Two Brooklyn teens were blasted in the back during separate broad daylight shootings Wednesday morning, police said. Gunfire erupted on the corner of Macon Avenue and Nostrand Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 9:15 a.m. when a gunman opened fire, striking a 17-year-old in the back, according to authorities. He was taken by EMS to Kings County Hospital […]
New Businesses Coming to Foster and Coney
A supermarket and two medical providers have signed long leases at 1041 Coney Island Avenue – the recently completed residential building on the corner of Foster and Coney Island Avenues on the edge of Ditmas Park. Delight Bazar Supermarket, a South Asian grocery chain, has rented the largest of the retail spaces – 6,500 square […]
Window-painting contest returns – The Brooklyn Home Reporter
As this year’s Ragamuffin Parade fades into memory, we can now look forward to the Bay Ridge Community Council’s 71st annual painting competition. For many years, it was known as the Halloween Art Window Painting Contest, but it has been rechristened as the Fall Art Poster and Window Painting Contest. According to BRCC Executive Secretary Maria Makrinos, the […]
Long Island Man charged in $925,000 Deed Fraud Scheme in Brooklyn and the Bronx
Salome Vega, 46, of Hempstead, New York, was arraigned on charges of grand larceny and criminal impersonation for allegedly transferring and selling titles of properties in Brooklyn and the Bronx, totaling approximately $925,000, according to Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. The charges also include an attempted theft of nearly $300,000 in COVID-19 tax relief payments. […]
Sixty people taken into custody in connection with NYC protests
Sixty people were taken into custody in connection with Friday’s pro-Palestinian demonstrations in NYC, including a Brooklyn woman charged with assaulting a police officer, police said. “Sixty persons were taken into custody, the vast majority summonsed and released on disorderly conduct,” an NYPD spokesman said Saturday. Fifty-seven summons were issued in Brooklyn and three in […]
New Crosswalks By The Parade Ground
I could never understand why the Parade Ground entrance facing Prospect Park had no crosswalk. The sports fields stretch over 40 acres, offering everything from soccer to basketball to baseball to tennis courts, serving tens of thousands of residents. Of course, there is no gate to the park there either, but for decades, locals of […]
Firefighters hurt in car wash blaze
Two firefighters were hurt Tuesday during a two-alarm blaze in Hollywood Car Wash on Coney Island Avenue and Albemarle Road. Firefighters battle the flames at Hollywood Car Wash. Photos courtesy of Loudlabs News NYC The fire began at 1:24 a.m. and was under control by 3:38 a.m. FDNY said 25 units and 106 firefighters and […]
Pickleball comes to Brooklyn Heights
Players of all skill levels tried their hands at Pickleball on Sunday when the Montague BID and Brooklyn Heights Association transformed Montague Street into Pickleball courts, as part of the Open Streets activities. Photo: Mary Frost, Brooklyn Eagle Source link
Kim Petras parties with Julia Fox, celebs after Brooklyn concert
Kim Petras shut down a private New York City club with her celebrity pals after performing a sold-out concert Monday night, Page Six has exclusively learned. We hear the “Unholy” singer held an afterparty at Zero Bond in Noho that lasted until 2:30 a.m. Tuesday. Her guests included Julia Fox, Tiffany Haddish, “Gossip Girl” reboot […]
Weekend Ahead
It seems that just about everything will be happening next weekend – arts, fairs, outdoor dance parties: Brooklyn Book Festival all week culminating on October 1 Downtown Atlantic Antic on October 1 Downtown Brooklyn Arts Festival September 29/30 New York Burlesque Festival kicks off at Bell House on September 28 Artmageddon takes over Ditmas Park […]
On the Avenue: Parade, Festival bring thousands to Third Avenue
What a weekend! Tens of thousands of people flocked to Third Avenue in Bay Ridge to take part in two family-friendly events that make up the neighborhood’s biggest weekend of the year — the 57th annual children’s Ragamuffin Parade and the 50th Annual Third Avenue Festival. After braving torrential rains for much of the week, […]
Last ‘Route Boys’ member pleads guilty, ending multi-year investigation
A sweeping investigation into the criminal activities of a group known as the “Route Boys” culminated on Friday as Eric Nunez, the last of 13 defendants, pleaded guilty in federal court in Central Islip, New York. The charges spanned a 22-count superseding indictment, which included drug distribution, use of firearms, pharmacy burglaries, and ATM thefts. […]
Sicko commits disturbing sex assault on NYC subway train
