A housing lottery closing September 3 offers 16 affordable co-op apartments for first-time buyers at two new Bushwick buildings on...
A two-alarm fire at 590 Grandview Ave. in Ridgewood displaced 14 adults from eight households; Council Member Phil Wong and...
Young New Yorkers, including a Williamsburg resident, are turning apartments and rooftops into gardens for mental health and sustainability since...
Brooklyn Public Library's free Sips & Scholars series hosts seven talks at Brooklyn cafes, gardens, and park houses, including The...
Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn has launched a trauma-informed chaplaincy program to support pregnant and postpartum patients facing pregnancy loss, domestic...
The MTA is setting up pop-up workshops this summer in subway stations along the proposed Interborough Express route to collect...
The 70-foot Giglio tower, adorned with saints and flowers, has been lifted in Williamsburg for the 139th annual Our Lady...
NYC Parks is offering free overnight camping trips across all five boroughs this fall, tents provided. Brooklyn's next session is...
The 90th Precinct will host National Night Out 2026 at Rodney Park in Williamsburg on August 4, featuring crafts, sports,...
Bushwick High School offers Swim Strong Foundation swim classes every Monday through August 31 for ages 6 to adult, covering...
BKROT, Bushwick’s bike-powered composting collective, will sell its hyperlocal 'black gold' compost and merch at the Bushwick Starr’s free summer...
A Greenpoint couple who have run Chasing Tailor for 30 years lost their apartment in a fire; the longtime neighborhood...
Con Edison deliberately shut off power to 9,800 customers in Southwest Queens during a heatwave to prevent wider outages, then...
Brooklyn celebrated Haiti’s World Cup return after 52 years, with fans partying in Bushwick and Crown Heights, even as the...
A Bushwick resident wants to know the story behind soccer teams at Maria Hernandez Park — team names, rivalries, schedules....
Wimbledon installed a temporary grass court at Wollman Rink in Central Park on Sunday, letting 24 NYJTL youth players experience...
Around 500 people gathered in Manhattan for the NY Jewish Mah Jongg Festival, where historians explored how mahjong became an...
Corona Plaza in Queens hosts a free World Cup viewing party on July 15 with live dance performances and NYC...
As New York City marks the 400th anniversary of New Amsterdam, local historians say the Dutch colony still shapes the...
New York State has distributed $189 million in Summer EBT benefits to 1.6 million low-income children, with families able to...
North Brooklyn Parks Alliance holds its Rebuild North Brooklyn fall gala October 1 at Under the K Bridge Park in...
Brooklyn Paper launches a 10-stop self-guided tour tracing the 1776 Battle of Brooklyn, starting at Fort Greene Park’s Prison Ship...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani expands NYC's emergency heat plan as temperatures near 112°F this July 4th weekend, targeting outdoor workers in...
Transportation Alternatives canvassed Bushwick residents near Maria Hernandez Park, collecting 50 responses about safer crossings on Knickerbocker Avenue.
Ridgewood yoga teacher Jackie Garbe offers donation-based classes at Baby Cobra Yoga in Bushwick and free NADA ear acupuncture at...
Forty-one tall ships from more than 20 countries sail into New York Harbor July 3–8 for Sail 4th 250, with...
CitizensNYC partnered with Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs volunteers for community garden service days at Tompkins Square Park and Electric...
Five 24/7 turf soccer fields across New York City's five boroughs are open for World Cup pickup games through July...
The NYC Mayor's Office and MTA launched a 'Catch Them All' challenge for World Cup wrapped subway trains, with riders...
Notify NYC warns of life-threatening rip currents at Brooklyn and Queens beaches July 1, urging swimmers to stay out of...
A Rye Youth Council panel warned that teen sports betting, easier since New York legalized it in 2022, can be...
Macy's 50th July 4 fireworks show launches from Brooklyn Bridge, East River, and Hudson River sites; Bushwick residents can watch...
A growing sinkhole in Riverside Park beside the Upper West Side's 87th Street Dog Run has swallowed fence, a tree,...
Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson hosted a 2026 World Cup watch party at One Fordham Plaza in Fordham Manor, co-organized...
About 150 members of Brooklyn's Sporting Club Gjøa packed their Sunset Park clubhouse on June 26 to watch Norway face...
New York and Massachusetts officials vowed to fight in court and Congress the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling letting Trump end...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani presented Toñita Cay, who turned down millions to keep her Williamsburg Caribbean Social Club open 52 years,...
Queens celebrates America's 250th birthday with tall ship parades, free family concerts, LED bike rides, and Macy's fireworks July 3–4;...
More than a million people marched through Lower Manhattan on June 28 for NYC Pride 2026 under the theme 'For...
NYC's July sky offers Manhattanhenge on July 11, Milky Way views from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, Venus and Jupiter...
NYC opened two free public health vending machines in Port Richmond, Staten Island, dispensing naloxone around the clock with no...
In 1941, the Ridgewood Times published a gag press release predicting 1-year-old Robert John Kurtz would become the 42nd president...
The Department of Homeless Services has taken over Building 3 at the former Greenpoint Hospital site, halting 107 affordable senior...
Aqueduct Racetrack held its final live race on June 28, 2026, closing a 132-year chapter in Queens horse racing and...
The Barasch & McGarry Foundation awards five $25,000 college scholarships to seniors who lost a family member to a 9/11-related...
Facing a shortage of green space, Woodside’s Filipino-American community built Little Manila Park on an idle lot at 70th St...
The South Bushwick Reformed Church, a 173-year-old NYC landmark at 855 Bushwick Avenue, burned Friday in a three-alarm fire, leaving...
Rayhan Ahmed and Shaude Tyson won $25,000 each in the 2026 FLAG Award for Teaching Excellence, with their Brooklyn schools...
For the first time in 30 years, an apartment-building block — Crown Heights Keepers on Eastern Parkway — won Brooklyn...
A three-alarm fire destroyed the steeple and roof of the historic South Bushwick Reformed Church on Juneteenth, just years after...