1+ hour, 44+ min ago  (215+ words) Two people were injured by a dramatic manhole fire outside a Williamsburg NYCHA complex on Wednesday morning. Carbon monoxide levels began to climb at 101 Humboldt St. at Borinquen Plaza Houses at around 3:30 a.m., per the FDNY, apparently due to a manhole…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (455+ words) An affordable housing lottery has launched at 11 Gerry Street, a fully affordable ten-story building in Rabsky's giant Broadway Triangle development. Units start at $812 a month. The mega-development, which includes nine buildings and spans two Williamsburg blocks, was the subject of…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (277+ words) When Barry Cooper launched The B.R.O. Experience Foundation in 2020, he set out to create something he felt was missing for young Black and Brown boys in Brooklyn: a dedicated space for healing, emotional growth and brotherhood. Cooper said he launched The…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (219+ words) Police are searching for the suspect responsible for shooting one man dead and wounding another inside the lobby of an East New York apartment building early Tuesday morning. Officers from the75th Precinct were called to 503 Euclid Ave. in just after midnight…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (789+ words) Love was "In the Air Tonight" on Valentine's Day " just not the candlelit, chocolate-box kind. More than 100 people packed Greenpoint's Berry Park on Feb. 14 for the 2026 edition of Phil Collins Day,a February tradition that blends irony, fandom and fundraising....

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (884+ words) Five graduating seniors at Uncommon Schools in Brooklyn are the recipients of the 2025 QuestBridge National College Match, which connects high-achieving high school seniors from low-income backgrounds with full four-year scholarships to the nation's top colleges." These students were selected from…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (501+ words) Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Sunday the establishment of the Coney Island Business Improvement District (BID), aiming to bolster small businesses with a $1 million investment. Mamdani said at Sunday's press conference announcing the BID that "for far too long, the…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago  (408+ words) Lawyers for New York City's sole Republican member of Congress asked the U.S. Supreme court to intervene in a state court order that would redraw her district and be likely to disadvantage her reelection campaign." U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, who represents Staten…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago  (448+ words) A long-empty state-owned property in Clinton Hill is finally set to be turned into a mixed-use affordable housing development. The state has selected a coalition of three nonprofit organizations " the Fifth Avenue Committee, the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation and One Brooklyn…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago  (261+ words) A daycare teacher has been charged for allegedly sexually abusing several young students at the Bushwick child care center where he worked. Devante Brown, 30, was arrested Tuesday by the NYPD's Brooklyn Child Abuse Squad, police said." According to the Brooklyn…...