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• Abbotsford Road Is A True Crop To Cup Experience

  05-07-2018 17:47 via bkmag.com
  
  New York City is famously known as the city that never sleeps. Adding that it’s because everyone’s caffeinated AF would erobably rob the saying of its charm. Coffee is synonymous with New York— so is the subway being delayed due to train traffic ahead. Luckily Abbotsford Road coffee is here to help make the former as special of an experience as possible. I experienced this first hand at the opening of the specialty coffee supplier’s Gowanus café and headquarters du
  
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• Changing gears: Bike Plant shifts into worker-owned model as Bed-Stuy shop keeps rolling

  13-08-2026 21:57 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Zachary Flynn walked his purple and white single-speed bike up to Bike Plant hoping for good news. “I was biking up Bedford, and a delivery guy kind of cut in front without looking,” Flynn said. “Thankfully, we're both okay, but now my front wheel is not exactly moving.” After a quick look and brake adjustment from one of the mechanics, Flynn happily hopped back on the bike in less than three minutes.Flynn, who lives in Bed-Stuy near the Crown Heights border, is a re
  
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• E-bike safety push: Lyft would have to report Citi Bike crash info to city under newly proposed council bill

  13-08-2026 21:45 via amny.com
  
  The City Council is making a new push to stem traffic crashes involving e-bikes, e-scooters, and other micromobility devices. A city lawmaker argues that effort must include knowing more about crashes involving the widely popular electric silver Citi Bikes.City Council Transportation Chair Shaun Abreu introduced a bill Thursday designed to get more information on those incidents from the company that runs the city's bike share program, rideshare giant Lyft. While e-bikes account for roughly 45%
  
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• Preschoolers with special needs celebrate graduation as 25 students prepare for kindergarten

  13-08-2026 21:44 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Twenty-five Brooklyn preschoolers with disabilities and complex developmental needs celebrated a milestone Wednesday as they graduated from Helen Keller Services’ Children’s Learning Center and prepared to enter kindergarten this fall.The students, many of whom have spent the past two years receiving specialized support, crossed the stage in caps and gowns during an Aug. 12 ceremony at St. Francis College in Downtown Brooklyn.The Children’s Learning Center serves children ages
  
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• Rabbis say Mamdani listened to them. Now they’re waiting on his plan to fight antisemitism

  13-08-2026 20:00 via amny.com
  
  Mayor Zohran Mamdani is trying to repair a troubled relationship with some Jewish New Yorkers without backing away from the positions on Israel and Palestine that have long been central to his politics — a balancing act that came into sharp focus during a private meeting with 10 rabbis earlier this week.Four participants who took part in the closed-door, no-camera meeting, in speaking with amNewYork, described broad agreement among them that many Jewish New Yorkers do not feel the safety a
  
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• Rabbis say Mamdani listened to them. Now they’re waiting on his plan to fight antisemitism.

  13-08-2026 20:00 via amny.com
  
  Mayor Zohran Mamdani is trying to repair a troubled relationship with some Jewish New Yorkers without backing away from the positions on Israel and Palestine that have long been central to his politics — a balancing act that came into sharp focus during a private meeting with 10 rabbis earlier this week.Four participants who took part in the closed-door, no-camera meeting, in speaking with amNewYork, described broad agreement among them that many Jewish New Yorkers do not feel the safety a
  
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• Spinal injury survivor to begin nearly 3,000-mile walk across America in Brooklyn

  13-08-2026 18:48 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Thousands of people stroll across the Brooklyn Bridge daily, but Fergus Farrell is gearing up to cross the bridge as the first steps in a walk across America — part of a much bigger spiritual and physical journey.Farrell was paralyzed after a 2018 spinal injury left him wheelchair-bound for nearly a year, with little hope of walking again. Eight years later, he is planning to start a roughly 75-day walk from the Brooklyn Bridge to Santa Monica Pier on Aug. 22.The journey, known as Fergus W
  
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• Unidentified man shot to death on Brooklyn street

