A Prospect Lefferts Gardens man has been indicted for allegedly purchasing parts for and building ghost guns, the Brooklyn DA announced Wednesday. File photo by Colin Mixson Sign up for our amNY Sports email newsletter to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams A Prospect Lefferts Gardens man has been indicted for allegedly […]
City set to open migrant center at Brooklyn Cruise Terminal as electeds send letter to Biden pleading for funds
Thirty-three local elected officials signed a letter to President Joe Biden Sunday, pleading with the White House for more funding to care for the thousands of Latin American asylum seekers pouring into the five boroughs as the Adams administration gets set to build a new emergency shelter for migrants at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal. The […]
Bay News: January 20, 2023
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Brooklynites eat and win big at first-ever BagelFest Winter Games • Brooklyn Paper
The next Winter Olympic Games won’t roll around until 2026, when snowboarders, skiers, and curlers will descend on Italy’s snow-capped mountains. But on Sunday, New Yorkers got a taste of that competitive spirit when the BagelFest Winter Games rolled – quite literally – into Downtown Brooklyn. “Bagels are an amazing food because they bring all […]
Brooklyn Academy of Music to spotlight art, activism, and voting rights at MLK Day tribute Jan. 16 • Brooklyn Paper
The Brooklyn Academy of Music will memorialize Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with weekend of events leading up to the 37th annual MLK Tribute on Monday, Jan. 16. The main event takes place on Monday when BAM staff, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, civic leaders and community members will join together to hear a keynote […]
Hochul lays out big plans for housing production, public safety in State of the State address
In her first State of the State address after being elected to a full four-year term last November, Governor Kathy Hochul on Tuesday laid out ambitious plans for tackling some of the state’s most pressing issues including an affordable housing shortage, high crime, a sprawling mental health crisis and workers’ pay not keeping pace with […]
Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn hospitals make new deals with employers, avoiding a strike • Brooklyn Paper
As a proposed nurse strike against unsafe staffing conditions draws closer, three hospitals reached pending contract agreements, joining a trio of other health centers who made similar strides earlier this week — and leaving over 8,ooo nurses to still fight for better work conditions. According to Nancy Hagans, president of New York State Nurse Association […]
Down the fire escape • Brooklyn Paper
84TH PRECINCT Brooklyn Heights—DUMBO—Boerum Hill—Downtown Down the fire escape A pair of thieves allegedly attempted to steal clothing from the Fulton Street Macy’s on Dec. 22. Cops said the pillagers entered the store near Hoyt Street just after 12pm, loaded up their arms with jackets and sweatshirts, and slipped out onto the fire escape without […]
Two-alarm Brooklyn fire guts home on New Year’s Eve, injures two residents
Residents embrace in a hug after a fire destroyed their apartment at 287 Arlington Ave. in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn on Dec. 31, 2022. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell Sign up for our amNY Sports email newsletter to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams Two Brooklyn residents were injured in a […]
Mill–Marine Courier: December 30, 2022
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Revisiting ‘Brown Girl, Brownstones’ | Brooklyn Based
Photo: Meredith Craig de Pietro This story is part of our “Brooklyn Classics” series, about well-known and underappreciated books set in the borough. Compared to other authors in our Brooklyn Classics series, Paule Marshall isn’t quite a household name, yet her book Brown Girl, Brownstones, first published in 1959, is a breathtaking achievement. A […]
Miniature recreations of beloved Brooklyn businesses capture spirit of the boro • Brooklyn Paper
Two days before Christmas Eve, Jack Giambanco was trying to finish his last customer order of the season — a miniature model of a local business twice the size of his usual pieces, which measure about six inches wide. Giambanco has achieved a measure of local fame in the last two years thanks to his […]
Adams administration coordinates response to winter storm with mayor out of town
