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Independent journalist arrested for allegedly vandalizing home of Brooklyn Museum board member
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. The second suspect behind an antisemitic graffiti spree that targeted the homes of Jewish members of the Brooklyn Museum’s board of directors, who is also an credentialed member of the New York City media, turned himself into police on Tuesday.
Clearing the air: 1,500 new trees at Green-Wood Cemetery will filter greenhouse gases, fight climate change
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. A tree grows in Green-Wood Cemetery — or, it will soon. An infusion of federal funds allocated to improve access to greenspaces and fight climate change will allow the...
Jeffries breaks ground on $850M G line accessibility upgrade in Clinton Hill
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. House Minority Leader and Brooklyn Congressman Hakeem Jeffries was back in his home district Monday morning to help ceremonially break ground on a federally-funded accessibility project on the G line.
Crown Heights man sentenced to prison for slashing straphanger in the face
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. A Crown Heights man will spend seven years behind bars for slashing a straphanger’s face on the subway last year. The defendant, Sean Lewis, was sentenced in Brooklyn Supreme...
New Utrecht High’s ‘Pigeon’ soars: Student paper amplifies unheard voices through poetry and activism
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Reporting from the halls of New Utrecht High School, student-run newspaper The Utrecht Pigeon aims to create an outlet where voices that are often disregarded are free to be expressed through poetry, writing and activism.
CenterLight Healthcare PACE reopens Bushwick center with Carnival celebration
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. CenterLight Healthcare PACE, a program offering all-inclusive care for adults aged 55 and older, celebrated the reopening of its Bushwick center on Aug. 1 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and Carnival celebration.
The Bushwick Film Festival is back this fall, and submissions are still open
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. The Bushwick Film Festival is set to return for its 17th year from Oct. 16-20 with a new theme, and submissions are still open through mid-August. This year’s theme, “Producing...
Krown Hardware to reopen in Bushwick after long hiatus
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Bushwick’s Krown Hardware store will continue its more than 70 year run on Broadway when it reopens to the public in its former building but in a scaled-down space.
Putting the ‘play’ in the People’s Playground! Brooklyn Sports Festival returns to Coney Island on Aug. 3
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. The Olympic Games are halfway over in Paris, but the fun is just getting started in Coney Island. On Aug. 3, the annual Brooklyn Beach Sports Festival will return to the People’s Playground.
Parks Department employee arrested in fatal shooting of migrant man in Clinton Hill
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. A 23-year-old Department of Parks & Recreation employee was arrested on Monday for allegedly killing a 30-year-old man last month in one of two violent incidents that left three men dead on the same night within just a few blocks.
Crane collapses onto Borough Park apartment building
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. A crane partially collapsed in Borough Park and smashed through the roof of an apartment building on Thursday afternoon. Firefighters, police officers, and paramedics swarmed the scene after the truck...
Divisive development in historic Crown Heights nears completion, affordable housing lotto opens
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. A controversial development on the site of a 19th century home for the aged in the Crown Heights North II Historic District appears to be wrapping up construction, and a housing lottery for pricey but income-restricted apartments has opened. Approved by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, the building at 959 Sterling Place was the subject of a lawsuit and has turned out much as expected, according to neighbors.
Boerum Hill French immersion preschool to expand this fall
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. A French language preschool in Boerum Hill will expand to Clinton Hill at the start of the new school year in September. Founded by Pascale Setbon in 2006, The Language...
Brooklynites bring sustainability and creativity together at 8th annual Kingsland Wildflowers Festival
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. The 8th annual Kingsland Wildflowers Festival, a nature-inspired arts celebration, welcomed hundreds of visitors over the weekend to explore a 24,000-square-foot green roof, listen to music, and see how the natural world and the artistic world often coincide and interact.
Man arrested for fatal shootings in Clinton Hill as city boosts security at migrant shelters
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. A man has been arrested in connection with two possibly gang-related shootings that left three men dead in Clinton Hill this month as the city grapples with a spate of violence at migrant shelters.
BP Reynoso tours T.E.A.L. community center ahead of Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Ahead of Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month in September, the Tell Every Amazing Lady About Ovarian Cancer Louisa M. McGregor Ovarian Cancer Foundation, known as T.E.A.L., hosted Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso for an in-depth tour of its community center in Windsor Terrace.
Brooklyn saw spike of gun violence, homicide in July despite overall crime decrease
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. A spate of shootings and homicides in Brooklyn marred what was otherwise a relatively crime-free month in the borough, per the latest NYPD statistics. Across Kings County, the overall rate...
Bay Ridge street renamed ‘Joanne Seminara Way’ in honor of beloved community leader
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Friends, family and former colleagues of the late Joanne Seminara gathered on Sunday, July 28 to celebrate the co-naming of 78th Street and Ridge Boulevard in her honor. The event commemorated the late legal eagle’s legacy, which continues to impact Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and surrounding communities.
Warm and fuzzy: Dozens of shelter pets find their fur-ever homes at Brooklyn Borough Hall adoption event
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Brooklyn’s cats and dogs might have said it was raining people on Saturday as dozens of shelter pets found their fur-ever homes at the third annual Adopt-A-Shelter-Animal event at Borough Hall.
Bay Ridge honors Dr. Ahmad Jaber with street renaming and AAANY expansion
Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Bay Ridge honored the life and legacy of Dr. Ahmad Jaber, the late co-founder of the Arab American Association of New York, on Saturday by co-naming a street in his memory.
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