By Eduardo Cuevas on January 30, 2021
Brooklyn, Democrats, New York City, Politics
Brooklyn, Politics & Policy

A Brooklyn Democratic leader resigned from her position Thursday evening after offensive comments she made about Chinese and Palestinian people surfaced, igniting threats to boycott an upcoming mayoral candidate debate. The Brooklyn politician, Lori Maslow, announced she would leave her position as Assembly District leader in the Kings County Democratic County Committee, which is scheduled […]
By Staff on April 7, 2020
Brooklyn, coronavirus
Brooklyn, Coronavirus, Food & Wine, Multimedia, Video

Volunteers deliver hot meals to homebound seniors during the coronavirus pandemic.
By Yoonji Han on March 31, 2020
Brooklyn, coronavirus, poverty
Brooklyn, Coronavirus

On a normal day, the large and brightly lit cafeteria at St. John’s Bread and Life bustles with people, who sit at round tables and enjoy their freshly cooked meals. At breakfast, there might be scrambled eggs, bacon and pancakes, and at lunchtime, chicken and fries. But these are not normal days. Over the past […]
By Caroline Chen on March 28, 2020
Brooklyn, coronavirus, covid-19, small business
Business, Coronavirus, Multimedia, Public Health, Video

To help fill demand spurred by COVID-19, some distilleries in New York are now producing sanitizers.
By Angie Hernandez Pena on March 13, 2020
Brooklyn, Business, chocolate shop, Featured, New York, Video
Brooklyn, Business, Multimedia, Neighborhoods, Video

Damion Badalamenti, chocolate maker at Kah Kow U.S.A. the first Dominican chocolate factory in New York City, explains what makes Dominican chocolate unique. The Rizek Cacao company is a family-owned business that has been exporting cacao beans from the Dominican Republic for over 100 years. Fifth-generation Nadia Rizek wants to share the potential of Dominican […]
By Yuntong Man on February 29, 2020
Brooklyn, Community Board, gentrification, luxury development, Rezoning
Brooklyn, Housing, Neighborhoods, News

Residents of Windsor Terrace say they have too many problems to welcome a 13-story luxury building at 312 Coney Island Ave to their neighborhood.
By Enxhi Dylgjeri on February 28, 2020
Brooklyn, burglary, crime, NYPD, Park Slope, Safety, theft
Brooklyn, Cops & Courts, News

Police are investigating a series of similar apartment break-ins, and they suspect the same person is behind them all
By Yoonji Han on February 7, 2020
art, Brooklyn, immigration, Sunset Park
Brooklyn, Immigration, NY City Scene

Many building walls all over Brooklyn are covered by 40-foot advertisements or sleek glass floor-to-ceiling windows. But the borough is also a gallery for muralists, cultivating waves of activist artists who seek to represent the communities around them. Sunset Park in particular, with its diverse immigrant population and sizable industrial buildings, is one neighborhood that […]
By Staff on February 6, 2020
Brooklyn, immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Brooklyn, Immigration, News

Community activists gather outside Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn to wait for news on the victim
By Jennifer Doherty on February 12, 2019
Brooklyn, Cold, crime, Drugs, Justice, Local business, New York City, snow
Brooklyn, Cops & Courts, News

That’s a wrap at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn
By Jennifer Doherty on February 10, 2019
author, books, Brooklyn, Donald Trump, immigration, Palestine, poetry
Brooklyn, Lens on New Yorkers, NY City Scene

Author Hala Alyan talks writing and resilience in the Trump era
By Taylor Romine on March 6, 2018
Bill de Blasio, Brooklyn, Vision Zero
Brooklyn, News, Politics & Policy

Concerned parents and community members gathered in front of the Park Slope YMCA on Tuesday to protest the city’s lack of street safety in response to a car collision that killed two children on Monday afternoon. On March 5 at 12:40 p.m., two children and three adults, who were walking across the street, were hit […]
By Allison Lau on May 3, 2017
Arts and Culture, Brooklyn, New York, NY, NYC, Rats, taxidermists, taxidermy, wildlife
Animals of New York, Brooklyn, Lens on New Yorkers, Video

Some people spend their Sundays in church, others like to unwind with a good book, but in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, a small group of artists are rolling up their sleeves, grabbing scalpels and cutting open a mischief of mice to learn the craft of taxidermy. Leading the course is Katie Innamoroto, 27, a woman whose […]
By Elizabeth Van Metre on April 26, 2017
Brooklyn, fishing, housing, NYC, Prospect Park, rent
Brooklyn, Lens on New Yorkers

There’s nothing like kicking back, baiting up and enjoying a little fishing on a nice day. Just ask George Hayes, who has been fishing in Prospect Park since 1963. The Brooklyn native has seen the park at its best and at its worse. He says there was a time that he wouldn’t even enter the […]
By Elizabeth Van Metre on March 3, 2017
ash wedneday, Brooklyn, catholic, New York City, NYC
Brooklyn, Multimedia, NY City Scene, Religion, Video

Just 40 percent of U.S. adults raised Catholic still regularly attend mass — but many took to pews on Ash Wednesday to mark the start of Lent