Apr. 29, 2025 By Regina Martinez On a triangular lot between Myrtle Avenue and Hart Street, under the M line, Emily Burns serves a latte at Til Death — a coffee shop with no walls and no roof. Burns and her business partner, Megan Brosi, opened the outdoor café during the pandemic to give…
Nov. 18, 2024 By Adam Daly The New York City Police Department is renewing its appeal for public assistance in identifying a group of suspects accused of assaulting a couple during an alleged anti-Palestinian attack in Fort Greene last month. The incident, which is being investigated by the NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force, occurred…
Dec. 22, 2023 By Gabriele Holtermann & Meaghan McGoldrick O’Neil
A cardboard cutout crossing guard stood guard at a busy Brooklyn intersection Thursday — the very same one where 7-year-old Kamari Hughes was fatally struck by the driver of an NYPD tow truck nearly two months ago.
Nov. 23, 2023 By Anna Bradley-Smith
If you’ve wandered around the intersection of Knickerbocker and Myrtle avenues in recent weeks, you may have wondered what has become of the 90s Hollywood-inspired Burger King. A green construction fence has gone up, the space has been gutted, and workers are buzzing around the site.
Oct. 27, 2023 By Adam Daly
An NYPD Traffic Enforcement Agent has been arrested in connection with the death of a 7-year-old boy who was fatally struck by a police tow truck as he crossed the street with his mother in Fort Greene on Thursday morning.
Oct. 25, 2023 By Isabel Song Beer
Bushwick and Bedford-Stuyvesant residents have reason to rejoice, as the popular grocery store Food Bazaar Supermarket is reopening at its previous location on Myrtle Avenue after undergoing building renovations.
Jun. 6, 2023 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell
A two-alarm fire burned through a Bedford-Stuyvesant post office on the morning of June 5.
Feb. 21, 2023 By Jada Camille
Business is booming in northern Brooklyn, and Myrtle Avenue is hosting its first-ever Restaurant Week until next Sunday. Feb. 26.