Mayor Eric Adams’ administration handled the city’s response to flooding in coastal areas of Queens like Broad Channel and the Rockaways while reporters wondered where he was Friday. The mayor was absent from a Friday afternoon briefing that City Hall officials provided about the storm. According to First Deputy Mayor Lorraine Grillo, Hizzoner was outside […]
Firefighers take on Brooklyn blaze that broke out in private home
Sign up for our amNY Sports email newsletter to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams Firefighters quickly extinguished a fire that broke out in a Brooklyn home on Tuesday afternoon. At around 2 p.m. on Dec. 20, FDNY units responded to the fire at 88 Miller Avenue in East New York. Units […]
“All Souls” A Novel by Javier Marias – Brooklyn Bugle
by Alexandra BowieRelationships outside of family often come into existence through the expedient of contiguity, and may simply disappear once the the contact ends. It’s a resonant theme that has provided the grist for many stories about shipboard or vacation romances (and the risks they entail). The unnamed Spanish novelist who narrates Javier Marias’ engrossing […]
Thief tries to steal over a thousand dollars worth of liquor • Brooklyn Paper
The 60th Precinct station house. Photo by Jessica Parks Sign up for our amNY Sports email newsletter to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams 60TH PRECINCT Coney Island—Brighton Beach—Seagate Attempted liquor theft A jerk tried to make a $1,226 purchase from a liquor store on Neptune Ave with a […]
The Threads of My Life” A Memoir by Tracy Tynan – Brooklyn Bugle
by Alexandra Bowie Tracy Tynan, the daughter of the novelist Elaine Dundy (“The Dud Avocado” reviewed here and “The Old Man and Me”) and the theater critic Kenneth Tynan remembers clothes the way foodies remember meals: front and center. For Tynan, clothing is a sensual as much as a visual experience: her mother’s sealskin coat, […]
FIRST ON amNY | Gillibrand introduces bill to vacate, expunge nonviolent convictions for human trafficking survivors
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York) last week introduced a bill that would vacate and expunge non-violent criminal convictions for crimes committed by human trafficking survivors while they were in captivity. Gillibrand introduced the bill – dubbed the “Trafficking Survivors Relief Act” – along with her Republican colleague U.S. Senator Robert Portman (R-Ohio), according to […]
“The Ecliptic” a novel by Benjamin Wood – Brooklyn Bugle
by Alexandra Bowie Portmantle – part artist’s colony, part refuge – the setting of Benjamin Wood’s novel “The Ecliptic,” is on an island in the Sea of Marmara, reachable only by ferry from Istanbul. It’s a dreamy place removed from the world, where artists and writers, architects and playwrights can go to finish work away […]
Brooklyn Graphic: December 9, 2022
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A New Look at Mourning” by Miriam Weinstein – Brooklyn Bugle
by Alexandra Bowie We live in a society that has given up strict rituals. As a result, we’ve had a joyous explosion of life-affirming rites in our favorite locations, but it also means that we may have lost something, especially when it comes to death. Not so much our own deaths, but those of the […]
Council bill to bar landlords from running criminal background checks on prospective tenants faces pushback ahead of first hearing
A City Council bill that would mostly bar landlords from conducting criminal background checks on prospective tenants is facing intense backlash from a small group of council members, even as a majority of the body has signaled support for the measure. The bill, named the “Fair Chance for Housing Act” – Intro. 632-A, would prohibit […]
“Lab Girl” by Hope Jahren – Brooklyn Bugle
by Alexandra Bowie Hope Jahren’s memoir “Lab Girl” abounds in a sense of place, both Jahren’s lab, where many of her stories are set, and some spectacular outdoor settings. Jahren is a geobiologist who studies plant behaviors as measured by the amount of carbon and other elements in their structures, and her fieldwork takes place […]
December Culture Calendar: 10 events, films and shows to conjure the holiday spirit
Bloom by TILT, part of Lightscape at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Photo by Liz Ligon. As everyone discusses where to run when Twitter collapses, get back to what really matters and decide where to go in real life now, during a holiday season that feels relatively normal. (If you’re still feeling social anxiety, it might help […]
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