An accessible vessel that travels the East Coast is giving free sailing outings to those with disabilities from a Brooklyn Heights dock.
The lone Brooklyn Bridge Park plant is making headlines — and has ketchup brands promising to protect it — after a kayaker noticed it Monday
The traps were so successful they should be rolled out citywide, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams said.
A Downtown Brooklyn company called MeToo is facing backlash for selling rape kits you can administer at home.
A Beyonce dance workshop, a Halloween festival, a back-to-school celebration — take a look at all the events coming to downtown this fall.
Get a sneak peek at the Dumbo exhibit that celebrates the poet's 200th birthday and will raise money to help landmark his Clinton Hill home.
Architects gave the first look inside the five-building campus that will open later this year in the former Jehovah's Witnesses space.
An emergency rally Tuesday will make a last-ditch effort to landmark 227 Duffield St. and save it from becoming a 13-story building.
The Brooklyn Historical Society won a prestigious national honor for its Young Scholars program, which has added 14 books to BHA's library.
Alex Nunez started cutting hair in his LES stairwell when he was 12. He now owns barbershops in the LES, the West Village and Brooklyn.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo revealed six projects that will be funded by his $10 million grant, including library, park and accessibility upgrades.
Brooklyn Bridge Park's 500+ summer lineup includes fishing clinics, dance classes, sunset yoga and more. Here's what you should know.
Downtown Brooklyn landed second on a list of NYC neighborhoods where tenants are most likely to get access to a pool.
An executive from the city's Small Business Services division will take over the position, which Peter Bray left at the end of June.
More than 1,000 people signed a petition this week to save a Duffield Street home that has been granted demolition permits.
Eric Adams supports using the BK jail as one of the four to replace Rikers, but wants its size slashed and more support for the incarcerated
The landmarks commission voted yes to the new Remsen Street building last week, which has been vacant for more than 20 years.
The Fleet Place office building, which would require a rezoning, will face its first public hearing this week.
The new library, planned for Adams Street, will be the Brooklyn Public Library's first new branch since 1983.
Hopeton Kiffin stopped his train and jumped down to save a 13-year-old boy with autism who was on the subway tracks at Hoyt Street.
After losing her Dumbo studio, 75-year-old artist Carol Bruns found herself in a homeless shelter, selling off work from her 50-year career.
A drag queen story hour, the history of LGBTQ nightlife and other parts of Brooklyn's queer history will be on display throughout June.
Adams was in his office working when he noticed skateboarders setting up the "safety hazards" on the borough hall steps, a rep said.
U.S. WWI Centennial Commission Hosts Wreath Laying Ceremony to Honor New York Heroes in Advance of Fleet Week New York
Come build kites, enjoy live music, and get your geek on with the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy this weekend.
Studios and galleries will open their doors this weekend to let the public get a glimpse into the neighborhood art scene.
An exhibit starting this week will show life in New York through photos taken by Brooklyn photographer Builder Levy.
The community raised $2,800 to help the family of Erik Mendoza, who died after falling from a 13-story Brooklyn Heights building last week.
The association's executive director, Peter Bray, will step down in June, the organization announced.
The borough president will host a birthday party that will double as a call to rename the Brooklyn Municipal Building in Ginsburg's honor.
The Brooklyn Historical Society will host an exhibit that is the first to focus on the history of the LGBTQ community in the borough.
The neighborhood was one of three in the city that had the most noise complaints at its hotels, according to a study of the ten loudest.
Six descendants of fugitive slaves and abolitionists met in Plymouth Church to uncover their shared histories in this new Sundance film.
The Spring Lecture Series at St. Francis College started this week and will include talks about media, crime, justice and law.
A new handball court will appear in Cadman Plaza Park this spring, but the concrete wall is actually an art installation.
UJA and Hebrew Free Loan Society offering interest-free loans to federal employees who have been furloughed or are working without pay
Access to bike rooms and residents' eating patterns put these neighborhoods on a list of the 10 healthiest in the city.
Protestors and elected officials will ask DOT to re-think a plan to fix the BQE by shutting down the Promenade for six years.
The neighborhood topped a list of the borough's 10 spots with the least sunlight in the winter.
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