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Party foul: Residents enraged by promoter’s second attempt at staging bash inside PLG building
Prospect-Lefferts Gardens: Tenants of a Prospect-Lefferts Gardens building are furious with their landlord for inviting a party promoter to throw an all-night bash inside the space on Saturday — a year after the city shut down the host’s planned rager at the then in-construction complex due to lack of permits. Comments (7)
Boerum Hill: Civic gurus on Wednesday unanimously rejected a real-estate firm’s plan for a five-building megadevelopment on the edge of Boerum Hill. Comments (12)
Nightlife: Call it a space jam! Comment
Bedford-Stuyvesant: Funnyman Tracy Morgan returned to his native Bedford-Stuyvesant this week to snip the opening-day ribbon at a pair of revamped basketball courts in the neighborhood’s Marcy Playground. Comment
Coney Island then and now
Event: Immigrants — we get the jobs done! Comments (3)
Planks for nothing: Landmarking Coney Boardwalk pointless without saving wood, locals argue
Coney Island: Call it a wood-be disaster. Comments (1)
Editor’s Picks: This week we’ve got pot plays, mad science, the 95th birthday celebration for Bettie Page, and much more! Brooklyn is the place to be! Comment
Tomorrow: Local health-insurance firm and Bed-Stuy hospital stage medical fair for teens
Health: Leaders at a Bedford-Stuyvesant hospital and a local health-insurance provider are inviting teenagers to an information-packed fair on April 21 where they can receive medical tips and advice geared towards their young-adult years. Comment
Going to pot
Reefer badness: DA’s progressive pot policy falls short, activists claim
Leaves of Grass: The district attorney’s office continues to prosecute the majority of low-level weed-possession cases despite its pledge to stop trying petty pot disputes in 2014, and most defendants are people of color, according to a public defender who called the so-called progressive policy a failure. Comments (7)
Leaves of Grass: This musical debuting tomorrow will be — hold on. Are you a cop? Comments (2)
March sadness: Tenants honor W’burg building employee who died amid his favorite NCAA tourney
Williamsburg: A sports-obsessed worker at a Williamsburg apartment complex who took part in fantasy leagues and pools with others there claimed his first victory when he won the group’s college-basketball contest earlier this month — roughly two weeks after he died. Comment
Theater: One night in Park Slope makes a rough show better! Comment
Page 1: If you’ve ever walked into the home of a loyal reader, chances are you’ve admired his or her stacks of past issues of the Paper, its news-packed pages yellowed just so. That’s because the Paper’s paper shows the passage of time as real newsprint should. It doesn’t feign the appearance of youth like other, glossier products. The Paper visibily wears its age like a badge of honor that, at a glace, reminds people of where it has been and what it has seen over its decades on the job. Keep hustlin’, Brooklyn! Comment
