Jun. 25, 2024 By Gabriele Holtermann
Healthcare workers, allies and elected officials rallied outside NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health in Coney Island on June 20 to demand a fair contract in light of high turnover rate and an alleged staffing shortage.
Jun. 25, 2024 By Jada Camille
Coney Island hoopers’ dreams have just gotten brighter, thanks to a $50,000 donation that rehabilitated the basketball courts at Surfside Gardens.
Jun. 25, 2024 By Jada Camille
Please don’t stop the music!
Jun. 25, 2024 By Adam Daly
Three southern Brooklyn representatives rallied Monday to urge the state’s Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) to deny the application for a proposed cannabis dispensary in Bay Ridge, after the local community board voted against it last week.
Jun. 24, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
The city has a new proposal for the battered triple cantilever portion of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Brooklyn Heights, but no matter how the administration chooses to overhaul the roadway, construction won’t start until 2029, a year later than the most recently-announced plan.
Jun. 24, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Erica Price
Scores of colorful mermaids and sea creatures braved scorching heat and a summer storm on Saturday for the 42nd annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade.
Jun. 24, 2024 By Gabriele Holtermann As New Yorkers head into the primary election on Tuesday — and as most eyes are on the hotly contested race between Bronx Rep. Jamaal Bowman and his challenger, Westchester County Executive George Latimer — another race has been heating up in Brooklyn’s 56th Assembly District, where first-time candidate Eon…
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Jun. 24, 2024 By Ximena Del Cerro
Three-point shot!
Jun. 24, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith An affordable housing lottery has opened for 35 apartments in a curvy development on the corner of Metropolitan and Bushwick avenues in East Williamsburg. The nine-story, 136-unit building at 828 Metropolitan Avenue has risen on the site of one of the many former gas stations in Brooklyn that have…
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Jun. 21, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith
The Brooklyn Edison Building in Downtown Brooklyn has become the borough’s newest landmark, after commissioners on the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously to designate the stately Renaissance Revival-style corner property.