Jul. 17, 2025 By Megan McGibney It could have been just another morning at P.S. 176 The Ovington School in Dyker Heights, but on June 12 — just days before the end of the school year — more than a dozen parents lined up outside the school holding signs and chanting: “Protect our children!…
Jul. 17, 2025 By Olivia Seaman Get ready to dig in. NYC Restaurant Week is back, giving Brooklynites a chance to taste their way across the city without breaking the bank. NYC Restaurant Week returns July 21 through Aug. 17, presented by Founded by NYC as part of the city’s 400th anniversary celebration. Participating…
Jul. 16, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen Ten years after it opened, the beloved East Williamsburg music venue Our Wicked Lady will permanently close its doors on July 21. The COVID pandemic and its aftermath left the gritty but thriving venue with significant financial struggles. Late last year, owners Zach Glass and Keith Hamilton started…
Jul. 16, 2025 By Barbara Russo-Lennon New Yorkers might get a new way to travel from Brooklyn to Staten Island as the NYC Ferry system proposes big changes to some of its routes. The potential NYC Ferry route would connect Bay Ridge to St. George Terminal on Staten Island’s North Shore, where the city’s…
Jul. 16, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen An appellate judge on Tuesday halted the city’s plans to remove part of the protected bike lane on Bedford Avenue. The decision came in response to an appeal filed by advocacy group Transportation Alternatives and local Baruch Herzfeld, whose lawsuit against the city and Mayor Eric Adams was…
Jul. 16, 2025 By Olivia Seaman At Foolproof in Williamsburg, the whiskey glows before you even walk in. Through wide windows on Driggs Avenue, near the L train and McCarren Park, nearly 500 bottles shimmer on a backlit wall. It feels less like a bar display and more like an invitation. The invitation comes…
Jul. 15, 2025 By Gabriele Holtermann Namel Colon, 39, will spend the next 25 years in prison following his guilty plea to first-degree manslaughter for fatally shooting Jennifer Ynoa inside a Brooklyn smoke shop, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced July 15. Ynoa, 36, was inside Salim Smoke Shop at 488 DeKalb Ave. in…
Jul. 15, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen A proposed development just north of Bushwick Inlet Park is stirring controversy among locals before the official rezoning process has even begun. Developers are hoping to build a mixed-use high-rise building at 40 Quay St., an MTA-owned lot that currently houses a truck wash station, as well as…
Jul. 15, 2025 By Gabriele Holtermann Brooklyn’s champions for the borough’s small and large nonprofits, Brooklyn Org (BKO), have announced the launch of Brooklyn Org Microgrants, a new funding stream designed to strengthen smaller Brooklyn-based nonprofits. The program aims to fill the funding gap for nonprofit neighborhood groups that might not otherwise qualify for…
Jul. 15, 2025 By Olivia Seaman Just ahead of National Hot Dog Day on July 26, Nathan’s Famous is reminding New Yorkers — especially Brooklynites — that all subway lines lead to the borough’s most iconic bite. Earlier this year, the MTA released its first fully redesigned subway map in nearly half a century.…