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Op-Ed | ‘No Criminality Suspected’: Holding Reckless Drivers Accountable in Brooklyn
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Traffic violence is ravaging neighborhoods across Brooklyn. In just the last two months, a string of reckless driving incidents have left several beloved neighbors, many of them seniors, dead. In...
‘It’s their identity’: Roll N Roaster sticks to tradition on National French Fries Day, despite past potato perils
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Since 1971, Roll N Roaster has been living by their motto, “You can have cheez on anything you pleez” — and this National French Fries day, they’re sticking with tradition.
Ionescu ignites New York Liberty past Chicago Sky in front of record-setting Barclays Crowd
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. In front of the biggest crowd ever to watch the WNBA at Barclays Center on July 11, the New York Liberty faced a challenge heading into the fourth quarter, holding on to a one-point lead against the Chicago Sky.
70-year-old Brownsville Recreation Center receives $160M for total reconstruction
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. A $160 million cash infusion will allow the city to demolish and completely reconstruct the decades-old Brownsville Recreation Center. The City Council and Mayor Eric Adams wrote the funding into...
Becoming a Brooklynette! NBA dance team to host open call auditions at Barclays Center
Kings County’s professional NBA dance team, the Brooklynettes, is holding auditions for the upcoming season. The aptly named team performs at all of the Brooklyn Nets’ home games at Barclays Center and supports the players during events both citywide and nationwide. The Brooklynettes also have extensive professional experience in music videos, film, TV, theater and more.
Brooklyn brownstones break records, home sale prices soar 45.3%
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Sale prices for all homes in Brooklyn set another record in the second quarter, market reports out today find. Tellingly, price per square foot — a more accurate measure — is also up.
Play on! Brooklyn Music School’s summer programs saved by last-minute crowdfunding concert
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Brooklyn Music School’s summer programming will live on, thanks to a last-minute benefit concert that raised over $500,000 for the Fort Greene institution. Facing financial difficulties, the school had...
Police searching for gunman who left victim with multiple gunshot wounds in Crown Heights
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. An investigation is underway in Crown Heights after a man was shot and injured outside of a local supermarket on July 10. Officers found the 33-year-old victim lying face up...
Activists rail against Hochul’s congestion pricing delay, call for accessibility upgrades to Bed-Stuy subway station
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. When Gov. Kathy Hochul made the eleventh-hour decision on June 5 to shelve congestion pricing, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority was forced to suspend $16.5 billion in previously-announced upgrades and projects.
Seventh annual Jamaica Bay Festival to bring Brooklynites closer to nature on July 13
Search our comprehensive guide to things to do in Brooklyn for more local events — or submit your own!. Brooklyn’s southern coast is lush with greenery, wildlife, and outdoor fun, and the seventh annual Jamaica Bay Festival on July 13 will give Brooklynites a chance to explore and celebrate it all.
Opa! Psaraki brings traditional Greek meals and family recipes to Williamsburg
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Psaraki, a new traditional Greek restaurant, will soon offer patrons a taste of Greece while simultaneously showcasing the amazing views of the Manhattan skyline from the Williamsburg waterfront. James Paloumbis,...
Dogs go for gold at inaugural ‘Pup-lympics’ in Brooklyn Heights
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Thirteen pups went for gold at the inaugural Pup-lympics on Saturday, July 6, at Hillside Dog Park, a 1.4-acre canine playground in Brooklyn Heights, recently voted one of New York City’s best dog parks.
Concern Pitkin opens in East New York with supportive, affordable units for seniors and formerly homeless Brooklynites
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. A new mixed-income affordable housing development dubbed Concern Pitkin opened its doors in East New York on July 9. The seven-story apartment building at the corner of Warwick Street and...
Williamsburg’s Crest Hardware to close after six decades in business
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. A well-known Williamsburg hardware store is closing next month after more than six decades in business. Crest Hardware & Urban Garden Center on Metropolitan Avenue will bid adieu to the...
Money malpractice: Ex-SUNY physician charged with grand larceny for million-dollar theft to support ‘lavish lifestyle’
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. The doctor will scam you now. The former chair of emergency medicine at SUNY Downstate Medical Center is facing criminal charges after he allegedly used his company credit card to steal close to $1.5 million from the institution.
‘Everything’s been ready’: L&B Spumoni Gardens to open in Dumbo this fall, manager confirms
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. For five years, Dumbo residents have been waited for the new L&B Spumoni Gardens on Old Fulton Street to open. For five years, the restaurant has remained dark. That’s soon...
Experimental anti-hate violence curriculum debuts at 3 Brooklyn middle schools, with hopes of expanding
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. With hate crimes across the city on the rise, some Brooklyn leaders believe that educating the borough’s students about and against hate and antisemitism is a key to fighting violence and bias. An experimental new curriculum designed to to just that rolled out at three local middle schools last school year, with the hope that it will eventually be used in all five boroughs.
Brooklyn Bridge Park’s ‘Movies With A View’ returns for blockbuster summer
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy’s beloved outdoor film series, “Movies With A View,” returns this Thursday, bringing back an almost 25-year-old summer tradition that has entertained more than half-a-million movie-goers since its inception in 2000.
Dill-ightful connections: Brooklyn Pickleballers find courts and community
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. In recent years, pickleball become America’s fastest-growing recreational sport. The Association of Pickleball Professionals estimates there are about 48.3 million pickleball players in the United States, and according to the Sports & Fitness Industry Association, the number of “picklers” has grown by 223.5% in the last three years.
Italian-style Gramercy ice cream shop Caffè Panna to open second location in Greenpoint
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Beloved Gramercy ice cream shop Caffè Panna is opening a second location this week in Greenpoint. The Italian-inspired sweet shop will be serving its newly perfected granita, the seven...
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