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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND Security head Kristi Noem on Wednesday visited the Coney ...
North Brooklyn’s greatest ‘glizzy gobblers’ will be competing in the Mallard Drake’s first annual Hot Dog Competition on Friday, May 9.
NEW YORK — GEORGE GRESHAM, the long-time head of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, was defeated by a “resounding margin” by challenger Yvonne Armstrong and the Members First Unity ...
In preparing my May article, an interesting piece of trivia came to light. Not one member of the rosters of the Brooklyn Bridegrooms, The Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers, or the 1955 Brooklyn Dodger ...
CITYWIDE — SUE DONOGHUE, who has served as Mayor Eric Adams’ Parks Commissioner since February 2022, will resign by May 2025’s end, according to sources close to THE CITY. She oversaw ...
BROOKLYN — NEW BIPARTISAN LEGISLATION THAT REP. NICOLE MALLIOTAKIS (R-11) has introduced aims to ban all non-essential helicopter flights within 20 miles of the Statue of Liberty. This ...
PROSPECT PARK SOUTH — A FIRE BROKE OUT in a Prospect Park South apartment at 1409 Albemarle Rd., prompting over 60 firefighters and 12 FDNY units to respond Saturday before noon, according to ...
CITYWIDE — THE DIOCESE OF BROOKLYN IS UNITING IN PRAYER with the College of Cardinals in a Mass organized to coincide with the start of the Papal Conclave on Wednesday, May 7. Bishop Robert ...
NEW YORK — Jury selection resumed for a second day in the sex trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs as a federal judge and lawyers worked Tuesday to find a dozen New Yorkers who believe ...
WINDSOR TERRACE — A FORMER CONVENT has been transformed into a residential complex, Manhattan-based Greenbrook Partners announced, according to the investor analysis website Morningstar.
PROSPECT HEIGHTS — LEADERS IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF BROOKLYN are denouncing the state legislature’s Medical Aid in Dying Act (A136/S138), which the Assembly passed last week 81-67.
People sit behind Angels Unawares, the bronze sculpture by Canadian sculptor Timothy Schmalz, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. Photo: Gregorio Borgia/AP Cardinal Ruben ...