Gowanus: High-school graduates enrolled in a local do-good group’s technical-education program geared to land them construction jobs cannot begin their classes until President Trump decides to reopen the government and end its longest shutdown in American history. Comments (4)

Mean Streets: A bicycle vault coming to the streets outside Atlantic Terminal Mall this spring will provide a new, hip way for cycling commuters to stash their pedal-powered rides, according to its creator. Comments (2)

Sheepshead Bay: Police arrested a Brighton Beach man and charged him with murder for brutally killing a guy with a hammer inside an Emmons Avenue restaurant in Sheepshead Bay on Tuesday. Comments (4)

Cleaning Our Waterways: The Feds’ slow-going cleanse of the toxic Gowanus Canal is now stuck in the muck yet again thanks to the longest government shutdown in American history. Comments (5)

Leaves of Grass: Call him your high-ness! Comments (1)

Music: They’ll make your Balkan dance dreams come true! Comment

Page 1: Have you read the one about 11-year-old drag queen Desmond is Amazing, whose family is beseiged by city social workers investigating complaints made following the boy’s chaperoned December performance at a Williamsburg bar? Or how about the one about the city giving the developer it tapped in 2013 to build Willoughby Square Park — and the futuristic parking garage beneath it — until the end of the month to close a long-awaited deal on the project, before it starts again from scratch? Maybe the one about the latest concerns over the placement of a controversial statue inside the bucolic Green-Wood Cemetery? The Paper has ‘em all, folks — and originally reported each at that. So keep reading, and keep hustlin’, Brooklyn! Read more…

Parenting: The family of an 11-year-old Brooklyn boy known internationally as one of the city’s most talked about drag queens continues to receive death threats, as well as investigatory visits from city social workers, weeks after writers for conservative and pro-life websites ignited a firestorm over his recent performance at a Williamsburg bar. Comments (15)

Marine Park: It was supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Comment

Mean Streets: Scaffolding outside a Downtown building came crashing down on Tuesday, after a man smashed his sport-utility vehicle into the temporary wooden-and-metal structure on Cadman Plaza West, according to a Fire Department spokesman. Comments (4)

Theater: This musical takes the crown for oddest premise! Comments (3)

Crime: Find your neighborhood below or click the link above to get a full list. Read more…

Leaves of Grass: It’s reefer gladness! Comments (5)

Brighton Beach: A man died on Monday after smashing his van into another vacant vehicle parked on a Brighton Beach street, cops said. Comment

Cinema: Call it a non-work perk! Comment

Mean Streets: A man died after a driver hit him while he crossed a Williamsburg street, police said. Comments (7)

Marine Park: A legendary Brooklyn-born comic artist — who got his start doodling strips for the Brooklyn Paper — died on Saturday at 65-years-old, following a two-year battle with brain cancer. Comment

Greenwood Heights: Green-Wood Cemetery leaders may be backing out of their promise to consult the community before installing a statue of a polarizing doctor in the burial ground, according to critics of the sculpture, who said a graveyard bigwig recently shot down their request for a sitdown about the fate of the monument to gynecologist J. Marion Sims. Comments (7)

Coney Island: The city rejected a developer’s controversial request to upzone a block of Surf Avenue in Coney Island, citing this newspaper’s reporting that the builder would consider going against city code by revising the application to only upzone its own properties on the stretch. Comment

Marine Park: It was a Kings send-off. Comment

Event: They sure play a mean pinball! Comment

Our pals at our sister site Brownstoner did a deep dive into the history and creation of the beloved Promenade, and the three-tiered engineering marvel beneath it — whose looming repairs may spell the end of the beloved walkway as locals know it. Click to give it a read! Read more…