Brooklyn news

News, events, shopping, deals, jobs, meetups, classifieds, reviews, attractions and much more!

  • Home
  • News
  • Lifestyle
  • Entertainment
  • Sports
  • Business
  • Events
  • Meetups
  • Reviews
  • Gallery
  • Jobs
  • Real estate
  • Classifieds
  • Contact
  • Privacy
LinkShare_468x60v1

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Brooklyn Eagle

March 31, 2023

ON THIS DAY IN 1918, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “In the presence of an assemblage thoroughly representative of the borough, with a great searchlight from the Eagle tower illuminating the scene, and with a reverent ceremony that betokened full appreciation of what the celebration meant, the hands of the clock on Borough Hall were […]

Filed Under: News

NYC teens arrested climbing Williamsburg Bridge tower in Brooklyn

March 30, 2023

Five teenage boys were arrested for climbing one of the Williamsburg Bridge towers on Wednesday night, police said. Four 16-year-olds and a 13-year-old were seen by passersby on the Brooklyn-side tower of the bridge around 7 p.m., cops said. Several witnesses called 911 to report the dangerous stunt and police responded. Police escort the five […]

Filed Under: News

Extended Care Unit For Patients With Severe Mental Illness Opens at H+H Kings County

March 29, 2023

The new unit works on rehabilitating and reintegrating patients into the community, allowing longer in-patient stays at the hospital. Source link

Filed Under: News

Fontbonne opens season with a win and a prayer

March 28, 2023

Fontbonne opened its varsity softball season in Marine Park with a 5-1 win over Queens rival St. Francis Prep.  Before the game, Fontbonne head coach Frank Marinello assembled the Bonnies and the Terriers in a prayer circle to remember Joe Lewinger, the 2020 Girls CHSAA Brooklyn-Queens softball commissioner from The Mary Louis Academy. As this […]

Filed Under: News

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Brooklyn Eagle

March 27, 2023

ON THIS DAY IN 1906, a Brooklyn Daily Eagle editorial said, “The proposal to put ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ on the restricted list, with ‘The Decameron,’ ‘The Launching of the Ship’ and Shaw’s plays, in our public library, resulted in some literature from Mark Twain that was worth at least two cents a word, […]

Filed Under: News

NYPD probing two overnight NYC home invasions

March 26, 2023

A group of gun-toting thugs stormed into a Brooklyn home before dawn Saturday, stealing thousands in cash and leaving the residents bloodied — as cops are probing if the same suspects may have struck in Queens just a few hours later. Five gunmen in ski masks forced their way through the ground floor window of […]

Filed Under: News

Are You Listening, MTA? Brooklyn Bus Network Redesign Faces Objections From Every Community Board

March 25, 2023

On March 9th, the MTA held its final virtual meeting for the draft Brooklyn Bus Network Redesign. It informed local community boards of proposed changes at incredibly poorly advertised and sparsely attended sessions, and it will be many months before the MTA issues its final plan.   There are few reasons to be confident it […]

Filed Under: News

On the Avenue: Third Ave. set to host annual St. Pat’s Parade

March 24, 2023

What better way to end the month of March than by marching down Third Avenue! The Bay Ridge St. Patrick’s Day Parade is finally here, with Grand Marshal Hon. Matthew D’Emic and his deputies stepping off “on the avenue” on Sunday, March 26 at 1 p.m. D’Emic will lead Deputy Marshals Scott Lloyd, Jimmy Nealon, […]

Filed Under: News

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Brooklyn Eagle

March 23, 2023

ON THIS DAY IN 1902, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “During the progress of the disastrous fire at the Park Avenue Hotel, in Manhattan, a fireman stood on the narrow ledge of ornamental masonry above the main doorway of the hotel and caught safely in his arms a young woman who crawled from the window […]

Filed Under: News

Escaped cow caught on video running around Brooklyn

March 22, 2023

This bovine busted a mooove in Brooklyn on Tuesday — escaping a slaughterhouse and wildly running through the streets of Canarsie. Video posted to social media captured a host of people chasing the renegade black calf through the neighborhood, including a man in an apron who tried to tug on the cow’s tail to stop […]

Filed Under: News

Parades, NYC Half, Veselka, Franklin Avenue, Sewage Tanks, PLG Landmarking, and more

March 21, 2023

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Brooklyn’s celebratory parade will be this Sunday at 12:30 pm, starting by the Bartel-Pritchard square (Park Slope/Windsor Terrace). The NYC Half Marathon will take over until 4 pm on the other side of the park. Politics & Crime Credit John McCarten/NYC Council Media Unit Politicians are demanding to close Rikers on […]

Filed Under: News

On the Avenue: Art Walk helps us ‘Embrace Winter!’

