Republican Nicole Malliotakis has defeated Democratic incumbent Max Rose in the contentious congressional race in Staten Island and southern Brooklyn's 11th District.
The Brooklyn Public Library has appointed a new chief historian for the Center for Brooklyn History, who will serve as the institutional scholar for Kings County lore.
Six days into his tenure as Brooklyn Borough President, before his new website has launched or any policy decisions have been made, Antonio Reynoso has one thing to say: keep your cars off my plaza. Or, perhaps, our plaza.
"The greatest number of birds come to us from Manhattan, because we're close," co-founder and Director Rita McMahon said. "But Brooklyn is right there, right after, so this is to serve the people who love wildlife."
"Not only inappropriate for this location, but also casts extensive shadows over the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens' greenhouses and conservatories, which are unique, sunlight sensitive receptors."
When newsrooms cover tragedies in their communities, other newsrooms almost always send them food, care packages and notes. Today, several local newsrooms got those things from their own communities.
Fort Hamilton High School has undergone three evacuations since Monday due to unfounded bomb threats repeatedly being called in. "It's just scary," said the PTA president, who worries what impact the threats might have on students' mental health.
Borough President Eric Adams (
@BKBoroHall
) rejected a proposed 18-story residential building on the site of a drive-through McDonalds in Prospect Heights.
Late last year, Twitter user
@NYCBikeLanes
issued the "Schermerhorn Challenge" — daring cyclists to ride the entirety of the problem-plagued Schermerhorn Street bike lane without ever leaving it. On Jan. 31,
@LincolnRestler
tried, and failed.
Diamond, who headed the Brooklyn Historic Railway Association, was most well known for rediscovering the world's oldest subway tunnel underneath Atlantic Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn.
A sapling magnolia tree in Prospect Park honors the life and memory of Brooklyn baby Francesca Kaczynski, known as "Beans" to her family and thousands of internet supporters, who died from a rare brain cancer in 2020.
The city has reached a $2.25 million settlement with a notorious pair of Crown Heights slumlords who attempted to evict tenants during the pandemic in violation of the state's eviction moratorium.
Congresswoman
@NMalliotakis
secured $2.9 million in federal funding for the NYPD, she announced yesterday. The money will be used to purchase new forensic and protective equipment, and to support the Critical Response K9 unit.
BREAKING: Democratic incumbent Andrew Gounardes has won re-election to Bay Ridge's state Senate seat, defeating Republican incumbent Vito Bruno in a nail-biting race.
One of Brooklyn's only public marinas will close in April — ousting more than 200 dejected boat owners who say they have little time to find a new space for their boats.
The daughter of a Sunset Park man who was fatally struck by an allegedly unlicensed moped rider earlier this month maintains that the misdemeanor charges against the suspect are too lenient and called on the DA's office to include manslaughter.
A Park Slope diner has plastered its windows with messages of support for the hardworking staff at Methodist Hospital, where healthcare workers are working day and night to care for COVID-19 patients.
Domenico “Dom” De Marco, Brooklyn’s beloved pizza patriarch who founded Di Fara Pizza and baked its legendary pies for over 50 years, has passed away, his family said Thursday. He was 85.
Managers of Green-Wood Cemetery are threatening to close the gates of the borough’s biggest boneyard because bad-behaving Brooklynites looking for open space have been wreaking havoc on the grounds, said the cemetery's president.
Two local legislators are suing the NYPD in federal court, alleging that the Department violated their civil rights during last year's protests against police brutality in Brooklyn.
The City Council voted unanimously on Wednesday to approve River Ring, a massive new development on the Williamsburg waterfront, effectively clearing the path for the two towers to move ahead.
Mayor Bill de Blasio confirmed the city's pan to turn a car lane on the Brooklyn Bridge roadway into a two-way protected bike lane, seven months after denying a Brooklyn Paper report on the plan.
At a rally on Tuesday, Nerdeen Kiswani — one of the organizers of the May 18 protest in Bay Ridge — said NYPD officers pulled off the hijabs of multiple Muslim women, broke a community member's motorized wheelchair, and brutally beat at least one person.
Flatbush Avenue, one of Brooklyn's busiest traffic corridors, could be set to adopt a new bus lane along its length if advocates, local pols, and the city's Department of Transportation get their way.
“Brooklynites shouldn’t be forced to suffer from severe noise and air pollution so a few people can get to the Hamptons or JFK faster or a few tourists can see Brooklyn Bridge Park from above,”
@LincolnRestler
told
@amNewYork
"It's basically a big variety show": Sea monsters and fin folk can tune into a virtual livestream of Coney Island's beloved
@MermaidParade
this Saturday.
In Bay Ridge, retired firefighter Frank Thurlow was volunteering for Lee Zeldin and Nicole Malliotakis. He said he feels the city "needs a change."
"All I'm saying is, a few years ago I felt a lot safer in the city and I had more money in my pocket. That's all I'm saying."
Five food delivery workers have died on the job in Brooklyn over the past year, with the most recent just over two weeks ago, according to a scathing new report by the delivery workers collective Los Deliveristas Unidos.
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"I could really spend the next five weeks going lie for lie, blow for blow. Dive into the gutter right alongside her campaign,"
@MaxRose4NY
said. "Or we can take a different road here, we can do something different."
Former Congressmember Max Rose is suggesting the unthinkable: for two politicians, at each other's throats for the chance to represent a coveted swing seat in Congress, to refrain from lying for five entire weeks.
Devastating crashes are all too common in Brooklyn because so many of our streets are still designed for speed, not safety, write
@JustinBrannan
and
@Sen_Gounardes
.
