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Coney Island Comedy Festival to return for fifth year

Upa inSpace performing at the Coney Island Comedy Festival.

Sep. 13, 2023 By Isabel Song Beer

The popular Coney Island Comedy Festival is back and better than ever for its fifth year. The festival, which is held at the Red Doors and Coney Island Brewery, will stretch over three days with a jam-packed lineup of local and traveling comics.

Two men shot at Stuyvesant Gardens complex: NYPD

Officers from Police Service Area 3 and 81 Precinct at the scene of a double shooting.

Sep. 13, 2023 By Isabel Song Beer

Two men were shot in front of a NYCHA apartment building in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Tuesday afternoon, according to the NYPD.

Firefighters quickly extinguish blaze in East New York home

Sep. 12, 2023 By Lloyd Mitchell Firefighters quickly snubbed out a bedroom fire in a private house at 937 Blake Ave. in East New York on Tuesday morning.   Units arrived on the scene to find fire venting out of a second floor window just after 11:45 a.m. Some 65 firefighters used one hose-line to…
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PHOTOS: Brooklynites mark 22nd anniversary of 9/11 attacks

Sep. 12, 2023 By Adam Daly & Jada Camille

Twenty-two years on from the devastating terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, Brooklynites came together to mark the solemn anniversary and to honor the lives of those lost on the day and afterwards.