Feb. 6, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
Workers at Brooklyn’s beloved Nitehawk Cinema in Prospect Park marched into a managers’ meeting on Tuesday and announced their intention to unionize.
Workers at Nitehawk Cinema in Prospect Park move to unionize
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Biden administration denies $800M infrastructure grants for BQE’s crumbling cantilever
Feb. 6, 2024 By Ben Brachfeld
The Biden administration has rejected the city’s applications for $800 million in infrastructure grants to redesign and reconstruct the crumbling triple cantilever section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, Brooklyn Paper’s sister publication amNewYork Metro first reported.
Branching out! Brooklyn Public Library challenges library-goers to ‘Browse the Branches’
Feb. 6, 2024 By Isabel Song Beer
Get ready to embark on a novel journey!
Cluck yeah! Raising Cane’s opens new location in Downtown Brooklyn
Feb. 6, 2024 By Melissa Fishman
Raising Cane’s, the beloved food chain with roots in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has opened its fourth New York City location — and just second spot in Brooklyn — inside Fulton Mall.
Brooklyn tax preparer faces three years in prison over $1.1M false return scheme
Feb. 6, 2024 By Adam Daly
Federal prosecutors announced Monday that the former owner of an East Flatbush tax preparation business has pleaded guilty to stealing $1.1 million through a three-year long false return scheme.
Southern Brooklyn prepares to welcome the Year of the Dragon with Lunar New Year celebration
Feb. 5, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
Brooklynites kicked off a month of Lunar New Year Celebrations at Il Centro Community Center in Bath Beach on Feb. 3.
New mid-block crossings on Atlantic Avenue aim to slow cars, increase pedestrian safety on ‘Boulevard of Death’
Feb. 5, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
Atlantic Avenue has three new mid-block pedestrian crossings, which the city and local pols hope will make the busy roadway — nicknamed Brooklyn’s “Boulevard of Death” — safer for Brooklynites traversing the corridor on foot.
On the lam! Sheep that escaped Brooklyn slaughterhouse settles in New Jersey sanctuary
Feb. 5, 2024 By Adam Daly
A lost lamb wandering the streets of Sunset Park was wrangled by cops Saturday after authorities believe she escaped from a nearby slaughterhouse.
‘It all started on 75th Street’: Tributes paid to Bruce Springsteen’s Brooklyn-born mother following her death
Feb. 5, 2024 By Adam Daly
Bruce Springsteen fans have been paying tribute to the singer’s Bay Ridge-born mother, who died Jan. 31 at the age of 98 following a battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
Fatal Boerum Hill fire claims one life and leaves three others, including toddler, in critical condition
Feb. 5, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell & Meaghan McGoldrick O’Neil
One person is dead and three others, including a toddler, are in critical condition Monday after a fatal fire in Boerum Hill Sunday afternoon.