Jan. 12, 2024 By Isabel Song Beer
New York City Restaurant Week is back and better than ever with over 600 participating restaurants — 62 of them in Brooklyn.
‘You can feel the energy’: Brooklyn gets ready to celebrate NYC restaurant week
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24-year-old woman struck dead by driver in Brooklyn: NYPD
Jan. 12, 2024 By Meaghan McGoldrick
A 24-year-old woman is dead after she was struck by the driver of a vehicle in East New York on Thursday night.
Brooklyn woman charged with weapons trafficking, pushing drugs throughout the borough
Jan. 11, 2024 By Isabel Song Beer
A Brooklyn woman was charged in federal court with a five-count indictment of conspiring to illegally traffic 18 guns, and other illegal materials such as drugs, into the borough.
Tunnel below Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters destabilized 3 buildings, leading to vacate orders and emergency repairs: DOB
Jan. 11, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
Three buildings at Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters in Crown Heights have been hit with vacate orders after the discovery of an illegal tunnel beneath the complex, according to the Department of Buildings.
Prospect Park Alliance to open new Shirley Chisholm Welcome Center in Brooklyn’s Backyard
Jan. 11, 2024 By Jada Camille
The Prospect Park Alliance is transforming an old comfort station into a brand-new welcome center, and they are inviting Brooklynites to share their insight at an upcoming community workshop.
‘We are thrilled’: Center for Brooklyn History awarded $100,000 grant to hire archivist for Long Island work
Jan. 11, 2024 By Isabel Song Beer
The Center for Brooklyn History was awarded a $105,500 grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation to hire an archivist to help assist with recovering, organizing and increasing public access to the Center’s materials related to the history of Long Island.
Bed-Stuy’s historic St. Lucy-St. Patrick church demolished for housing
Jan. 11, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith
The historic St. Lucy-St. Patrick Roman Catholic Church, which has dominated a block of Bed-Stuy’s Willoughby Avenue since 1856, was torn down in clouds of dust this week to make way for housing.
Newly-engaged Bensonhurst couple start GoFundMe after apartment fire
Jan. 10, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
A newly-engaged Brooklyn couple are raising money after a fire destroyed their Bensonhurst apartment the same day they got engaged.
PHOTOS | Kensington students skate with Disney on Ice pros under the Brooklyn Bridge
Jan. 10, 2024 By Ximena Del Cerro
Students from PS 134 in Kensington hit the ice Wednesday during a field trip to Brooklyn Bridge Park, where they got a lesson from Disney on Ice’s professional skaters and performers.
Cracked under pressure! City to fix Coney Island sidewalks neglected after construction project
Jan. 10, 2024 By Jada Camille
Work to repair some unsightly Coney Island sidewalks, left in disrepair following an unfinished sewer project from years ago, is finally underway.