Aug. 15, 2025 By Olivia Seaman For the next 10 days, the stretch of 18th Avenue from 68th to 75th Streets in Bensonhurst will transform for the 51st annual Santa Rosalia Feast, a tradition that blends Italian roots with Brooklyn pride. The festival kicked off Thursday, Aug. 14, and runs through Sunday, Aug. 24.…
Aug. 15, 2025 By Olivia Seaman With the first day of school approaching, Brooklyn is buzzing with community-led backpack drives aimed at giving students the supplies they need to start the year prepared. Local organizations are working to ensure children head into the classroom prepared and ready to learn. The New York Restoration Project…
Aug. 14, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell Advocates are demanding the release of a Brooklyn high school student who was arrested by ICE after a routine immigration hearing last week. Mamadou Mouctar Diallo, a 20-year-old asylum-seeker from Guinea, was detained at 26 Federal Plaza on Aug. 4. Diallo’s asylum case — he…
Aug. 14, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen A centuries-old New England legend about the famous pirate Sam Bellamy and his love, Mary Hallett, is coming to Red Hook. “The Royal Pyrate,” a new musical that reimagines Bellamy and Hallett’s tale in swashbucking style, will sweep into the historic Waterfront Museum for six performances starting Aug.…
Aug. 14, 2025 By Emily Davenport It’s official: the Carolina-born chicken chain Bojangles is coming back to New York City after decades away, and its first new location is slated for Brooklyn. The restaurant chain is expected to open 20 locations across the Big Apple over the next ten years, with the first one…
Aug. 14, 2025 By Emily Davenport A new building focused on affordable housing and building community is coming to Boerum Hill. A 11,500-square-foot parking lot at 153 Nevins St. will be converted into 70 brand new affordable, rent-stabilized homes, the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development announced this week. The news comes on…
Aug. 13, 2025 By Gabriele Holtermann An abandoned, 60-year-old, five-acre pier at the MADE Bush Terminal on Brooklyn’s waterfront in Sunset Park is coming to life again as a vibrant public green space. Pier 6, once a bustling industrial hub, will be transformed into a recreational waterfront oasis for community residents and tenants of…
Aug. 13, 2025 By Gabriele Holtermann U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman (D-Brooklyn/Manhattan) returned to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park on Aug. 13, a week after he and Reps. Nydia Velázquez and Adriano Espaillat were improperly turned away during an unannounced visit to the notorious prison and hours after the federal Borough of Prisons…
Aug. 13, 2025 By Robert Pearl In one of the most heated and polarizing Republican primaries in recent Brooklyn history, Council Member Inna Vernikov emerged as the clear and commanding victor in Council District 48, defeating former Council Member Ari Kagan by a decisive 32% margin. The campaign left the southern Brooklyn GOP visibly…
Aug. 13, 2025 By Olivia Seaman Nearly 400 people gathered last week at the Ateres Golda Ballroom to celebrate the contributions of young people who spent their summer working across Maimonides Health’s hospitals and clinics. The Aug. 6 ceremony recognized almost 300 students from four youth employment initiatives, including 254 from the city’s Summer…