Apr. 11, 2024 By Adam Daly
A Brooklyn pimp who pleaded guilty to the 2017 murder of his girlfriend and the sex trafficking of eight women was ordered 10 life sentences in federal prison last week.
Apr. 10, 2024 By Jada Camille & Lloyd Mitchell
An 87-year-old woman is dead after she was hit by a car left running in Gravesend on Wednesday afternoon.
Apr. 10, 2024 By Jada Camille
The site of Coney Island baseball fun is now also home to Brooklyn Football Club — the pro-soccer league coming to the area this summer. Team heads and local supporters gathered at Maimonides Park on April 10 for a ceremonial ribbon cutting.
Apr. 10, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith
An affordable housing lottery has opened for 203 newly constructed units across 30 neighboring buildings that are part of East New York’s Nehemiah Spring Creek development, an enormous, long in the works, truly affordable housing development on the site of a former wetland and later landfill.
Apr. 10, 2024 By Gabriele Holtermann
The “plant doctor” is in!
Apr. 10, 2024 By Jada Camille
The Brooklyn Cyclones, Coney Island’s minor league baseball team, delivered a 3-1 win to devout fans during the first home game of the season on April 9.
Apr. 10, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
After more than a year of construction, six new elevators opened at the Metropolitan Avenue/Lorimer Street stations in Williamsburg last week.
Apr. 9, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
A push to educate Orthodox Jewish women about their rights in marriage and divorce turned sour in Borough Park on March 29, when a group of women were attacked and their materials destroyed by a large group of men and boys.
Apr. 9, 2024 By Isabel Song Beer
The latest addition to Brooklyn’s bustling nightlife scene, Bar Madonna, officially opened its doors in Williamsburg last week, masterfully blending Italian-American cuisine, modern art and drink-making.
Apr. 9, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith
An early racially integrated school in what was once the free Black community of Weeksville but is now Crown Heights will not become affordable housing as planned after all, but instead will be converted into a homeless shelter.