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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...
Tragic tide: Sisters swept away by rough Coney Island surf after hours
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Two women tragically died after being swept out to sea in Coney Island on Friday night. Two sisters, ages 17 and 18, were reported lost in the water near Stillwell...
Food Network’s New York City Wine & Food Festival drops star-studded lineup for big Brooklyn debut
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Chefs are sharpening their knives and prepping their menus for the return of the Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival this fall, marking a historic first as the event moves its home base to Brooklyn. The culinary celebration, now in its 17th year, will take place from Oct. 17-20 and feature a star-studded lineup of immersive tastings, master classes and more.
7-day service returning to Brooklyn Public Library after city rolls back budget cuts
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Seven-day service is coming back to the Brooklyn Public Library after Mayor Eric Adams and the City Council agreed to restore millions of dollars of funding for the city’s library systems.
Affordable housing lottery opens in long-time-coming South Williamsburg development
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. An affordable housing lottery has opened for 125 apartments in a long-in-the-works South Williamsburg development, with units starting at $544 per month. In a rare exception to the city’s housing...
‘If you build it, they will skate’: New skate park opens at Red Hook’s Harold Ickes Playground
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. A beat-up asphalt softball field in Red Hook has been given new life as a state-of-the-art skate park. The “underutilized” field at Harold Ickes Playground, formerly flat and aged, now...
Frankly unbelievable! New champion, Bertoletti, emerges in Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest, Sudo breaks world record
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. In a dramatic turn of events at this year’s Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, Patrick Bertoletti emerged victorious, devouring 58 hot dogs to claim the championship title after longtime victor Joey Chestnut was barred from the competition after inking an endorsement deal with vegan food giant Impossible Foods.
City plans to revitalize Brooklyn’s Flatbush Avenue with new bus lane
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. The city is again planning to build a bus lane along Brooklyn’s Flatbush Avenue, aiming to speed up commutes on the primary thoroughfare crossing the borough. The Department of...
Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest competitors set to feast for glory without Joey Chestnut
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. What do ketchup and Joey Chestnut have in common? You won’t see either of them on a frankfurter at the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest this year.
Queens man jailed for manslaughter in connection to fatal Crown Heights crash
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. A 25-year-old man was sentenced Tuesday to three to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree manslaughter. The charges arose from a 2023 incident in Crown Heights, where he sped through red lights, crashed into another vehicle, and killed a man, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said.
Protesters urge Schumer to expand Supreme Court following immunity ruling for presidents
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. A day after the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling that Donald Trump — and future presidents — are immune from prosecution for any of their official acts in office, activists with Indivisible Brooklyn and Rise and Resist gathered for a rally at Grand Army Plaza, where they called on Sen. Chuck Schumer to expand the Supreme Court.
Crime dips slightly in Brooklyn in June despite spikes in gun violence, rape, and robbery
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Violent crime in Brooklyn was down slightly during the month of June, according to the most recent police data, but the borough still saw a significant number of shootings and sexual assaults.
Lantern gifted to Brooklyn Botanic Garden to ‘cast light on everlasting peace’
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden was gifted a peace lantern from the Portland Japanese Garden’s Japan Institute last week as a symbol of peace and cultural exchange. The stone lantern,...
Op-ed | Credit Card Competition Act would put Brooklyn ahead of Wall Street
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. As a grocer in a neighborhood where a third of customers qualify for SNAP (food stamps) keeping prices low is a top priority at Three Guys From Brooklyn. We haggle with suppliers every day and are an open-air market with more outdoor space than indoor. For years, our awning read “The Original Poor People’s Friend.”
Urban Outfitters shutters last Brooklyn storefront on Atlantic Avenue
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. After closing its Williamsburg outpost in April, Urban Outfitters shut its last remaining Brooklyn store last month. The closure came with little fanfare, and the location is still listed on the retailer’s website.
‘A chance to say thank you’: Bay Ridge Center hosts annual ‘Giving Celebration’ to thank community
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Bay Ridge Center, the lead community organization for older adults, showed some love to supporters during its annual “Giving Celebration” and awards ceremony on June 29. This year,...
What’s cooking? Major league eaters prepare for the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. If taking part in the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest is an extreme sport, preparing all those dogs in the Nathan’s Famous kitchen is a carefully-choreographed dance. At...
Bay Ridge restaurant South Brooklyn Foundry closes after nine years in business, ‘Kitchen Nightmares’ drama
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. South Brooklyn Foundry, a beloved Bay Ridge restaurant, has closed its doors for good after almost nine years in business. The closure comes after the eatery, at home on lower...
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