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NYCHA leaves two Borinquen Plaza buildings without cooking gas for eight months, handing tenants one electric burner and no date

Two buildings at Borinquen Plaza in East Williamsburg have gone without cooking gas since February 18, leaving tenants at 101 Humboldt Street and 330 Bushwick Avenue to prepare meals on a single electric burner for roughly eight months, News 12 Brooklyn reported. Brooklyn Community Board 1’s district manager report confirms that both buildings, part of the New York City Housing Authority complex, remain without gas, dating to the same February morning.

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New York will require naloxone in restaurant and bar first aid kits starting in December

Starting Sunday, Dec. 13, nearly every bar, restaurant and nightclub in New York State will have to keep naloxone, the overdose-reversal drug sold as Narcan, in its first aid kit. In an email to food and beverage businesses, the city Department of Small Business Services said employers must include an opioid antagonist such as naloxone wherever federal law already requires them to stock first aid supplies.

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Developer files for a four-story, four-unit building on a vacant Bushwick lot at 1242 Madison St.

A developer has applied to build a four-story, four-apartment building on a vacant lot at 1242 Madison St. in Bushwick. The new-building application was filed with the city’s Department of Buildings on Friday, Nov. 6. It describes the project as a “4 story 4 family with penthouse + cellar,” and as of Nov. 9 it was in plan examiner review, according to the department’s DOB NOW filing records on NYC Open Data.

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Thousands of Chabad emissaries open Brooklyn conference as speakers urge Jewish pride and tighter security

Thousands of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries filled Brooklyn’s Major R. Owens Community Center on Thursday night for the opening general session of the Kinus Hashluchim, the international conference of shluchim, where speakers turned to security, Jewish pride and the challenge of sustaining Jewish life after October 7. Correction (November 13, 2026):

Brooklyn, NY · 1d
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Construction starts on New Lots Library’s mass timber rebuild, on a lot tied to East New York’s African burial ground

Brooklyn Public Library has started building a new New Lots Library in East New York, on a lot that the library and a 2023 archaeological study say covers part of a colonial-era burial ground where enslaved and free Black residents of the area were buried. The library marked the start of construction on Oct. 29 with a ground acknowledgment ceremony instead of a groundbreaking, according to a library release. The 1956 branch building is gone: the city signed off on its demolition on Oct. 9, Department of Buildings records show.

Brooklyn, NY · 1d

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NYC Parks brings its McCarren Park Union Avenue Plaza plan to Community Board 1 on Nov. 12

Brooklyn Community Board 1’s Parks & Waterfront Committee will meet Thursday evening to hear NYC Parks present an infrastructure plan for McCarren Park’s Union Avenue Plaza, one of several park items on the committee’s agenda. The meeting is set for 6 p.m. Thursday, November 12, at the Bushwick Inlet Park Office, 86 Kent Avenue, between North 9th and North 10th streets in Williamsburg.

Brooklyn, NY · 1d

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North Brooklyn street redesign paves the way for NYC's 'low-traffic neighborhood' plan

Plastic bollards around Driggs Avenue are designed to force cars to turn. After drivers kept running them over, community members installed concrete planters to help fortify the intersection. The city transportation department is using plastic bollards to push car traffic away from the streets around McGolrick Park. [ more › ]

New York, NY · 1d

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Newtown Creek Alliance Receives $500,000 in State Funding

Newtown Creek Alliance has received $500,000 in operational funding from New York state Sens. Julia Salazar and Kristen Gonzalez to support its work restoring the waterway and engaging communities in Brooklyn and Queens. The senators announced the funding Nov. 9 in Brooklyn. The grant will support the alliance’s environmental education...

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Food Bazaar takes over Western Beef in West Hempstead, drawing mixed reactions

News of Food Bazaar’s acquisition of Western Beef has sparked mixed reactions and curiosity among West Hempstead residents, with shoppers discussing what the changes may mean for their community. Western Beef is a low-budget supermarket chain in the metropolitan area. As of June 2018, the chain owned and operated...

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