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Brooklyn producers bringing the funk to the mountains | Arts & Entertainment

The weekly après party at the Aspen Art Museum will look a little different this evening. With Winter X Games amping up the scene in town, a one-off party is taking over the museum’s rooftop — it’s an event all about the funk. Coined as the “Winter Get Down” — presented by the New York-based […]

Man sentenced for fatal drunk driving crash on Gowanus Expressway • Brooklyn Paper

Sign up for our amNY Sports email newsletter to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams A man will spend years behind bars after drunkenly crashing his car on the Gowanus Expressway and killing the passenger sitting in the front seat.  Mark Dookhan, a 32-year-old Staten Island resident, was sentenced to 2 to […]

Drag Story Hour returns to Central Jersey

Who’s ready for storytime? Hudson County-based drag performer Harmonica Sunbeam is hosting a Drag Story Hour program on Saturday afternoon in Metuchen. Sunbeam currently hosts around 100 Drag Story Hour events each year. She makes her debut at Loving Bees NJ kids’ activity space on Oak Avenue at 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 28. The event, […]

Lawmakers reject Hochul’s Chief Judge nominee Hector LaSalle after 5-hour grilling; governor charges ‘outcome predetermined’

Albany lawmakers soundly rejected Governor Kathy Hochul’s nomination for Chief Judge, Hector LaSalle, on Wednesday, giving him the thumbs down after a nearly five-hour grilling at the State Capitol where he sought to defend his contentious judicial record. Ultimately, just two Senate Democrats — Luis Sepulveda of the Bronx and Kevin Thomas of Long Island […]

Canarsie Boy Becomes A Published Poet At Age 72

Gary Shulman’s poems about a Canarsie past have often graced the pages of this publication, evoking a sweet and moving nostalgia in those who experienced it as he did, in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, and now his work has been published as a collection, a book of poetry titled, Reflections from a Soul in […]

Bed-Stuy to get truly affordable complex with 238 apartments, food co-op, community programs • Brooklyn Paper

A new genuinely affordable housing development with 238 apartments for seniors and low-income families, a food co-op, workforce development program, and community-owned Internet service will rise on a huge vacant swathe at the corner of Fulton Street and Saratoga Avenue in Bed-Stuy, plans released by the city detail. The Steps at Saratoga, as the complex […]

We need our city workers more than ever • Brooklyn Paper

New Yorkers in the five boroughs rely on city workers. Some of these dedicated public servants educate children, clean and maintain roadways, protect lives and property, inspect buildings or connect and counsel those looking for work, to start a business or to get back on their feet. These services are essential, and provided by over […]

Can a middle school class help scientists create a cooler place to play?

“Take a look over your data sheet and make sure you know what all the words mean,” Sarah Slack tells her class of eighth graders. The students stop talking to each other and turn toward their science teacher, who is standing in front of a digital blackboard holding up a sample data sheet. “We’re going […]

Schneps Media buys Queens Post, expanding reach across ‘The World’s Borough’

Schneps Media, publisher of over a dozen news websites and more than 80 print publications across New York City, Philadelphia and Florida, announced its acquisition of Queens Post – one of the leading local news operations serving Queens and Brooklyn. Queens Post, consisting of 11 news sites in Queens and one in Brooklyn, was established […]

Brooklyn Beckham is proof that not all nepo babies are born equal

Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter Largely missed in the “nepo baby” discourse of December was the fact that the majority of nepo babies are… sort of great? Jeff […]

Adams defends saying the city can’t accomodate more migrants without help from feds

Amid news that New York City may well be receiving even more migrants, this time from Colorado’s Democratic Governor Jared Polis, Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday defended his comments that the city has reached capacity on the number of asylum seekers it can accommodate, pushing back on the notion that they were “callus.” The mayor […]

The Letdown Music and Comedy Show

Come see some of the best standups, improvisers, musicians, and sketch performers in New York City for Free! With past performers seen on Comedy Central, HBO Max, The Second City, and more! The Letdown is every Tuesday night 8pm at Halyards Bar. Enjoy local craft beer and food during the show. Despite the name, it’s […]

Book Adventures: It Looked Like Spilt Milk

Have you ever wondered what clouds are made of? Join Ms. Ann and find out! Today we will be reading–It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw. Afterwards we will be creating, cloud-like sculptures. Join us! The Mill Basin Library is located at 2385 Ralph Avenue. For further information  please call 718-241-3973.  Source link

Ed | Crystal’s Corner: 311 is good. We’re better. • Brooklyn Paper

Crystal’s Corner is a monthly column written by New York City Council Member Crystal Hudson (District 35), Chair of the Committee on Aging. I’m as local as it gets. My team and I see it all, and more: Noise complaints. Evictions. Alternate-side parking. Public safety. Sanitation. Our mission, since we’ve been in office together, is […]

🌱Southern Queens Floods In Storm + Hochul Nominates Next Chief Judge

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Brooklyn studio offers classes to make the glass making more accessible

A Brooklyn-based glass studio is working to make the art of glass making more accessible to crafty New Yorkers. Shiny Sparkle Labs is the creation of Dorie Gutherie and Matthew Day Perez, both of whom are art educators and formally trained in the glassmaking space. They both attended the University of Illinois and found themselves […]

Construction begins on $1.2B affordable housing project • Brooklyn Paper

Construction has begun on a $1.2 billion affordable housing project in East New York, Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Monday. Dubbed “Alafia,” the initial phase of the project will include 576 new affordable apartments, green spaces, an outpatient medical clinic and more. “We are not just building housing for the people of East New York, […]