The battle between the city and Friends of Mount Prospect over a proposed skate park seems to have come to a standstill.

THE VIRAL BOOKSTORE AND BAR Book Club Bar will soon open a Bushwick location, the store announced on Instagram (@bookclubbar). The space regularly hosts author talks and book clubs for drinkers and ...

BOROUGH PARK – DUELING PROTESTS BETWEEN pro-Israel and pro-Palestine groups over an Israeli real estate event in Borough Park turned ugly on Tuesday night, leading to one arrest. Demonstrators ...

BROOKLYN – A GROUP OF 1,000 Federation of Nurses/UFT nurses at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn on Tuesday filed a notice announcing their intention to strike on March 1, over salary increases and ...

MIDWOOD – POLICE ARE SEARCHING for a crook who stole $29,300 from a Brooklyn woman in November. According to the NYPD, on Nov. 8, an unidentified individual obtained the bank account information ...

BROOKLYN — CHELSEA ALEXANDER, known professionally as indie rapper Chelsea Reject, has passed away, according to Okayplayer. A key figure in the city’s underground hip-hop scene, she ...

EAST NEW YORK — St. PAUL COMMUNITY Baptist Church is planning to develop up to 800 affordable housing units on its parking lots in East New York to help combat displacement, reports Sight Magazine.

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — The Brooklyn Academy of Music has announced that Gina Duncan will step down as president when her term ends in June. BAM’s Board of Directors is forming a transition ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul held a series of meetings with key political figures Tuesday as she contemplates removing Mayor Eric Adams from his office, an unprecedented step that reflects the ...

Edolphus “Ed” Towns Jr. made history as the first African American deputy borough president in 1976, serving through 1982. Towns also served as a U.S. representative for New York’s 10th ...

CITY HALL — FOUR TOP DEPUTY MAYORS to Mayor Eric Adams, including First Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer, have submitted their resignations, and others have communicated their intent to resign ...

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Police have arrested a repeat offender for allegedly assaulting, robbing and attempting to rape a woman in Brooklyn Heights while impersonating an ICE agent. Leon Howell, 43 ...