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Brooklyn Paper

After fire, Prospect Park will take ‘many seasons’ to recover and prepare for future droughts

Pop art creator Mark Kostabi

Renaissance man of Manhattan: Mark Kostabi expands his world from pop art to music

Posted on November 13, 2024

Donald Trump at rally in NYC

Politics

Tens of thousands of working-class New Yorkers shifted toward Trump in 2024. Here’s why.

Posted on November 13, 2024

Snow falls in Stuyvesant Town.

New York

Stay warm: How to apply for HEAP in New York and lower your energy costs this winter

Posted on November 13, 2024

Staten Island Pride Center executive director Carol Bullock and Pride Center board member Alex Carr (second from left) engage with Staten Island St. Patrick's Day Parade organizer Larry Cummings in 2022.

Gay City News

Staten Island St. Patrick’s Day Parade lifts ban on LGBTQ groups

DOT officials, elected officials and transportation advocates cut the ribbon for the Queens Boulevard Redesign. Photo: Shane O'Brien

News

A ‘Boulevard of Life’ transformation: DOT announces completion of Queens Boulevard Redesign

Posted on November 12, 2024

Midtown murder mystery suspect in handcuffs in back of police car

Midtown murder mystery: Alleged drug dealer from New Jersey booked for strangling woman dead, cops say

Posted on November 12, 2024

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QNS

Mayor Adams joins families and officials in Queens to commemorate 23rd anniversary of AA Flight 587 tragedy

An apartment building on Shore Road in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

Housing

US Supreme Court declines to hear challenges to NY rent stabilization law

Posted on November 12, 2024

Mayor Adams

Politics

Mayor Adams raises concerns over real estate broker fee bill set to get City Council vote Wednesday

Posted on November 12, 2024

Chick-fil-A to open a new location in Clinton Hill on Nov. 14.

Brooklyn Paper

Chick-fil-A to open this week in Clinton Hill, marking second Brooklyn location

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QNS

Watch: Hero barber confronts gunmen in chaotic Corona barbershop shooting

Brooklyn Paper

Fatal stabbing at Brooklyn playground marks second homicide in four months

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Brooklyn Paper

Former U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm paralyzed after horse riding accident, thousands raised for recovery

people planting trees on the street for the NYC Parks Department

NYC Parks launches plan to plant 18,000 trees per year by 2035

Posted on November 12, 2024

Police at crime scene

Harlem

Two teens charged for Harlem gang shooting that left 7-year-old hospitalized

Posted on November 12, 2024

Kerry Lewis, 46, faces charges of two first degree murder charges and 3rd degree in criminal possesion of a weapon in the double murder of two seniors.

Brooklyn

‘I snapped,’ boyfriend of slain Brooklyn girlfriend cries after arrest on double first-degree murder charges

Posted on November 12, 2024

ghost cars

QNS

AM Rajkumar introduces ‘Ghostbuster Act’ to eradicate untraceable ghost cars from NYC streets

Member of Sanitation Department

New mandatory garbage rule to begin in NYC Tuesday: Here’s what you need to know

Posted on November 12, 2024

Fifth Avenue is gearing up for the holidays.

Holidays

It’s curtains: World-famous NYC holiday show at Saks Fifth Avenue canceled for 2024

Posted on November 11, 2024

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QNS

Queens sees significant rightward shift as Trump support surges in 2024 election

anti-immigrant

QNS

‘Trump will deport you’: Hate Crimes Task Force now investigating anti-immigrant incident in Bayside

Moondog

Brooklyn Paper

Beats and eats: New Med-Mex listening bar, Moondog, opens in East Williamsburg

outside of a two-story house in Cypress Hills in Brooklyn

Dad and daughter found dead with their necks slashed in Brooklyn home; suspect arrested: cops

Posted on November 11, 2024

NY: 505 State Street

Brooklyn Paper

A new era: Inside 505 State Street, NYC’s first fully electric skyscraper in Downtown Brooklyn

NYC wrestler Nasty Nic Nolan

How New York native and independent wrestler Nasty Nic Nolan is looking to grapple his way to the top

Posted on November 11, 2024

Police at a shooting scene in Queens.

