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candidates for district 36

Politics

NYC Primaries | Meet the candidates running in Council District 36

By Kirstyn Brendlen

District 41

Politics

NYC Primaries | Meet the candidates for City Council District 41

By Max Levine Murray

Brooklyn Borough President Candidate Khari Edwards pays tribute in poem, at Memorial Day 2025 Ceremony by the Brooklyn Canarsie Lions, flanked by Assembly Member Jamie Williams, to his immediate right.

Caribbean Life

Khari Edwards vies to be Brooklyn Borough Prez

NY: Middle School Students Call for End to Gun Violence

News

Crown Heights students march to end gun violence during annual rally

By Gabriele Holtermann

district 35 primary candidates

Politics

NYC Primaries | Meet the candidates running for Council District 35

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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Development

City Council greenlights major Atlantic Avenue rezoning

By Anna Bradley-Smith

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Books

Community comes together to replace stolen Nonbinarian Book Bike

By Matt Tracy

Firefighters battled a two alarm fire at 285 Schenectady Avenue.

FDNY battles pair of two-alarm fires in Crown Heights and East New York

By Lloyd Mitchell

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News

Two injured in early morning blaze at Crown Heights NYCHA building

By Lloyd Mitchell

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Man wounded, perp on the run after shooting at Crown Heights nail salon

By Dean Moses & Robb Pozarycki

NY: Mayoral Mental Health Town Hall

Politics

Mayoral candidates outline mental health reform plans at Crown Heights town hall

By Gabriele Holtermann

scene of fatal crown heights crash

News

101-year-old woman dies from injuries after being hit by unlicensed driver in Crown Heights

By Barbara Russo-Lennon & Kirstyn Brendlen

Regina Martinez

News

Daughters of civil rights icons call for action and remembrance at Medgar Evers College

By Regina Martinez

Firefighters work to remove windows from a second floor during a fire at 1585 Carroll St. in Brooklyn on April 4, 2025.

AMNY

FDNY marshals investigating pair of Brooklyn fires

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Sports

Carmelo Anthony surprises youth basketball practice ahead of McDonald’s All American Games in Brooklyn

By Cooper Albers

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Sleeping man slashed on board Crown Heights train: NYPD

By Barbara Russo-Lennon

Politics

‘The Chisholm Effect’: Brooklyn celebrates Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm’s legacy at Children’s Museum

By Lauren Rapp

lidl and apartments in crown heights

Development

Lidl grocery store, apartments rise in Crown Heights

By Anna Bradley-Smith

Buildings

AMNY

FDNY investigating deadly fire that broke out in Brooklyn apartment building

News

Firefighters rescue 11 from burning Crown Heights brownstone, one first responder hit by truck

By Lloyd Mitchell

More from Around New York

The 2025 NYC Pride March lined the streets of Manhattan in commemoration of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising.

NYC Pride March brings the heat on a sizzling Sunday in Manhattan

Dancers entertained the large crowd at the 2024 Folk Festival at the Old Boys High School grounds, at 746 Rutland Rd., Brooklyn.

Guyana Cultural Association NY marks 25th Anniversary with Summer–Fall cultural series

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New York Family

NYC Public Pools Are Now Open for the Summer Season!

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NYPD fumes over gay officers’ group’s ‘disgraceful’ exclusion from Pride March