Jul. 9, 2025 By Shane O’Brien When 80-year-old Carole Bellitti and her 50-year-old son John received word in March confirming they had been pre-approved for the CityFHEPS housing voucher program for low-income households, they thought their prayers had been answered. Carole and John, who were evicted from their southeast Brooklyn home in March after falling…
Jul. 9, 2025 By Anna Bradley-Smith An affordable housing lottery has launched for a recently completed nine-story development in Fort Greene dubbed The Elliot, with units starting at $2,004 a month for a studio. Rising at 151 South Elliott Place, on the site of a former parking lot, the development comprises a total of…
Jul. 8, 2025 By Barbara Russo-Lennon Two new elevators opened at the Bay Ridge-95th Street subway station, on July 8, making it accessible for all commuters for the first time. “This is a crucial connection in Bay Ridge,” said Quemuel Arroyo, the MTA’s chief accessibility officer. “It hasn’t always been easy for me to…
Jul. 8, 2025 By Gabriele Holtermann Days after President Donald Trump signed the “Big Beautiful Bill” into law, a coalition of advocacy and political action groups rallied alongside 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers outside U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis’s office in Bay Ridge, speaking out against the drastic federal cuts to Medicare and Medicaid that could…
Jul. 8, 2025 By Gabriele Holtermann Brooklyn-based filmmaker Christian Hendricks creates intimate short films that are raw, stylish and a little dangerous, capturing a specific kind of queer, creative life in Bushwick. Brooklyn Paper recently sat down with Hendricks to talk about his work, his process and the stories that draw him in. Hendricks,…
Jul. 8, 2025 By Olivia Seaman Just one year ago, Caitlin Maestrini opened the doors to Teak New York’s flagship location at 34 Norman Ave. in Greenpoint. The 4,000-square-foot space marks a major leap from the modest 600-square-foot storefront she had founded a year earlier. “I knew it was going to be a huge…
Jul. 7, 2025 By Olivia Seaman After more than a decade of operating behind the scenes, She Wolf Bakery has opened its first-ever customer-facing space inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Known for its commitment to local sourcing, the beloved bakery now has a brick-and-mortar café, a long-awaited step for the team that began baking…
Jul. 7, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen A Manhattan judge last week tossed a lawsuit against the city’s plan to overhaul Fort Greene Park, and the project may finally be underway early next year after years of delay. The suit, filed against the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation by local advocacy group Friends of…
Jul. 7, 2025 By Sienna Conaghan Following the New York Liberty’s first WNBA Championship last season, all eyes have been on Barclays Center. The Liberty had reached the finals five times before but finally captured a title that had long proved elusive. The triumph brought a surge of excitement to New York, a city…
Jul. 7, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell A two-alarm house fire in Bed-Stuy displaced 11 people and injured two, including a firefighter, on Saturday. The blaze broke out on the second floor of a two-family home on the 500 block of Halsey Street at 9:30 a.m. on July 5, according to the…