Bronx

Bronx man stabbed dead inside home; person of interest questioned, cops say

Posted on November 10, 2024

Bronx community members and the NYPD joined together to mourn the loss of two murdered Bronx twins over the weekend on the four-year anniversary of their passing.

Bronx

Four years later: NYPD, Bronx community seek answers almost half a decade after newborn twins were found dead

Posted on November 10, 2024

Giants running back

New York Giants

Giants flop in Germany: Big Blue coughs it up late, loses to Panthers in OT in Munich

Posted on November 10, 2024

Several passengers on board a Queens bus were injured when the driver suffered a medical episode and lost control of the vehicle, which crashed into a number of parked vehicles, authorities said.

Queens

Queens bus crashes into parked cars, injures riders after driver suffers medical episode

Posted on November 10, 2024

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Queens

Firefighter arrested in Queens for allegedly attacking ex-wife in front of child: sources

Posted on November 10, 2024

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Bronx

17-year-old fatally shot in the Bronx in latest act of teen gun violence

Posted on November 10, 2024

NYPD escortes Rockefeller Center Christmas tree

Midtown Manhattan

How the NYPD helped deliver the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree and usher in the holidays in NYC

Posted on November 9, 2024

Shooting scene in Queens

Queens

Queens armed robbers shoot man inside store, steal his watch: cops

Posted on November 9, 2024

Police at a shooting scene

Queens shooting at lounge leaves man seriously wounded: cops

Posted on November 9, 2024

Trees on fire in Prospect Park wildfire

Brooklyn

Prospect Park wildfire leaves forested area scorched amid ongoing NYC dry spell

Posted on November 9, 2024

Immigration Equality executive director Aaron Morris.

Gay City News

‘People can see the storm coming’: LGBTQ immigrant community braces for second Trump term

Michael Melendez left the priesthood in 2008

Brooklyn Paper

Queens teacher fired after Brooklyn Diocese finds historical child sex abuse allegations ‘credible’

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QNS

Brooklyn man charged in viral Belt Parkway crash scheme captured on victim’s dashcam: DA

Brooklyn Chamber of Coimmerce

Brooklyn Paper

Hundreds attend Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce’s Best of Brooklyn Real Estate Showcase

The man who allegedly caused mayhem on the Upper West Side Thursday when he shot his former boss and made his getaway in the subway system was apprehended by police one day later, authorities said.

Upper West Side

Disgruntled employee cuffed for shooting ex-boss on Upper West Side

Posted on November 8, 2024

A migrant family outside the Row Hotel in January, 2024.

Politics

NYC to end migrant debit card program as shelter numbers decline: Mayor Adams

Posted on November 8, 2024

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Brooklyn Paper

Check out the vote: Breaking down the results of the presidential election in Brooklyn

Time to celebrate! Brooklyn Children's Museum relaunches monthly program, 'Ti Atis'.

Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn Children’s Museum relaunches ‘Ti Atis’ cultural series showcasing Haitian heritage

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QNS

Resorts World Casino marks ‘lucky 13th’ anniversary, celebrates community impact and future plans in Queens

Police officer with crime scene tape

News

Man found fatally stabbed in Lower East Side

Posted on November 8, 2024

red hook nypd impound lot fire

Brooklyn Paper

Cars burn at NYPD impound lot in Brooklyn, 2 years after fire destroyed evidence warehouse at same site

man in a black shirt standing in front of Towne Deli & Pizzeria sign on Staten Island

Business

Towne Deli & Pizzeria: Slicing up good eats in NYC for more than 50 years

Posted on November 8, 2024

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People standing in a circle and taking an oath of office to join PSA 8 Tenant Council

New members of PSA 8 tenant council sworn in at Edenwald Houses

A medley of ice cream, served in vintage silver medal dishes, at Eddie's Sweet Shop in Forest Hills.

Celebrate National Ice Cream Day at Eddie’s Sweet Shop in Forest Hills

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Heap’s Ice Cream in Park Slope makes magic with neighborhood collabs

Congressmember Mike Lawler of New York speaks in Washington on July 17 during a press conference to support the LGBTQ hotline.

‘Unfathomable’: Trump administration ends LGBTQ youth suicide hotline