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ASPCA urges NYC Council to fund pet food, vet care and shelter programs
The ASPCA is asking the NYC Council to fund animal shelter operations, affordable vet care, and a pet food assistance...
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Food and Drink
The Sparrow, a French brasserie from the Citroën team, opens at 185 Broadway
The Sparrow is a new French brasserie at 185 Broadway in South Williamsburg, with a 25-foot mahogany bar, nearly 1,000...
Community
A 1941 gag press release predicted a Ridgewood 1-year-old would be president in 1996
In 1941, the Ridgewood Times published a gag press release predicting 1-year-old Robert John Kurtz would become the 42nd president...
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In 1976, wind tore the Bicentennial flag off the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. This July 4th, the MTA is trying again
The MTA will fly a massive American flag from the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge this Fourth of July weekend to mark the...
Community
107 affordable senior apartments were ready to rise in Greenpoint. DHS turned the building into an assessment center instead
The Department of Homeless Services has taken over Building 3 at the former Greenpoint Hospital site, halting 107 affordable senior...
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NYC is giving away 100,000 free tickets to the July 4 fireworks. The lottery closes Monday, and you can’t bring a chair.
100,000 free tickets to the Macy's July 4 fireworks are up for grabs at Brooklyn Bridge Park and the Seaport,...
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Salazar’s Evergreen Avenue cooling center is closed Friday through Sunday, the exact days the heat index hits 112
Bushwick's Saratoga Library is open as a cooling center through July 5 and Bushwick Pool has extended hours as NYC...
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Aqueduct Racetrack held its last live race on June 28, ending 132 years of Queens horse racing and the only NYC subway stop that runs in just one direction
Aqueduct Racetrack held its final live race on June 28, 2026, closing a 132-year chapter in Queens horse racing and...
Entertainment
Mel Brooks, the Williamsburg kid who turned Nazi jokes into art, just turned 100
Mel Brooks, the Williamsburg-born comedy legend who turned childhood trauma into groundbreaking satire, celebrates his 100th birthday with tributes and...
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834 new apartments are landing on the Greenpoint waterfront: a 37-story tower is topping out over the India Street ferry pier
A 37-story tower is topping out at The Riverie, an 834-unit rental complex on Greenpoint’s waterfront at 18 India Street,...
Arts & Culture
27 artists, five years, one Tribeca room: Tappeto Volante can’t fit its whole Gowanus history so it’s showing you what it could
Brooklyn's Tappeto Volante Gallery celebrates five years with 'In Case You Missed It,' a 27-artist group show opening July 10...
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Grace Meng won her Queens congressional primary by nearly 14 points, with Orthodox precincts in Kew Gardens Hills voting 92% in her favor over challenger Chuck Park
Congresswoman Grace Meng won the June 23 Democratic primary in NY-6 by 14 points, with Orthodox neighborhoods in Kew Gardens...
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New York froze the rent on a million apartments. If yours isn’t stabilized, your landlord can still charge anything.
The Rent Guidelines Board froze rent on roughly a million stabilized apartments in NYC. If your Bushwick unit isn't one,...
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Federal judge delays Luigi Mangione trial to January 2027 as state murder case claims the September slot
SDNY Judge Margaret Garnett delayed Luigi Mangione's federal trial to January 2027, while his state murder trial in Manhattan is...
Arts & Culture
An international photo wire just told the world Bushwick is a street art hub, over one shot of graffiti on old factory walls
Reuters Connect, an international photo wire, has labeled Bushwick a global street art hub based on a single image of...
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They’re the casting directors for New York’s buildings: Ridgewood’s Low Cinema put three veteran location scouts on stage
Ridgewood’s Low Cinema hosted a film series spotlighting veteran location scouts, the unsung heroes who find New York’s cinematic backdrops,...
Arts & Culture
For this Bushwick scenic designer, less on the stage means more: her case that stripping down a gothic opera deepens it
Bushwick-based scenic designer Jiaying Zhang explains how stripping down sets for Heartbeat Opera’s 2026 Vanessa deepens emotional storytelling, reflecting her...
