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Mamdani promised fast and free buses. His new $882 million plan is all fast, no free.
Mayor Mamdani and Gov. Hochul unveiled an $882 million plan to speed up NYC buses 20 percent, but the free...
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Peter Pan Donuts went dark for a day. Donna Siafakas, its heart for 33 years, is gone.
Donna Siafakas ran Greenpoint's Peter Pan Donut and Pastry Shop for 33 years. She died June 30 at 69, and...
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A Swiss watch brand and Gary Vee are turning Williamsburg’s old Urban Outfitters into a members-only club
A Swiss watch brand, Breitling, and Gary Vaynerchuk's VCR Group are converting Urban Outfitters on North 6th Street in Williamsburg...
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The city shut Saint Vitus down during a hardcore show. This fall it reopens in Bushwick.
Saint Vitus, the Brooklyn metal bar the city shut down mid-show in 2024, reopens this fall at 428 Troutman Street...
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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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The city is throwing a ribbon-cutting for a Bushwick Inlet Park section that has been open since April
NYC Parks and Council Member Restler cut a ribbon on Bushwick Inlet Park's $9.8 million Motiva section, a restored tidal...
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An ACS award for Bushwick that doesn’t start until 2027 and re-ups the group already doing the job
ACS touted recommended awards for 11 Community Partnerships. The Bushwick one re-ups the group already doing the job and doesn't...
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New York City has a pile of free help for small businesses. Most owners find out it exists too late
New York City offers free legal help, navigators and courses for small businesses. Most owners never learn they exist until...
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NYC launched Gun Violence Awareness Month in Bed-Stuy, run by a brand-new community-safety office of about five people with no deal with the NYPD yet
NYC launched Gun Violence Awareness Month at Restoration Plaza, run by a brand-new, roughly five-person community-safety office with no NYPD...
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Ridgewood’s queer scene isn’t a row of gay bars. It’s a black-metal record shop, a pierogi place, and a horror book fair
QNS's Ridgewood Pride guide maps a queer scene that runs through a black-metal record shop, a pierogi spot, and a...
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The city calls it 100 percent affordable housing. Sixteen Bed-Stuy neighbors say it skipped the review every other site got
The city pitches the Atlantic Avenue plan as 100 percent affordable. Sixteen Bed-Stuy neighbors say it skipped the review every...
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The city is wiring up 100 intersections to make streets safer, out of 6,000 miles, for about $300,000
NYC DOT is scaling up privacy-protective street sensors to 100 intersections, out of 6,000 miles of streets, for about $300,000....
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Groups of people keep climbing into New York’s sewers at 2 a.m. Nobody can say why
Cameras keep catching small groups descending into New York's sewers around 2 a.m. No one can say who they are...
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Mamdani picked a street-redesign legend for the MTA board to deliver free buses. He controls 4 of its 17 votes
Mamdani picked a street-redesign legend for the MTA board. He controls 4 of its 17 votes.
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New York says its school phone ban is working. The evidence is a survey of 585 people who enforce it
The state says its school phone ban is working. The evidence is a survey of the people who enforce it.
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A Brooklyn campaign wants cars out of McCarren Park for good. The rally was the easy part
A Brooklyn campaign wants cars out of McCarren Park for good. The rally was the easy part.
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Con Edison wants credit for a record North Brooklyn grid upgrade. You’re paying for it through the rate hike on your bill
Con Edison wants credit for a record $3.9 billion grid upgrade in North Brooklyn. You are paying for it through...
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A Williamsburg restaurant is closing, and the new spot moving in is the owners admitting their experiment didn’t work
Rose Marie on Lorimer Street closes June 13. The spot replacing it is the same owners quietly admitting their Southern-inspired...
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Williamsburg’s Leonard Library reopened with fanfare last year. A disabled patron still can’t use the bathroom
Williamsburg's Leonard Library reopened with fanfare in 2025. A disabled patron still can't use the bathroom, the part a wheelchair...
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North Brooklyn’s coolest concert venue is a public park that gets zero public money, so it throws raves to survive
Under the K Bridge Park turned the Kosciuszko Bridge base into a top concert venue. It is a public park...
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New York spent years banning gerrymandering in its own constitution. Now Democrats want to erase those rules to fight back
New York spent years banning gerrymandering in its constitution. Now Democrats want to erase those rules.
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The Brooklyn Mirage can reopen as Pacha, as long as it never acts like the Brooklyn Mirage again
The State Liquor Authority gave the old Brooklyn Mirage address a new license as Pacha, stapled to conditions that read...
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A $1 million check for lights at Cooper Park Houses, and the repair fight the lights don’t touch
Rep. Nydia Velázquez brought a $1 million check for security lighting to Cooper Park Houses. Residents say the deeper repair...
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The NYPD whistleblower who sued over arrest quotas now runs the city’s eviction and seizure force
The NYPD whistleblower who sued over arrest quotas now runs the city's eviction and seizure force.
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A Bed-Stuy bookstore keeps flooding, and the owner’s fundraiser is also a war chest to make her landlord pay
Gladys Books & Wine keeps flooding. Owner Tiffany Dockery's fundraiser is also a war chest to make her Malcolm X...
