Riegalmann Boardwalk.