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Greenpoint man sentenced to 18 years for raping a 12-year-old in East Williamsburg
Eric McMichael, 28, of Greenpoint was sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to raping a 12-year-old girl...
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Insurance premiums on rent-stabilized buildings nearly doubled in five years. Mamdani wants $100 million to cut them by 20 percent
NYC's Mamdani administration is launching a $100M insurance program for rent-stabilized buildings, aiming to cut premiums by at least 20...
Arts & Culture
Plastic flowers, eagle feathers, and birthday candles: Marco DaSilva’s mosaic assemblages open at a Gowanus gallery Saturday
Marco DaSilva opens mosaic assemblage solo show 'A Light for a Feather' at Tappeto Volante Projects in Gowanus this Saturday,...
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The MTA said in March it was ‘monitoring’ packed Ridgewood express buses. A council member just FOILed it to prove nothing changed
Council Member Phil Wong filed a FOIL request demanding MTA data on overcrowded QM25 and QM34 express buses serving Ridgewood...
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Queens DA charges Forest Hills City Council candidate with using AI to forge police endorsements, fake news articles, and a video claiming his opponent dropped out
Queens DA Melinda Katz charged Forest Hills City Council candidate Jonathan Rinaldi with using AI to forge endorsements and fake...
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Family of Avrumie Itzkowitz offers $20,000 for information in his Kissena Park murder, six weeks after the killing and with no public arrest
Six weeks after Avrumie Itzkowitz was killed in Kissena Park, his family is offering a $20,000 reward for information as...
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Mayor Mamdani campaigns for Claire Valdez in Bushwick and Ridgewood nightclubs
Mayor Zohran Mamdani hit Bushwick and Ridgewood nightclubs to campaign for DSA congressional candidate Claire Valdez ahead of the June...
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A Williamsburg coffee shop banned Rep. Dan Goldman over Gaza. Now the Trump DOJ is investigating it.
Poetica Coffee in Williamsburg barred Rep. Dan Goldman over his stance on Gaza, prompting a Trump-era DOJ civil rights investigation...
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No TV and no ticket needed: 200 LinkNYC kiosks are streaming today’s World Cup round of 32 free, in Spanish
New York City is streaming the 2026 World Cup for free in Spanish on 200 LinkNYC kiosks across all five...
Music
Make Music New York marks 20 years of free citywide performances with a Bushwick garden set
Make Music New York celebrated its 20th anniversary on June 21 with free performances across all five boroughs, including a...
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She ran an after-school program for Brooklyn kids, then wrote 153 checks from its account on hotels and liquor, prosecutors say
Shalisha Jackson, director of P.S. 146’s after-school program, is accused of stealing $111,000 over six years to fund personal expenses...
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This new shelter would make 11 in Sunset Park. Now 14 residents are suing to stop it.
Fourteen Sunset Park residents are suing the city to block a new 200-bed homeless shelter, arguing the neighborhood already hosts...
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Repeated DMCA notices filed under private aliases in Australia, UK and Switzerland knocked a federal court reporter’s Centra Tech fraud coverage from Google search multiple times in June
Journalist Matthew Russell Lee's Centra Tech fraud coverage was repeatedly delisted from Google via fake DMCA notices filed under false...
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42 Hotel named one of Time Out’s best hotels in Williamsburg
Williamsburg's 42 Hotel, family-owned and opened in 2022 near the neighborhood's waterfront, has been named one of Time Out's Top...
Community
More people have died of 9/11-related illnesses than in the attacks themselves. Five $25,000 scholarships just opened for the children they left behind.
The Barasch & McGarry Foundation awards five $25,000 college scholarships to seniors who lost a family member to a 9/11-related...
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Councilwoman Sandy Nurse doubles down on Reynoso with a 10-reason email, a last-minute push in a hotly contested NY-7 race
On the last day of early voting, two days before the June 23 Democratic primary, City Council Member Sandy Nurse...
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Antonio Reynoso and Claire Valdez agree on nearly everything. The NY-7 race between them got ugly anyway.
