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apartment buildings beside bushwick avenue church

Bushwick

Apartment buildings rise on Bushwick church parking lot and former townhouse site

By Anna Bradley-Smith

beaches closed hurricane erin

News

Brooklyn beaches close as Hurricane Erin generates life-threatening rip currents and large waves

By Kirstyn Brendlen

Ingrid Lewis-Martin.

AMNY

Ex-Adams aide Ingrid Lewis-Martin to be hit with additional corruption charges on Thursday, lawyer says

Latest News

NYPD recruits stand with right arms raised taking an oath

AMNY

Blue blood infusion: NYPD welcomes largest recruit class in 9 years amid its ongoing staffing crisis

Things To Do With the Kids This Weekend in Brooklyn!

New York Family

12 Things to Do with the Kids This Weekend in Brooklyn!

Social Security 90th Anniversary

Bedford-Stuyvesant

Slices and stories: AARP marks 90 years of Social Security at Bed-Stuy pizza pop-up

By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil & Paul Frangipane

AMNY

NYC Mayor’s Race: New poll shows Mamdani comfortably ahead, but without majority, in 5-way race

crown heights mass shooting vigil

Anti-violence advocates vow to keep fighting after mass shooting ‘shattered’ Crown Heights

By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell

Lucas Gomez, a former staff attorney at Brooklyn Defender Services, was fired after a social media post advocating violence against Israelis

AMNY

Brooklyn Defender Services fires attorney over ‘hateful’ post advocating violence against Israelis

brooklyn public library

Books

Brooklyn Public Library names six finalists for 2025 Book Prize

By Olivia Seaman

NYPD officer staring at funeral for fallen cop

AMNY

Bleeding blue: Why is the NYPD losing an average of 300 cops per month?

people outside erudito cannabis dispensary

Columbia St Waterfront

Erudito, the Columbia Waterfront District’s first legal dispensary, focuses on culture and wellness

By Gabriele Holtermann

Emily Gallagher

PoliticsNY

Inside Government with PoliticsNY: A Q&A with Assembly Member Emily Gallagher

Election day man at polls

AMNY

2025 Elections: What you need to know before voting

Mayor Eric Adams New York City Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner Jessica Tisch making a public-safety- and quality-of-life-related announcement.

AMNY

Op-Ed | Quality of life and ending the culture of ‘anything goes’

back-to-school giveaway table at win

Park Slope

Win and Airbnb launch back-to-school giveaway for children in shelters

By Gabriele Holtermann

man working at sand sculpting contest

The dunes are alive at the 33rd annual Coney Island Sand Sculpting competition

By Kirstyn Brendlen & Erica Price

woman in tears at scene of mass shooting in Brooklyn

AMNY

Brooklyn mass shooting: Two men killed in rampage identified as gunmen who began the mayhem

Bay Ridge

‘A disservice to history’: Pols push back against proposed closure of Harbor Defense Museum at Fort Hamilton

By Jada Camille

mural-reveal-CAW

Downtown

‘A mural for everyone’: Young artists beautify Kings County Family Court

By Olivia Seaman

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Elsie De Wolfe.

The lasting legacy of Elsie de Wolfe, the lesbian mother of interior design

Tarrus Riley

Tarrus Riley shares ‘U+Me = Good Life’

Things To Do With the Kids This Weekend in Brooklyn!

New York Family

12 Things to Do with the Kids This Weekend in Brooklyn!

Nunzio Quinto, a construction worker hospitalized with Legionnaires’ disease, speaks alongside Rev. Al Sharpton during a press conference at the National Action Network headquarters in Harlem, Wednesday.

Harlem Legionnaires outbreak: Workers sickened with disease file negligence lawsuits against Harlem Hospital contractors