Dec. 8, 2023 By Melissa Fishman & Kirstyn Brendlen
More than 1,000 people gathered in Grand Army Plaza on Thursday night to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah by lighting the borough’s largest menorah.
Dec. 8, 2023 By Jada Camille Gen-Z’s childhood television crush and the penman behind popular modern R&B hits is moving out from behind the scenes and taking his rightful place at center stage. Leon Thomas III, a musical multi-hyphenate, serenaded a crowd of R&B lovers during his first Brooklyn show on Nov. 29 at Baby’s All Right, just a few neighborhoods over from where he grew up. The self-proclaimed lover-boy who started his career acting on Broadway and playing the goofy, musically-inclined Andre Harris on Nickelodeon’s Victorious, now spends his days writing romantic tunes drawn from real-life highs and lows….
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Dec. 7, 2023 By Isabel Song Beer
The JCCA has opened a new state-of-the-art clinical location in Downtown Brooklyn to help clients and their families with behavioral, foster care and educational services.
Dec. 7, 2023 By Gabriele Holtermann
Brooklyn’s unsung heroes from the nonprofit and business world were honored at Schneps Media’s Brooklyn Power List event at El Caribe Country Club Caterers in Mill Basin on Dec. 5, 2023, for their commitment and work in the Brooklyn community.
Dec. 7, 2023 By Jada Camille
The New York Immigration Coalition is hosting a holiday-themed resource fair in Sunset Park for immigrants and low-income families in need on Dec. 7.
Dec. 7, 2023 By Augostina Mallous
The driver who allegedly struck and killed a heroic Park Slope nanny nearly two years ago has been arrested and charged, the NYPD announced on Thursday.
Dec. 7, 2023 By Isabel Song Beer
An upcoming art exhibition in Red Hook will show illustrations of some of Brooklyn’s most popular watering holes through the perspectives of two different artists — Bill Roundy, a former Brooklyn Paper comic — and John Tebeau, illustrator of the book “Bars, Taverns and Dives New Yorkers Love.”
Dec. 7, 2023 By Isabel Song Beer
Following months of advocacy, legal plight and speculation activists in Greenpoint are preparing for victory after the sale of Park Church Co-Op was halted by New York State Attorney General Letitia James.
Dec. 6, 2023 By Kirstyn Brendlen
Brooklyn will once again welcome the new year with a fireworks spectacular at Prospect Park, officials announced last week.
Dec. 6, 2023 By Kirstyn Brendlen
A Christmas tree is twinkling in Cannonball Park for the first time in Bay Ridge history after a celebratory lighting ceremony on Nov. 30.