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Public Meeting to be Held on April 16 April 5, 2024 NEW YORK (April 5, 2024) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed a plan to protect people…

The grieving father of a 16-year-old girl fatally struck on Brooklyn subway tunnel catwalk is fighting through his grief to learn more about what happened to his daughter. In an exclusive interview, Nelson Cross Sr. remembered daughter…

Brooklyn’s troubled federal jail has been serving maggot-infested beans to detainees, according to defense lawyers. The apparent barf-inducing food conditions at the Metropolitan Detention Center were detailed in a letter sent on behalf…

A very happy welcome back to the Brooklyn Paramount, in the heart of New York’s most populous borough’s fast-evolving downtown. After a remarkable history as a giant movie house for talkies, then a magnet for the likes of Miles Davis,…

An 82-year-old woman was hospitalized after a raging fire broke out in her Brooklyn home and began spreading to neighboring buildings, FDNY and police said Saturday. Firefighters worked feverishly to put out the massive blaze, which…

Brooklyn, NY, March 15, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ship Essential, the high touch local fulfillment company, today announces the acquisition of Carry, the innovative same-day local delivery startup. By adding Carry’s mobile sorting…

A Brooklyn preacher known for his flashy lifestyle and who boasted of his friendship with New York City’s mayor was found guilty in federal court Monday of wire fraud, attempted extortion and lying to the FBI. Lamor…

A man who was shot and killed in a Brooklyn basement early Sunday went through a harrowing ordeal just a few months ago when he and his wife had to rescue their six small children from a fire allegedly started by their landlord to get…

New York, New York, March 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NugHub NY, New York City's premier legal weed delivery service, is thrilled to announce the achievement of a significant milestone - the completion of our 1,000th successful…

Troy Gill, the 13-year-old Brooklyn boy shot to death on his way home from a Nets game, left behind a critical clue to his unsolved murder — the word “Drench” tattooed on his body, a high-ranking police source said Wednesday. Detectives…

More than 70% of residents who live near a central Brooklyn hospital oppose New York State’s plans to close the medical center and move some of its services across the street, according to a poll published Monday by opponents of the…

Air Company’s pilot facility in BrooklynAir Company In a grey building squeezed in an industrial corner of Brooklyn, New York, Stafford Sheehan shows me a jar full of black metallic pellets. “This is the special…

New York, United States, Feb. 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NEW YORK, xx, 2024 / -- Brooklyn Law School announced today the Allen Grubman Chair in Media and Entertainment Law, which was generously committed by legendary media and…

Kevin Durant, now in his first full season with the Phoenix Suns, explicitly stated that he did not want a tribute video in his return to Brooklyn. He did not think he deserved one. And in the days leading into Wednesday’s Nets-Suns…

After New York City ejected vendors who had clogged the base of the Brooklyn Bridge, a Manhattan lawmaker is pushing for a compromise to let some of the vendors back on. But the lawmaker, Councilwoman Gale Brewer, faced some early…

Residents of a Brooklyn street remained stunned and baffled in the aftermath of an apparent murder-suicide police believe was committed by a lifelong resident loved by all. On Wednesday, Jason Jackson and his girlfriend Olga Kirshenbaum,…

A gun-toting felon blasted away at a group of rivals in Brooklyn — and then ran down one of his targets with a car after shooting the man in the leg, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Luis Rosario, 30, didn’t let his time behind bars…

(New York Jewish Week) – On Tuesday, a group of Jewish men gathered to pray under a leaky white tent in the drizzling rain outside the Chabad-Lubavitch movement’s world headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, draping…

New York, Jan. 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) has selected 39-year-old Ira Walker from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, as its 2024 MDA National Ambassador. Walker joins 16-year-old National Ambassador …

Federal prosecutors have appealed a Brooklyn judge’s decision to toss the convictions of a former 21st Century Fox executive and a sports marketing company from a corruption trial last year involving FIFA, the worldwide soccer governing…

A Brooklyn man was charged with the violent rape of a 49-year-old woman as he and a knife-wielding accomplice robbed the massage parlor where she worked, prosecutors said Friday. Mohammed Izzeddin, 22, was arraigned at Kings County…

A lithium-ion battery exploded in Brooklyn earlier this month and within moments three generations of the West family — Albertha West, 81, her son Michael West, 58, and her grandson Jamiyl West, 33 — were surrounded by flames. The…

November 10, 2023 Elizabeth Henson, author of Agrarian Revolt in the Sierra of Chihuahua, 1959–1965, writes about the Sojourner Truth Organization in The Brooklyn Rail. In her essay titled “When We Win, We Lose: The Story of a…

A 43-year-old man died two weeks after being stabbed in front of his Brooklyn home by a neighbor, police said Monday. Mamuka Kuloshvili was knifed multiple times in front of his home on Brighton 8th St. near Ocean View Ave. in Brighton…

Most produce travels 1500 miles from farm to table. Gotham Greens grows, harvests and sells it crops all in one building.

Joining forces with The David Lynch Foundation's "Quiet Time" program at The Brooklyn Urban Garden Charter School, Project Uplift visited its first elementary Uplift lets you experience your innate superpower of relaxation by lifting the…

Gotham Greens is a startup in Gowanus focused on creating sustainable rooftop farming solutions by adding working greenhouses to office buildings throughout the 5 boroughs. Anthony talks to the Co-Founders and Chief Agricultural Officer…

Inhabitat's editor and ecocrusader Jill Fehrenbacher gives a lighting makeover at the Brooklyn home of Inhabitots' managing editor Julie Seguss, helping her save hundreds of dollars on her energy bill. Visit for more information. Filmed…