Brooklyn's NY-7 Democratic primary on June 23 pits Borough President Reynoso against DSA-backed Valdez in a race fractured by real-estate...
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Antonio Reynoso is running on a wealth tax that shrinks billionaires, abolishing ICE, and an insurance code for endometriosis
Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso's NY-7 platform includes a wealth tax on billionaires, abolishing ICE, and a new endometriosis insurance...
Food and Drink
Red Hook’s last Latin food truck shuts down over $14,000 in permit fees
El Olomega, Red Hook's last Salvadoran pupusa truck, shut down for the 2026 season, citing nearly $14,000 in Parks permit...
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A Williamsburg couple got prank calls, 3 a.m. police visits and an ACS report. Now they are suing their landlord over an alleged harassment campaign
A Williamsburg couple claims their landlord ran a harassment campaign, but details remain scarce as Bushwick Daily seeks to verify...
Arts & Culture
Chez Bushwick has been renting artists affordable studio space since 2002. It marked 24 years with a party on Boerum Street
Chez Bushwick, the affordable artist studio space at 304 Boerum Street in Bushwick, marked 24 years with a celebration on...
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Developer’s plan to build affordable and market-rate housing in separate Greenpoint towers draws ‘heartbroken’ response from Community Board 1
Community Board 1 reacts with outrage to TF Cornerstone's plan to build segregated affordable and market-rate towers in Greenpoint, calling...
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Bushwick’s 173-year-old landmark church burned Friday. A congregation of a few dozen is left to rebuild it.
The South Bushwick Reformed Church, a 173-year-old NYC landmark at 855 Bushwick Avenue, burned Friday in a three-alarm fire, leaving...
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A Jackson Heights co-op just borrowed $22 million, $7.6 million of it to fix the facade. Here’s why your maintenance goes up either way.
Southridge Cooperative in Jackson Heights borrowed $22 million to fund facade repairs and avoid penalties, raising maintenance fees for shareholders—a...
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New York just voted to hit pause on AI data centers, because 1 in 4 New Yorkers already can’t pay their electric bill. Now it’s on Hochul’s desk.
New York Legislature passed a one-year moratorium on large AI data centers to protect residents from rising electric bills, with...
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Twenty-five years after a Queens fire killed their firefighter husbands, three widows turned grief into a sisterhood that raised eight kids
On the 25th anniversary of a fatal Astoria hardware store fire, the widows of three fallen FDNY firefighters honored their...
Arts & Culture
Four Haitian artists turned grief, memory, and Brooklyn’s gardens into a free show in Prospect Lefferts Gardens
Four Haitian artists present a free community-built exhibition in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, exploring grief, memory, and place through collaborative projects...
Community
Woodside is starved for green space, so the neighborhood’s Filipino community built its own park on an empty lot
Facing a shortage of green space, Woodside’s Filipino-American community built Little Manila Park on an idle lot at 70th St...
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A Bed-Stuy standoff ended with a detective shot, a gunman dead, and an elderly couple trapped upstairs the whole time
A hours-long standoff at 190 Kosciuszko Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant left a 15-year NYPD veteran shot, a 48-year-old gunman dead, and...
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State Senator Jessica Ramos said no to Steve Cohen’s casino. Days before her primary, a record $850,000 from a mystery company is bankrolling her opponent.
State Senator Jessica Ramos faces a record $850,000 attack from an untraceable Delaware company days before her primary, after she...
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A gunman in a shark T-shirt shot two people inside an East Williamsburg party venue, then walked out
A gunman wearing a shark T-shirt opened fire inside the Brooklyn Monarch in East Williamsburg, injuring two men before fleeing...
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A man awaiting trial was found unresponsive in a notorious Brooklyn federal jail and later died. Two months later, no one will say how.
Carlos Alberto Guerrero Mercado, a 47-year-old Mexican citizen awaiting trial, died in Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center; two months later, no...
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Grace Meng has held her Queens seat for 13 years. A former diplomat is trying to take it Tuesday.
Rep. Grace Meng, who has held her Queens congressional seat since 2013, faces a progressive challenger on Tuesday’s primary ballot...