Bushwick gets none of the 100 Election Day poll sites where the city’s Civic Engagement Commission posts interpreters
The commission's interpreters cover 13 languages at 68 Brooklyn sites, the nearest at IS 71 on Heyward Street (Yiddish) and...
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The commission's interpreters cover 13 languages at 68 Brooklyn sites, the nearest at IS 71 on Heyward Street (Yiddish) and IS 93 in Ridgewood (Polish). It does not offer Spanish, which the Board of Elections provides at some poll sites in every borough.
The commission's interpreters cover 13 languages at 68 Brooklyn sites, the nearest at IS 71 on Heyward Street (Yiddish) and...
New York City DSA has 10 parties citywide starting at 9 p.m., when polls close. Starr Bar, Xanadu, C'mon Everybody...
Hochul stayed in New York City and rallied with Hakeem Jeffries, Letitia James and Thomas DiNapoli. Blakeman, Saritha Komatireddy and...
Javits Frimpong, 15, was shot near East 171st Street and Crotona Place Thursday morning. His mother, Doris Adu Gyamfi, is...
Nassau County, where Blakeman signed the agreements, accounted for 195 of the 272 immigrants transferred to ICE through them statewide,...
Phil Buehler's mural, color-coded into categories like 'Grandiosity' and 'Conspiracy Thinking,' is unveiled Friday at noon at 12 Grattan St....
Mayor Mamdani and Gov. Hochul unveiled an $882 million plan to speed up NYC buses 20 percent, but the free...
A Swiss watch brand, Breitling, and Gary Vaynerchuk's VCR Group are converting Urban Outfitters on North 6th Street in Williamsburg...
Donna Siafakas ran Greenpoint's Peter Pan Donut and Pastry Shop for 33 years. She died June 30 at 69, and...
Saint Vitus, the Brooklyn metal bar the city shut down mid-show in 2024, reopens this fall at 428 Troutman Street...
The Rent Guidelines Board froze rent on roughly a million stabilized apartments in NYC. If your Bushwick unit isn't one,...
NYC Parks and Council Member Restler cut a ribbon on Bushwick Inlet Park's $9.8 million Motiva section, a restored tidal...
New York City offers free legal help, navigators and courses for small businesses. Most owners never learn they exist until...
ACS touted recommended awards for 11 Community Partnerships. The Bushwick one re-ups the group already doing the job and doesn't...
NYC launched Gun Violence Awareness Month at Restoration Plaza, run by a brand-new, roughly five-person community-safety office with no NYPD...
QNS's Ridgewood Pride guide maps a queer scene that runs through a black-metal record shop, a pierogi spot, and a...
The city pitches the Atlantic Avenue plan as 100 percent affordable. Sixteen Bed-Stuy neighbors say it skipped the review every...
NYC DOT is scaling up privacy-protective street sensors to 100 intersections, out of 6,000 miles of streets, for about $300,000....
Cameras keep catching small groups descending into New York's sewers around 2 a.m. No one can say who they are...
Mamdani picked a street-redesign legend for the MTA board. He controls 4 of its 17 votes.
Under the K Bridge Park turned the Kosciuszko Bridge base into a top concert venue. It is a public park...
New York spent years banning gerrymandering in its constitution. Now Democrats want to erase those rules.
The state says its school phone ban is working. The evidence is a survey of the people who enforce it.
A Brooklyn campaign wants cars out of McCarren Park for good. The rally was the easy part.
Con Edison wants credit for a record $3.9 billion grid upgrade in North Brooklyn. You are paying for it through...
Rose Marie on Lorimer Street closes June 13. The spot replacing it is the same owners quietly admitting their Southern-inspired...
Gladys Books & Wine keeps flooding. Owner Tiffany Dockery's fundraiser is also a war chest to make her Malcolm X...
GrowNYC's Greenmarket network is 50. Behind the heirloom-tomato nostalgia, the real story is money: SNAP, EBT, and who can afford...
The State Liquor Authority gave the old Brooklyn Mirage address a new license as Pacha, stapled to conditions that read...
Rep. Nydia Velázquez brought a $1 million check for security lighting to Cooper Park Houses. Residents say the deeper repair...
The NYPD whistleblower who sued over arrest quotas now runs the city's eviction and seizure force.
A feminist group show on Cypress Avenue is concrete proof Ridgewood's art scene, long treated as Bushwick's overflow, has become...
The city broke ground on a Greenpoint street redesign prosecutors say a powerful film-studio family paid to stall. Now it...
The tax aimed at billionaires barely dents Ken Griffin. It could put a lien on your co-op.
Mayor Mamdani's first city budget opened with a property-tax hike and a reserve raid. It balances only because Albany stepped...
Two commissions are fighting over your November ballot, and one of them is technically dead.
Fifty-five north Brooklyn businesses asked the MTA to spare their summer weekends. The chairman said no.
The fight was supposed to be about Mamdani skipping the parade. An uninvited minister changed the subject.
New York cut the fifth firefighter from most engines in 2011. With fire deaths nearly doubled, the Council wants $92...
Mayor Mamdani's first housing move wasn't his big plan. He moved against a 5,000-unit landlord within hours of taking office,...
2026's first subway-surfing death, and the MTA says the real problem is a video that won't come down.
Brooklyn BP Antonio Reynoso rolled out a six-page Puerto Rico platform in his run for Congress. He is Dominican, not...
ICE pulled a handcuffed man from the ER at Wyckoff Heights in Bushwick. The lawmaker who represents the hospital and...
The Supreme Court gutted a key part of the Voting Rights Act. It just changed New York's redistricting fight.
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New York mandated how every school teaches reading and math, then claimed a test-score win experts say it can't yet...
The Community Opportunity to Purchase Act, vetoed by Eric Adams on his last day, returned with a veto-proof City Council...
Three towers, the tallest 600 feet, are coming to Greenpoint's waterfront. Council Member Restler is using his veto to wring...
3,500 workers shut down the nation's busiest railroad. They walked away with raises and a $3,000 check.
New York added 2,000 free preschool seats and called it universal. Last year 1 in 5 free seats sat empty.