  13-08-2026 16:20 via amny.com
  
  Brooklyn detectives are on the hunt for the suspect who shot a man dead in a cold-blooded street execution on Wednesday night.Law enforcement sources say that cops from the 81st Precinct rushed to the intersection of Broadway and Lewis Avenue at about 9:15 p.m. on Aug. 12 after a 911 caller reported that a person had been shot.Upon arrival, officers discovered an unidentified man with multiple gunshot wounds throughout his body. EMS rushed him to Kings Country Hospital, where he could not b
  
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• ‘Not just a job’: Planned Parenthood staff rally for better pay, protections as contract negotiations drag on

  12-08-2026 22:26 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Planned Parenthood staffers picketed outside their Downtown Brooklyn clinic on Tuesday, demanding a fair union contract as bargaining drags on. More than 160 union workers with Planned Parenthood of Greater New York have been working without a contract since June, and say negotiations have reached a stalemate as management refuses to agree to wage increases and better working conditions.“They’ve offered us a 1% raise,” said Lily Dalke, a midwife who has worked for Planned
  
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• Mamdani’s first NYC budget gets cheers for bookkeeping, jeers for big budget gaps, from state oversight board

  12-08-2026 21:35 via amny.com
  
  Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s first appearance before the state Financial Control Board brought praise Wednesday for making New York City’s budget more transparent, but also repeated warnings that the city still faces a persistent gap between what it spends and what it earns.State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and City Comptroller Mark Levine credited the Mamdani administration with putting billions of dollars in previously underbudgeted expenses onto the books, while cautioning that the city
  
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• Brooklyn crime thriller ‘Neon Affair’ lands worldwide distribution deal

  12-08-2026 20:41 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  A new independent crime thriller with deep Brooklyn roots is getting ready to reach audiences beyond New York after “Neon Affair” landed a worldwide distribution deal with Los Angeles-based Indie Rights.The feature, written and directed by Sean Hinds and produced by Marcus R. Smith and Hinds, follows Toni Jefferson, a young Brooklyn woman whose relationship with Junior Mayes pulls her into a high-stakes heist. She is ultimately forced to decide how far she is willing to go for the ma
  
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• Rockaway Beach drowning victim named as Williamsburg High School student Sir Audley Sykes

  12-08-2026 19:30 via qns.com
  
  The teenager who died while swimming off Rockaway Beach on Sunday, Aug. 9, has been named as 17-year-old Williamsburg High School student Sir Audley Sykes.Sykes drowned shortly after 7:30 p.m. Sunday near Beach 84th Street after he was caught in a rip tide and swept under the waves. He had been swimming with his best friend at the time, who also got into difficulty but was rescued by lifeguards.His grieving mother Patricia Thompson told several news outlets that Sykes told rescuers to prioritize
  
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• New musical ‘Brooklyn’s Bridge’ tells story of Emily Warren Roebling at the Irondale

  12-08-2026 15:26 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  A new musical about Emily Warren Roebling, “the woman who saved the Brooklyn Bridge,” has arrived in Fort Greene. “Brooklyn’s Bridge,” playing at The Space at Irondale through Aug. 23, chronicles the 11 years Emily spent as the de-facto leader of the project after her husband, chief engineer Washington Roebling, fell ill during construction. “She was 26 years old [when she took over.] By the time the bridge was finished, she was 40 years old. She bec
  
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• Former NYPD Detective indicted after allegedly assaulting handcuffed man inside Brooklyn precinct

  12-08-2026 00:07 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  A former NYPD detective is facing criminal charges after prosecutors say he repeatedly punched a handcuffed man inside a holding cell at a Carroll Gardens police precinct earlier this year. Raymond Ng, 51, who was assigned to the 76th Precinct detective squad, was arraigned Tuesday in Brooklyn Supreme Court on an indictment charging him with second- and third-degree assault, official misconduct, second- and third-degree menacing and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon.Ng was relea
  
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• NYC lawmaker to intro bills aimed at getting illegal e-motos off city streets

  11-08-2026 23:35 via amny.com
  
  A Manhattan lawmaker is set to introduce legislation this week aimed specifically at reining in the kinds of illegal electric motorcycles (e-motos) that a 1eenager was riding when he got into a fatal crash with an SUV driver late last month.City Council Member Shaun Abreu (D-Manhattan), who chairs the body's Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, confirmed to amNewYork that he will introduce three bills on Thursday as part of a larger package that City Council Speaker Julie Menin began
  
