Sign up for our QNS email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber said Wednesday he is confident that the MTA will get the $68.4 billion needed to fund the five-year capital plan unveiled the same day. The...

Sign up for our QNS email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Ahead of the 2024 general elections, a New York-based Democratic education and activist organization has launched a campaign focusing on dual residents to influence the outcome in critical swing districts—such as in Queens, Long Island and upstate.

Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Hours before former President Donald Trump was set to take the stage at a campaign rally in Uniondale on Long Island on Wednesday, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, the nation’s largest healthcare union, held rallies at Brooklyn’s Interfaith Medical Center in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Maimonides Medical Center in Borough Park. The rallies condemned Trump’s recent racist attacks and hateful rhetoric against Haitians.

Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. The historic Kellogg’s Diner is back with new owners, a new menu, and plenty of nods to its more than 100-year history in Williamsburg. Nearly a year after it...

Sign up for our QNS email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Ghost car drivers are in for a scare. Mayor Eric Adams and other top city officials held a press conference at the Springfield Gardens Auto Pound on Wednesday, Sept. 18th, to announce the launch of a joint NYPD and New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) task force to remove ghost cars from city streets.

Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. The City Council on Tuesday opened an ethics investigation into Brooklyn Council Member Susan Zhuang, who made headlines earlier this summer over her arrest for allegedly biting a cop during a protest against a new homeless shelter in her district.

Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. A brand-new indoor pickleball facility is making itself at home in Gowanus. PKLYN is a five court, eighteen thousand-square-foot facility that aims to enhance the overall game experience and give...

Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Brooklyn parents let out a sign of relief last week, after weeks of worrying where their children would go after school lets out. Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Friday that...

Search our comprehensive guide to things to do in Brooklyn for more local events — or submit your own!. Spooky season is upon us, and so is the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival — almost. The eight-day festival is set to return to Kings County on Oct. 17 with...

Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Bay Ridge residents gathered on familiar city streets over the weekend to bid farewell to another sweltering season at the End of Summer Block Party, hosted by the Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District.

Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. El Caribe was buzzing with excitement at the Ponce Bank Best of Brooklyn 2024 VIP Winners Event on Thursday, which brought together Brooklyn’s finest businesses and community leaders for an unforgettable evening of networking and celebration.

Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Brace for impact, Brooklyn: the Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live Glow Party returns to Barclays Center on Sept. 28. The event promises an electrifying experience for young fans, as the...

Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. A Park Slope pharmacy is launching a weeklong program offering New York residents free online doctor visits. Super Health Pharmacy, located on Fifth Avenue near Bergen Street, has partnered with...

Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday defended the Brownsville police officers who shot four people, including an NYPD officer, while pursuing an alleged fare-beater at the Sutter Avenue subway station on Sunday.

Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. The city took one step closer to cleaner, greener package delivery on Tuesday as the Department of Transportation advanced a delivery “microhub” pilot program. The hubs would give...

Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Dyker Heights was buzzing Monday as basketball icon Shaquille O’Neal was spotted filming scenes for the third season of the popular mob series “Gravesend” at the neighborhood’s basketball courts.

Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. An 11-year-old boy died on Monday Park Slope subway station in an apparent subway surfing incident, police said. The boy fell onto the tracks at the 4th Avenue-9th Street station...

Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Veterinarians, animal rescuers and nonprofit leaders packed City Hall on Friday for a six-hour hearing on the state of animal welfare in New York City. What is the state of...

Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Local leaders hosted a grand opening last week for a newly constructed playground at the Gravesend Houses in Coney Island, marking a long-awaited victory for the community. Council Member Justin...

Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Since the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, Coney Island resident Freyda Markow has embarked on a yearly pilgrimage across New York City every Sept. 11 to honor the memories of those who lost their lives on that fateful day and in its aftermath.