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New York’s farmers markets turn 50, and the real story is the EBT machine, not the nostalgia
GrowNYC's Greenmarket network is 50. Behind the heirloom-tomato nostalgia, the real story is money: SNAP, EBT, and who can afford...
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A feminist art show in Ridgewood is the proof the neighborhood’s galleries are outgrowing Bushwick’s
A feminist group show on Cypress Avenue is concrete proof Ridgewood's art scene, long treated as Bushwick's overflow, has become...
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Mamdani’s first city budget opened with a property-tax hike and a raid on reserves. Albany bailed it out
Mayor Mamdani's first city budget opened with a property-tax hike and a reserve raid. It balances only because Albany stepped...
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Two charter commissions are fighting over your November ballot, and one of them is technically dead
Two commissions are fighting over your November ballot, and one of them is technically dead.
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The city is pouring the exact Greenpoint bike lane a film-studio dynasty allegedly bribed City Hall to kill
The city broke ground on a Greenpoint street redesign prosecutors say a powerful film-studio family paid to stall. Now it...
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New York’s new tax on billionaires’ empty apartments barely dents Ken Griffin. It could put a lien on your co-op
The tax aimed at billionaires barely dents Ken Griffin. It could put a lien on your co-op.
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The Israel Day Parade fight was supposed to be about Mamdani skipping it. A far-right Israeli minister showed up uninvited and changed the subject
The fight was supposed to be about Mamdani skipping the parade. An uninvited minister changed the subject.
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New York cut the fifth firefighter off its engines in 2011 to save money. Fire deaths nearly doubled, and the Council wants it back
New York cut the fifth firefighter from most engines in 2011. With fire deaths nearly doubled, the Council wants $92...
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Mamdani’s first housing move was not a 112-page plan. It was a fight with a landlord, and he lost it in court
Mayor Mamdani's first housing move wasn't his big plan. He moved against a 5,000-unit landlord within hours of taking office,...
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Greenpoint businesses pleaded with the MTA to save their summer weekends. The MTA’s chairman told them no
Fifty-five north Brooklyn businesses asked the MTA to spare their summer weekends. The chairman said no.
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A 14-year-old died subway surfing on the Williamsburg Bridge. The MTA says the real problem is a video that will not come down
2026's first subway-surfing death, and the MTA says the real problem is a video that won't come down.
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Reynoso made Puerto Rico the wedge in his run for Congress. He is not Puerto Rican, and that is the point
Brooklyn BP Antonio Reynoso rolled out a six-page Puerto Rico platform in his run for Congress. He is Dominican, not...
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ICE dragged a handcuffed man out of a Bushwick ER. His assemblyman, who chairs the Correction Committee, went quiet
ICE pulled a handcuffed man from the ER at Wyckoff Heights in Bushwick. The lawmaker who represents the hospital and...
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The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act over a Louisiana map. It just changed the rules of New York’s own redistricting fight
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’s law to shrink class sizes is being met by shrinking the law
New York's class-size law required 6,000 new teachers. The city is meeting it with exemptions, a delay, and a budget...
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New York told every school how to teach reading and math, then claimed a win the experts say it can’t prove
New York mandated how every school teaches reading and math, then claimed a test-score win experts say it can't yet...
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A 600-foot tower is coming to Greenpoint’s waterfront. The local councilman is using his veto to make it pay first
Three towers, the tallest 600 feet, are coming to Greenpoint's waterfront. Council Member Restler is using his veto to wring...
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The housing bill Eric Adams killed on his last day is back, veto-proof, and Bushwick’s Sandy Nurse is leading it
The Community Opportunity to Purchase Act, vetoed by Eric Adams on his last day, returned with a veto-proof City Council...
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3,500 workers shut down the nation’s busiest railroad for three days. They walked away with raises and a $3,000 check
3,500 workers shut down the nation's busiest railroad. They walked away with raises and a $3,000 check.
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New York added 2,000 free preschool seats and called it universal. Last year 1 in 5 free seats sat empty
New York added 2,000 free preschool seats and called it universal. Last year 1 in 5 free seats sat empty.
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Bernie Sanders endorses full NYC-DSA slate, including a Bushwick candidate
Sen. Bernie Sanders endorsed the NYC-DSA slate, including Bushwick Assembly candidate Christian Celeste Tate, ahead of the June 2026 primary.
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Mamdani’s plan to build 200,000 affordable homes has a catch: half of them are not for the lowest-income New Yorkers
Mamdani's plan to build 200,000 affordable homes has a catch: half are not for the lowest incomes.
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The World Cup final is coming to the New York area. The city’s own Comptroller says New York will lose money on it
The World Cup final is coming to the New York area. The city's own Comptroller says New York loses money...
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The city let its own Bed-Stuy building rot into a $60 million repair hole. Now the decay is the case for tearing it down
The city wants to replace its decayed Bed-Stuy Multi-Service Center with housing. It skips how its own neglect created the...
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Harlem renamed a subway station for Malcolm X. Brooklyn’s bill for the Utica Avenue stop passed the Assembly 144 to 0, then stalled
Harlem renamed a subway stop for Malcolm X. Brooklyn's bill to rename the Utica Avenue station passed the Assembly 144...