Mar. 31, 2025 By Barbara Russo-Lennon Road safety advocates are calling for more action to stop drivers from recklessly speeding after a mother and her three children were tragically killed crossing a Gravesend street on Saturday. The family, 34-year-old Natasha Saada and her two daughters, Diana, 8, and Deborah, 5, were killed when Miriam Yarimi,…
Mar. 31, 2025 By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil The People’s Playground is officially open. Luna Park in Coney Island welcomed guests back for the 2025 season with a festive two-day celebration over the weekend. The park opened its gates at 11 a.m. on Saturday, drawing thrill-seekers and families alike. A centerpiece of the opening day…
Mar. 31, 2025 By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil & Paul Frangipane Nearly 100 workers gathered outside the Brooklyn VA Medical Center last week to demand fair treatment and stronger labor protections, protesting what they called an attack on veterans’ services and the federal workforce by the Trump administration. Members of the American Federation of Government…
Mar. 28, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen When Crown Heights native Ty Brown got an email about working on a major television show last spring, he knew right away it would be a big deal, even though producers kept the name of the show hush-hush. But it quickly became clear. The critically-acclaimed drama “Severance” was…
Mar. 28, 2025 By Adam Daly A Bed-Stuy man is helping combat food insecurity and food waste in his neighborhood by offering fresh produce to anyone in need from the “community fridge” in his front yard. The Pulaski St. Community Fridge has been operational for over a week now and is already seeing steady…
Mar. 28, 2025 By Emily Davenport Cops are looking for two people who vandalized a Tesla in Bed-Stuy on Thursday. Police say that at 1 a.m. on March 27, two unknown individuals approached an unoccupied Tesla — which appeared to be a Cybertruck — parked in front of 730 Monroe St. The suspects proceeded…
Mar. 28, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen St. Joseph’s University, New York students aren’t often intimidated by signing up for a class with the school’s president Dr. Donald Boomgaarden, Ph.D. In fact, sometimes they don’t even realize who he is. Not long after he took over as president in 2017, a colleague mentioned they had a…
Mar. 28, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen A long-delayed project critical to the success of the Gowanus Canal Superfund cleanup reached an early milestone this week, as the city finished excavating space for a massive underground sewer overflow tank. The Red Hook tank — formerly known as the Head End tank — will catch 8…
Mar. 27, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen The party isn’t over for the WNBA championship-winning New York Liberty, which will open a state-of-the-art new practice facility in Greenpoint in 2027. The $80 million, 75,000-square-foot facility, to be constructed in an old lightbulb factory at the edge of the Newtown Creek, will be entirely funded by…
Mar. 26, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen New York City Fringe Festival, the annual indie theater bonanza, is back next month with new shows, new participants, and a whole new borough. This year, for the first time, the usually Manhattan-exclusive festival is stepping into Brooklyn, where four shows will play a total of 17 performances…