A Brooklyn sicko stood above a sleeping 22-year-old female straphanger on an N train in Greenwood Heights and ejaculated on her face early Friday before fleeing, cops said. The disturbing sex assault occurred as the southbound train was approaching the 25th Street station around 4:20 a.m., police said. The victim was riding a southbound N […]
We’re Not Under a Rock, Mayor Adams, We’re on a Shrinking One
After seven inches of rain punished New York City on Friday, Mayor Eric Adams took almost a whole day to make his first comments about a storm that effectively ground his city, the country’s largest, to a halt. After having seven separate public events without acknowledging the storm, Adams finally commented, lashing out at the populace, that […]
Fort Hamilton cadets pay tribute to fallen
A company of Army Junior ROTC cadets from Fort Hamilton H.S. once again participated in the annual Tunnel to the Towers Run and Walk on Sept. 24. The cadets took up posts along West Street in Manhattan, where they held large banners displaying photos of firefighters who died at the World Trade Center on 9/11. As […]
In Rockaway, scuba divers’ passion for the sport becomes a mission to collect undersea litter
The divers’ haul one late-summer Sunday wasn’t much, but there were clumps and clumps of fishing line untangled from underwater objects. What the divers can’t pull away by hand is cut with scissors. “Unfortunately, tons of crabs and horseshoe crabs — which are under threat — get tangled in the fishing line and then they […]
32-year-old man fatally stabbed overnight in NYC
A 32-year-old man was stabbed to death in front of his girlfriend near a Brooklyn bus stop early Monday — by an unhinged attacker who seethed “What’re you looking at?” before lunging at him, police sources said. The suspect, who has not been publicly identified, was acting erratic and knocking over scooters near the B38 […]
Streets, Migrants, And More
The weather has turned pleasant and just about every neighborhood in Brooklyn wants you to come out and enjoy all it has to offer — from Atlantic Antic Downtown, 3rd Avenue Fair in Bay Ridge, art crawls in Ditmas Park and Prospect Lefferts Gardens, to lots of literary events to go with the Brooklyn Book […]
On the Avenue: Bay Ridge’s biggest weekend offers lots of fun for families!
It’s finally here! Bay Ridge’s biggest weekend kicks off on Saturday, Sept. 30 as thousands of costumed children and parents are expected to march in the 57th annual children’s Ragamuffin Parade, stepping off “on the avenue” at 1 p.m. from 76th Street to 92nd Street. The following day, tens of thousands more families will attend […]
Transformative Brooklyn Book Festival concludes this weekend with celebratory Festival Day in Borough Hall Park
BOROUGH HALL PLAZA — The centerpiece Festival Day (Sunday, Oct. 1) takes place in the parks and plazas surrounding Downtown Brooklyn’s Borough Hall and other venues, with seven stages overflowing with conversation, as diverse authors of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, comics, graphic novels, and young adult literature come together to converse, read and sign books throughout […]
Joe Jonas spends quality time with daughters amid contentious Sophie Turner divorce
Joe Jonas was spotted enjoying a daddy-daughter day with his two kids, Willa and Delphine, amid his contentious divorce from Sophie Turner. In photos obtained by Page Six, the Jonas Brothers member was photographed carrying his 3-year-old toddler into Twinkle Playspace in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Wednesday. Jonas, 34, donned a blue striped shirt and jeans […]
The Brooklyn Book Festival Returns
The Brooklyn Book Festival kicked off its annual celebration of all things literary Sunday. The weeklong celebration brings together authors and readers for conversations and readings across Brooklyn, culminating on October 1, when the Brooklyn Borough Hall Plaza and Columbus Park will transform into a sea of stories, hosting local and national bookstores. The Festival’s […]
Help support this year’s Ragamuffin Parade
The Ragamuffin Parade Committee is urging adults who marched as youths in past parades and parents of kids who want to participate to attend a “Fun Fundraiser” on Sunday, Sept. 24. The committee has hosted the colorful Bay Ridge children’s parade since 1967. The Ragamuffin mascot. Eagle Urban Media/file photos Forgoing the catered luncheons of previous […]
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
ON THIS DAY IN 1904, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “The business of electing a President has no analogy in the commercial world. It is even more than a business — almost a science, certainly entitled to rank as a profession. It is a thing of magnitude. No enterprise which employs men by the thousand […]
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