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• Historic NYC buses are coming to Brooklyn Bridge Park for free Bus Festival

  11-08-2026 22:47 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Brooklynites will get a chance to step inside some of New York City’s most memorable buses next month when the New York Transit Museum brings its annual Bus Festival to Brooklyn Bridge Park.The museum, together with MTA New York City Transit, will host the 29th annual event on Sept. 19 at Emily Warren Roebling Plaza. The free festival will run from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., rain or shine.The event will showcase buses spanning more than a century of New York transportation history, giving visit
  
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• Coasters for charity: Local nonprofits to race across Luna Park’s 8 roller coasters

  11-08-2026 19:30 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Coney Island is gearing up for a high-speed fundraiser this weekend as local nonprofits take on Luna Park’s eight roller coasters for the annual Charity Coasterthon.The event will take place Aug. 16 in celebration of National Roller Coaster Day. Beginning at 11 a.m., three-person teams representing seven local organizations will have two hours to ride as many of Luna Park’s roller coasters as possible.Participants will race from coaster to coaster, receiving a stamp after each comple
  
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• Central Brooklyn riders weigh-in on sweeping city and state plan to speed up buses at Mamdani town hall

  11-08-2026 19:00 via amny.com
  
  Central Brooklyn bus riders got their first chance to weigh in on proposals for speeding up routes running through their portion of the borough at Brooklyn College last week.A large room on the CUNY Campus was packed with just over 100 people on Aug. 6, all gathered for Mayor Zohran Mamdani's "Central Brooklyn Bus Rider Town Hall" event. The workshop-style session was the first of several the city and state will hold to gather public feedback on their joint plan aimed at making buses faster: "Ne
  
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• Courtside connections: Young athletes, cops unite ahead of tournament honoring fallen NYPD detectives

  11-08-2026 18:06 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Basketball brought young athletes and police officers from across the U.S. and Canada together in Crown Heights on Aug. 6, as players sharpened their skills and built new connections ahead of the fifth annual Det. Jason Rivera & Det. Wilbert Mora Basketball Classic.The tournament honors the legacy of the two detectives who were ambushed and killed while responding to a domestic violence call in Harlem on Jan. 21, 2022. On the eve of this year’s tournament, NYPD Community Affairs’
  
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• Courtside connections: Young athletes, cops unite ahead of Brooklyn tournament honoring fallen NYPD detectives

  11-08-2026 18:06 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Basketball brought young athletes and police officers from across the U.S. and Canada together in Crown Heights on Aug. 6, as players sharpened their skills and built new connections ahead of the fifth annual Det. Jason Rivera & Det. Wilbert Mora Basketball Classic.The tournament honors the legacy of the two detectives who were ambushed and killed while responding to a domestic violence call in Harlem on Jan. 21, 2022. On the eve of this year’s tournament, NYPD Community Affairs’
  
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• NineDot to bring 4.9MW battery energy storage facility to Bushwick

  11-08-2026 16:04 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Battery company NineDot will break ground on a 4.9 megawatt battery energy storage facility in Bushwick later this year. Expected to come online in 2027, the facility — located at 421 Bushwick Ave., across from Bushwick Houses — will store enough electricity to power 5,000 nearby homes when demand is highest, helping to reduce strain on the grid.The site sits in the middle of the route of National Grid’s Metropolitan Infrastructure Reliability Project (aka the North Brookl
  
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• NYC Public Schools survey finds high family satisfaction ‘remains high,’ growing support for the chancellor

  11-08-2026 15:15 via amny.com
  
  NYC Public Schools (NYCPS) reported broadly positive results from its 20th annual School Survey, with more than 870,000 students, families and educators participating — a 2% increase in responses since last year, the agency said on Tuesday.The self-administered survey found "strong support" for Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels among educators and families. Approximately 77% of teachers said they have "strong confidence" in Samuels' leadership, while 72%  said they "deeply trust him."&
  
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• Brooklyn Children’s Museum expands free field trips to 42,000 NYC students thanks to Council funding

