Nov. 21, 2023 By Jada Camille
Luna Park, one of Coney Island’s beloved amusement parks, has extended its summertime excitement into the winter months for the first time ever with Frost Fest, a holiday celebration full of winter activities.
Nov. 21, 2023 By Jada Camille
This winter, budding comedians, singers and entertainers can take the stage during a the Coney Island Open Mic series, hosted by the Coney Island Comedy Festival in collaboration with a New York-based Russian radio station.
Nov. 20, 2023 By Kirstyn Brendlen
Looking sharp!
Nov. 20, 2023 By Adam Daly
Firefighters quickly doused an all-hands fire that broke out on the first floor of a residential building in East Flatbush Sunday morning.
Nov. 20, 2023 By Melissa Fishman
For one group of 26 runners, this year’s TCS New York City Marathon was much more than a day of grueling running. Instead it was the measure of true grit, determination, and proving that they can do the impossible.
Nov. 20, 2023 By Anna Bradley-Smith
The city has placed a full vacate order on the large 1890s Romanesque Revival church on the corner of Bushwick Avenue and Cornelia Street in Bushwick due to its crumbling roof and other conditions, shutting down a thrift store that had been operating inside and throwing the building’s future into question.
Nov. 17, 2023 By Adam Daly
A 72-year-old woman was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver while crossing the street in Fort Hamilton on Thursday evening, police said.
Nov. 17, 2023 By Isabel Song Beer
The Brooklyn District Attorney has dropped criminal gun charges against southern Brooklyn Council Member Inna Vernikov after finding a key component of the gun she carried at a pro-Palestinian rally held at Brooklyn College was missing — rendering the weapon inoperable.
Nov. 17, 2023 By Isabel Song Beer
A fire ravaged a small Bushwick factory and left one firefighter injured on Thursday afternoon.
Nov. 17, 2023 By Isabel Song Beer Newtown Creek is known among local residents and environmentalists as being one of the most polluted ecological sites in the continental U.S. The creek, runs for roughly 3.5 miles between Greenpoint and Long Island City, Queens, is one of the heaviest-used commercial bodies of water in the country. Industrial refineries line the bank of the creek and are responsible for managing recycled waste, sewage and — in the case of the 110 acre National Grid facility — volatile liquefied natural gas. It seems that since the dawn of industrialization in the region, the…
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