Jun. 5, 2025 By Lloyd Mitchell Firefighters spent three hours working to contain a three-alarm fire that caused a building to collapse and left two others badly damaged at 920, 922 and 924 Lafayette Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Wednesday afternoon, officials said. The Fire Department began receiving multiple calls for the fire just after…
Jun. 5, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen In 1988, the year the Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps was founded, locals were regularly forced to wait for half an hour for an ambulance to arrive during a medical emergency. “Brooklyn in the 80s, it was the middle of the AIDS epidemic, the crack epidemic, and Bed-Stuy residents…
Jun. 5, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell A 43-year-old construction worker died from injuries he sustained in a partial roof collapse in Marine Park on Thursday. Workers were conducting repairs and installing a new refrigeration unit inside a rear addition to a closed steakhouse at 3223 Quentin Road just before 9 a.m.…
Jun. 5, 2025 By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil A 15-year-old boy has gone missing after leaving his home on Williams Avenue in Canarsie, and his loved ones are pleading with the community for help in bringing him home. Oladimeji Odeyemi, a student at one of Explore Schools’ Brooklyn campuses, was last seen leaving his home…
Jun. 5, 2025 By Regina Martinez In 1925, Ernest F. Coe, a landscape designer and nurseryman from Connecticut, donated a collection of Japanese trees and shrubs to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Now, a century later, the garden is marking the anniversary of that gift with a months-long tribute to the art of bonsai and…
Jun. 4, 2025 By Olivia Seaman Bari Pork Store, a beloved Italian deli and Bensonhurst staple, will close its doors for good on June 30, the owners announced this week. First opened in 1969, the establishment has been run by co-owners George Firantello and Tony Turrigiano for 26 and 37 years, respectively. Known for…
Jun. 4, 2025 By Barbara Russo-Lennon & Lloyd Mitchell An MTA utility truck crashed into a Greenpoint building before the morning rush hour on Wednesday, FDNY officials said. According to law enforcement sources, the truck, which was from the MTA’s Mobile Wash Unit, crashed into an apartment building located at 63 Franklin St. just after 5…
Jun. 4, 2025 By Gabriele Holtermann Emily Chandler, a special education and ELA teacher at PS 371K Lillian Rashkis High School — a District 75 school serving students with special needs in Sunset Park — had no idea she’d be heading home $25,000 richer when she arrived at work on June 3. Chandler was…
Jun. 4, 2025 By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil A series of upcoming blood drives in Brooklyn could be a lifeline for New York’s dangerously low blood supply, as the New York Blood Center on Monday declared a blood emergency following a sharp drop in local donations. With less than a one-to-two-day supply of critical blood…
Jun. 4, 2025 By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil Brooklyn will come alive with color, pride and purpose throughout June, culminating in Brooklyn Pride Day 2025 — a celebration unlike any other in the Northeast. The full-day event will take over Park Slope on Saturday, June 14, with a packed lineup of festivities, including the region’s…