  10-08-2026 21:23 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  The Brooklyn Children's Museum will expand access to free educational field trips for an estimated 42,000 students from Title I schools across the city during the 2026-27 school year, thanks to $420,000 in funding from the New York City Council. The funding includes $350,000 from Council Speaker Julie Menin and Council Member Crystal Hudson to support free field trips citywide. Hudson also provided an additional $20,000 for schools in Council District 35, while Council Member Darlene Mealy
  
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• New York Liberty legends, fans celebrate 30 years of WNBA history at Brooklyn Dribble

  10-08-2026 19:27 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  The New York Liberty hosted its 3rd annual “The Brooklyn Dribble,” on Aug. 8, honoring players, fans and defining moments that have shaped the organization since its inaugural season in 1997.Led by by Fogo Azul, a women-led samba reggae drumline marching band and New York Liberty’s legendary players like Teresa Witherspoon, Crystal Robinson, and Carolyn Swords, more than 2,000 fans dribbled basketballs along a mile-long scenic route through Brooklyn Bridge Park, with the East R
  
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• Mamdani says he personally appealed to Trump on Haitian TPS as city ‘forced’ to dismiss workers who lost authorization

  10-08-2026 19:15 via amny.com
  
  Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on Monday that he personally appealed to President Donald Trump to restore protections for Haitian immigrants, as his administration moved to dismiss city workers who lost their legal authorization to work following the end of Temporary Protected Status.Mamdani said he spoke with Trump before City Hall announced Friday that it was “forced by federal law” to review the work authorization of Haitian TPS holders and end the employment of those who could not est
  
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• Man shot to death on Canarsie Pier

  10-08-2026 15:56 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Police are investigating after a man was found shot to death on the Canarsie Pier during the early hours of Sunday morning.According to law enforcement sources, cops from the 69th Precinct received a 911 call reporting that a man had been shot at around 3:14 a.m. on the Belt Parkway and Rockaway Parkway. Upon arrival, officers discovered a 30-year-old man riddled with gunshots throughout his body and head.Paramedics rushed the victim to One Brooklyn Health-Brookdale Hospital
  
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• Mamdani draws line with DSA on police and prisons amid continued ties

  09-08-2026 15:22 via amny.com
  
  Mayor Zohran Mamdani drew a clear line between himself and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) on public safety last week, saying police, prisons and jails have a role in keeping New Yorkers safe while the organization’s national program calls for steps toward fully abolishing the police and prison system.The policy distinction comes as DSA figures hold senior posts in Mamdani’s administration, while the NYC-DSA’s transit working group was among several advocacy groups i
  
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• Crown Heights block once again named ‘Greenest Block in Brooklyn’

  07-08-2026 23:20 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  “You can make a planter out of anything,” longtime gardener Perri Edwards told an admirer of her MoMA-inspired heads sculpted from milk cartons, with leaves of different shades and species sprouting like hair.Edwards’ Lincoln Place stoop and front yard, like those of her neighbors, have become a cross between a whimsical garden, a tribute to New York City, and an educational display on upcycling and community greening.On Aug. 4, Edwards and her neighbors, dubbed P.L.A.N.T. (Pre
  
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• Brooklyn Democrats nominate four judges for state Supreme Court at convention

  07-08-2026 23:00 via amny.com
  
  The Brooklyn Democratic Party Executive Committee voted to nominate four candidates for the New York State Supreme Court at their nominating convention held on Aug. 6.  The nominees will appear on the general election ballot on Nov. 3. In all, 170 judicial delegates selected the four nominees through a vote held at the Marine Park Golf Course before a crowd of roughly 250 attendees, according to the Brooklyn Democratic Party. One of the roles of the Brooklyn Democratic Committee i
  
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• Op-Ed | Before Brooklyn makes another irreversible mistake

  07-08-2026 20:00 via amny.com
  
  There is a lesson Scripture teaches over and over again: wisdom requires discernment before action.Good stewards do not make permanent decisions in moments of fear. They seek counsel. They gather the facts. They ask difficult questions. And only then do they move forward.That lesson has been on my heart as I watch Brooklyn face one of the most consequential health care decisions in generations.As a pastor, I have prayed with mothers waiting outside operating rooms. I have stood beside families r
  
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