Jul. 3, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen Last week’s Primary Election drew more than 1 million voters across the city, and more than 500,000 Brooklynites — more than in any other borough — headed to the polls to make their voices heard. A week later, the ranked-choice results have been finalized: Zohran Mamdani is officially…
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…
Jun. 11, 2025 By Max Levine Murray The race for City Council District 41 – encompassing Bedford-Stuyvesant, Ocean Hill, Brownsville, East Flatbush and Crown Heights – is shaping up as one of the city’s most crowded and competitive contests in the upcoming primary election. Incumbent Council Member Darlene Mealy is seeking re-election after a…
Jun. 6, 2025 By Gabriele Holtermann June is Gun Violence Awareness Month, and on June 5, middle school students at Launch Expeditionary Learning Charter School in Crown Heights held their eighth annual Walkout to End Gun Violence. Wearing orange shirts — the signature color for gun violence awareness — the students marched alongside members…
Jun. 5, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen In 1988, the year the Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps was founded, locals were regularly forced to wait for half an hour for an ambulance to arrive during a medical emergency. “Brooklyn in the 80s, it was the middle of the AIDS epidemic, the crack epidemic, and Bed-Stuy residents…
May. 30, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen There are just weeks to go until New York City’s June 24 primary election, and with early voting set to begin on June 14, New Yorkers are preparing to head to the polls. All 51 seats of the City Council are on the ballot this year, but some…
May. 29, 2025 By Anna Bradley-Smith A major rezoning plan that will dramatically reshape a swath of central Brooklyn — replacing low-lying industrial buildings with apartment towers containing potentially thousands of new units, including affordable ones — was approved by the City Council on Wednesday. The Atlantic Avenue Mixed-Use Plan rezones approximately 21 blocks along…
May. 22, 2025 By Matt Tracy As a customer, K. Kerimian always enjoyed visiting bookstores, but when they would ask workers about the whereabouts of the queer section, they started noticing a pattern. “I would be met with, ‘There isn’t one,’ or a catchall of ‘Here is all the marginalized identities,’” said K. Kerimian,…
May. 18, 2025 By Lloyd Mitchell Firefighters battled their second multi-alarm blaze of the weekend Sunday morning, following another intense fire in Brooklyn Friday evening. The first fire broke out shortly after 7 p.m. Friday, May 16, on the top floor of an apartment building at 289 Schenectady Ave. Engine Company 234 and Ladder…
May. 14, 2025 By Lloyd Mitchell Fire Marshals are investigating a fire that injured two residents in Crown Heights on Sunday morning. Firefighters responded to the blaze at 162 Troy Ave. in the Albany Houses, part of the New York City Housing Authority, shortly after 8:38 a.m. on May 11. Engine Company 234 and…