About the Author

Ben Verde
A third generation Brooklynite, Ben Verde is living the dream covering Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Crown Heights, and Prospect Lefferts Gardens for his hometown newspaper. Verde’s name first graced the pages of Brooklyn Paper in 2018 as an intern covering the Brooklyn Cyclones.
Community Boards struggle to prepare for in-person meetings, call for remote options
Kirstyn Brendlen, Ben Verde, and Jessica Parks
Police Blotter
- Borough Park: 84th Precinct: Office thief snatches laptops
- Boerum Hill: 84th Precinct: Airpods snatched on street
- Clinton Hill: 88th Precinct: Burglars steal pricey equipment from construction site
- Clinton Hill: 88th Precinct: Restaurant robbery
- Boerum Hill: 84th Precinct: New Year’s Nightmare
- Boerum Hill: 84th Precinct: Loaves and stitches
Things to do in Brooklyn
Tomorrow, 7:30 pm
Tomorrow, 8 pm
Tomorrow, 8 pm
Entertainment
Brooklyn baker Adela Mou on her journey from her home kitchen to ‘The Great American Baking Show’
Fort Greene’s Greenlight Bookstore voted New York’s most popular small business
“axes, herbs, and satchels: open the archives” connects Black maternal mortality crisis with the erased history of Black midwives
Open Stages music festival returns to Park Slope’s stoops and sidewalks on May 10
Reworked Runway turns Brooklyn roller rink into sustainable fashion showcase