March 20, 2023

It’s finally here! Winter, that is. On the heels of the first nor’easter of the season (which was still tame locally by modern standards), art lovers are ready to officially “Embrace Winter” this weekend with the annual Embrace Winter Festival Art Walk! The event, sponsored by Bay Ridge Arts & Cultural Alliance (BRACA) in partnership […]

Filed Under: News

An avant-garde neighborhood joint – Brooklyn Eagle

March 19, 2023

Little Rascal’s facade. Photo: Yurek Akbar It’s early evening in mid-March, and a sharp breeze comes off the river as darkness sifts down on Greenpoint. The industrial atmosphere of this low-slung, working-class neighborhood in late winter is belied by 130 Franklin Ave., where the color and light emanating beyond the storefront’s classic black trim and […]

Filed Under: News

Ex-NYC newspaper editor Elliot Resnick charged over Jan. 6 Capitol riot

March 18, 2023

The former top editor of a Brooklyn-based newspaper was hit with federal felony charges Thursday for allegedly assaulting a police officer and pulling other suspected rioters through a door at the US Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot, according to prosecutors. Elliot Resnick, the ex-chief editor of The Jewish Press, was arrested in Manhattan Thursday […]

Filed Under: News

St Patrick’s Day Parades

March 17, 2023

Brooklyn’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade – the 48th – will be this Sunday, March 19. Since 2019, it has welcomed LGBTQ members to march along. Bands and marching units will parade from 15th Street & Prospect Park West, going down 15th Street to 7th Avenue, along 7th Avenue to Garfield Place, up Garfield Place to […]

Filed Under: News

Express ferry makes maiden voyage

March 16, 2023

The first express ferry from Bay Ridge to Manhattan sailed from the American Veterans Memorial Pier March 8. Although the estimated travel time is 21 minutes, bad weather lengthened the trip to half an hour. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office The express runs weekdays from 6:15 to 10:15 a.m. and stops only at Atlantic Avenue/Pier 6 […]

Filed Under: News

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Brooklyn Eagle

March 15, 2023

ON THIS DAY IN 1908, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “That Brooklyn and Long Island will, within a few years — possibly ten — realize a population of 4,000,000 is nowhere given greater assurance than in the remarkable development of the Eastern District, Brooklyn, and the Long Island City section in Queens. Through the Newtown […]

Filed Under: News

NY’s new Times Square migrant shelter was home to busiest US McDonald’s

March 14, 2023

Mayor Eric Adams is opening another two big emergency migrant shelters as the southern border crisis continues to push New York City to its limits — and President Biden has still not jumped in to help. One is set to open in Times Square’s vacant Candler Tower office building, which was once home to a 24-hour McDonald’s restaurant long billed […]

Filed Under: News

Taylor & Co. Books Plans To Reflect Ditmas Park’s Diversity

March 13, 2023

Neighbors “I hope to offer something that is representative of the neighborhood at large so that anyone, whether you’re coming from the mosque on Coney Island Avenue, or studying ancient Hebrew, whether you’re looking for a comic or Japanese manga (..) I want it to be as diverse as this neighborhood is.” Andrew Colarusso did […]

Filed Under: News

Parade mascot Seamus the labradoodle dies at 15

March 12, 2023

Seamus, the lovable labradoodle who served as mascot of the Bay Ridge St. Patrick’s Day Parade, died March 3, just a few days before his 16th birthday. The beloved canine was also a familiar face at local pet shop Paws Truly, which was run by his owners, Deirdre and Michael Butler, and he was named […]

Filed Under: News

Renovation of Brooklyn Heights archive for Asian art wins preservation award

March 11, 2023

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — A striking historical renovation in the colorful Fruit Street District of Brooklyn Heights has won a prestigious Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award. The New York Landmarks Conservancy will announce several winners of this award later this spring. A unique building at 23 Cranberry St., formerly the home of world-famous sculptor John Rhoden, […]

Filed Under: News

Lenient Brooklyn judge released violent gangbanger who is back behind bars

March 10, 2023

A New York judge with a history of going easy on criminals has come under fire for cutting a gangbanger a break in an attempted murder case — leaving him free to allegedly open fire near a school this week, wounding two teenagers. Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Matthew Sciarrino ignored prosecutors’ request to keep career […]

Filed Under: News

Crime Stats, Hamantaschen Doughnuts, Diners, Upside-Down Tree, And More Brooklyn News

March 9, 2023

Politics Comptroller Tom DiNapoli is investigating 82 payments, totaling almost $200,000, to Excelsior Waste and Recycling LLC, a company founded by former Bensonhurst Assemblymember Peter Abbate’s staffer Joseph Brady, who led an upstate biker gang while serving as Abbate’s top legislative aide, THE CITY reports. Councilmember Ari Kagan was removed from Finance and Land Use […]

Filed Under: News

Bay Ridge Home Reporter, March 7, 1958 – Plan may start on 73rd St. library

March 8, 2023

A second new library will begin to go up in Bay Ridge this spring, according to plans laid out for a branch at 73rd St. and Ridge Blvd., to replace a 70-year-old building at that site. Last week it was announced that a McKinley Park branch would begin to be built in April. The Board […]

Filed Under: News

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • …
  • 50
  • Next Page »


  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • RSS
  • Twitter

Brooklyn
◉
48°
Cloudy
6:40 am7:19 pm EDT
Feels like: 45°F
Wind: 14mph SSE
Humidity: 56%
Pressure: 30.26"Hg
UV index: 4
SatSunMon
68/39°F
50/37°F
59/50°F
Weather forecast Brooklyn, New York ▸




Tags

11201 article arts & culture arts and entertainment basketball books breaking news brewmaster's reserve brooklyn brooklynbridge brooklyn events brooklyn heights brooklyn life brooklyn nets bushwick buying real estate commercial real estate community coronavirus covid-19 cross post culture events featured health home page ideal week last week music music news nba nba atlantic news newyork newyorkcity nyc opinion politics real estate residential real estate sports uncategorized upcoming events weekend williamsburg





Compare hotel prices and find the best deal - HotelsCombined.com

Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked sources.