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‘More is more’: This year’s Dyker Heights Christmas Lights dazzle, putting visitors in the holiday spirit

By Gabriele Holtermann & Meaghan McGoldrick O’Neil

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Prospect Heights

Lenape culture to takes center stage at inaugural Prospect Park Eenda-Lunaapeewahkiing fair

By Susan De Vries

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Business

Shop the season: Brooklyn’s best holiday markets for festive finds

By Susan De Vries

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Magic in the air: Your guide to holiday lightings and celebrations in Brooklyn

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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Magnolia Bakery debuts pop-up Banana Pudding vending machine in Williamsburg to celebrate launch of frozen-to-thaw pudding in grocery stores

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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‘Lightscape’ returns to Brooklyn Botanic Garden with new installations and holiday treats

By Adam Daly

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No tricks here: More than 30 Brooklyn streets to close for trick-or-treating, parades this Halloween

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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Frightful fun: A guide to Halloween festivities in Brooklyn

By Kirstyn Brendlen

Aerial view of a vast forest with autumn foliage in orange, yellow, and red, under a blue sky with scattered clouds.

New York Family

The Best Spots to Check out Hudson Valley’s Fall Foliage

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QNS

Order free at-home COVID-19 test kits as USPS resumes nationwide distribution

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AMNY

Hot Sauce Expo expected to spice up Brooklyn this weekend

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Film

Ghosts, vampires, and mail-delivery mysteries: Brooklyn Horror Film Festival returns with a frightful lineup Oct. 17-24

By Kirstyn Brendlen

The Downtown Brooklyn Arts Festival returns this month with a fresh line-up

Downtown

Downtown Brooklyn Arts Festival returns this month with DJs, dance and soulful sounds

By Adam Daly

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New York Family

Big Bounce America is Coming to Queens This Fall!

An Original Sin cider station at CiderFeast.

AMNY

Tenth annual CiderFeast returning to Brooklyn this fall

Rock out to The Smashing Pumpkins

AMNY

Rock out to The Smashing Pumpkins’ new album at this listening party in Brooklyn

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New York Family

NYC Summer Streets Are Back and Bigger Than Ever This Year

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QNS

Look out Pickleball! NYC’s first official Disc Golf course comes to Brooklyn-Queens park

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Seventh annual Jamaica Bay Festival to bring Brooklynites closer to nature on July 13

By Natalie Dahan

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Feeling patriotic: Six ways to celebrate the Fourth of July in Brooklyn

By Kirstyn Brendlen

More from Around New York

The stage at PrideFest 2025.

NYC Pride announces 2026 theme: ‘For All of Us’

Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Browne attends a signing ceremony with his China’s Premier Li at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing

Antigua hires Ghanaian nurses, denies Cuban phase-out

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New York Family

Inside the Museum of Ice Cream NYC Renovation: New Play Spaces and Hidden Rooms

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‘The department is burning’: Fired DOJ attorneys say federal justice in crisis under Trump