Hundreds protested Congresswoman
@NMalliotakis
' objection to two states' election results outside her office on Saturday.
"Nicole Malliotakis took an oath. Within 72 hours, she sold us out," said Bay Ridge Councilman
@JustinBrannan
.
A new poll from
@TransAlt
shows that the majority of New Yorkers — including motorists — are in favor of improvements to streets space including protected bike lanes, bus lanes and wider sidewalks.
Park Slope's popular "Open Street" will go ahead this summer thanks to a group of Fifth Avenue merchants who banded together to secure funding for the car-free program along the bustling shopping and dining district.
Amusement parks across the state can reopen in April, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced today.
"We can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel," said the owner of
@WonderWheelPark
. "And what a long, dark tunnel it's been."
"I think initially the KKK, when it was formed, they were well intentioned people who felt they were hurt, discriminate against," said
@AMWilliamColton
, defending his posts comparing Black Lives Matter to the Klan.
To celebrate Martin Luther King Day, State Leadership in Albany has decided to let the eviction moratorium lapse and put nearly a quarter of a million households at risk of displacement.
Starbucks employees at the store in Bath Beach's Ceasar's Bay Shopping Center have formally voted to unionize, becoming the first store in Brooklyn and the third in New York City to join the fast-growing nationwide labor movement.
Southern Brooklyn Democrats are rejoicing Tuesday as two Republican Council candidates — Brian Fox and Mark Szuszkiewicz — conceded within an hour of each other just two days into absentee ballot counting.
Broadway Junction, one of Brooklyn's busiest subway stations and most crucial transfer points, is finally set to become accessible for people with disabilities.
Six Bay Ridge businesses have been burglarized in the last few weeks, and Rep. Nicole Malliotakis on Monday said she believes the crimes are tied to bail reform.
Councilmember
@crystalrhudson
made good on her campaign policy "A Black Agenda For New York City" on Thursday, introducing a package of bills central to the policy's goals in the City Council.
Prospect Heights locals pushed back against a developer's planned residential building housing 316 apartments — roughly 95 of which would be below-market-rate — because, they claim, the neighborhood is "swimming in density."
A recent string of robberies and break-ins in Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights has spurred fears of a "crime wave" in the area — but the data shows no such wave is occurring, 68th Precinct commanding officer Andrew Tolson said at the Oct. 19 meeting.
Rallygoers gathered to protest charges leveled against 52-year-old Ting Duo Lei, who they say was "defending his family" from 24-year-old Hassan Saab, who showed up at Lei's Bensonhurst home to armed with a baseball bat to confront his 13-year-old son.
"Without her, we do not know how we will manage to survive between rent and other living expenses," said Wei Zhao, whose wife Xiaohong Chen was killed by a turning pickup truck in Dyker Heights last week.
Agitators advertised a protest in Bay Ridge on Sunday with looting and violence, local Councilman
@JustinBrannan
said. Instead, locals congregated for a peaceful protest — and a 12-year-old girl led the march.
"People can't afford their rent and people certainly can't afford an additional $2,000, $3,000 to a broker they never hired," said Council Member Chi Ossé, who represents parts of Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights, at a rally ahead of the June 12 hearing.
Beverley Hall's vibrant front yard, filled with blooming marigolds, hydrangeas, and ferns, showcases the lush greenery that helped Lincoln Place secure the title of Brooklyn's Greenest Block.
A whole lot of Brooklyn streets are named after historical figures with few accomplishments and ethics that are questionable at best — but here are four named after people who deserved to be remembered.
In an exclusive interview with Brooklyn Paper, Ellie’s handler revealed her top-secret pre-game pump-up playlist, and let’s just say it’s as wild as you’d expect.
@nyliberty
@BigEllieLiberty
Brighton Beach, which is home to one of the largest Ukrainian populations outside of Eastern Europe, began reeling from the devastating news of their native land under siege.
Two officers found to have brutally attacked protesters without just cause in Brooklyn last weekend have been suspended without pay, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea announced Friday night.
Where Linden Boulevard meets Eldert Lane will now be known as "Akai Gurley Way," after an unveiling ceremony held seven years to the day after his killing in the stairwell of NYCHA's Pink Houses.
"Here we are 10 years later, and we still have a long way to go," said Councilman
@bradlander
. "We're seeing the need for bike superhighways, for substantially more bike and pedestrian infrastructure."
"It is counter intuitive to be expanding natural gas when we shouldn't be burning fossil fuels," said state Sen.
@JuliaCarmel__
. "Instead of investing in more natural gas infrastructure like this, we can be investing in alternatives."
A southern Brooklyn artist hand-painted a handful of outdoor dining spaces on Bay Ridge's Fifth Avenue, transforming the colorless barriers into vibrant displays throughout the commercial thoroughfare.
Camera footage caught a man waiting outside Green Olives Deli and Grill in Park Slope, then grabbing Boka, the shop's cat, and taking off.
"I have bad feelings about it, but hopefully I get my cat back unharmed," Boka's owner said.
Park Slope assemblyman
@Bobby4Brooklyn
introduced a bill today that would allow New Yorkers to continue drinking alcohol in public for the duration of the coronavirus outbreak.
A Clinton Hill man registered his beer as an emotional support animal last month, hoping the certification will allow him to access public transit in possession of his favorite beverage.
BREAKING: Industry City leaders pulled the rezoning application for the sprawling Sunset Park complex on Tuesday after a host of Brooklyn lawmakers announced their opposition to the plan.
Public housing advocates hope legislation like the Housing Emergency Response Act can breathe life into the country's ailing public housing systems after decades of disinvestment.