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• Lost Lake Festival cancelled

  15-06-2018 22:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  The fest will be releasing an official statement later on Friday (6/15) on the event's cancellation, and poor ticket sales are likely the culprit.
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• Brooklyn Brewery prepares to move to Wythe Avenue, will bid farewell to original taproom on Aug. 29

  18-08-2026 22:12 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Brooklyn Brewery is preparing to leave its longtime home for greener pastures just a few blocks away.After 30 years on North 11th Street, the brewery is set to relocate to a larger, airier space on Wythe Avenue this fall, and will bid farewell to its original location with a rollicking goodbye party on Aug. 29. “We've spent thirty years building something special on North 11th Street, and now we have the chance to take everything we've learned — about beer, hospitality, and comm
  
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• NYers say Citi Bike has gotten too expensive, can a new advocate-led campaign make it cheaper?

  18-08-2026 21:30 via amny.com
  
  As Citi Bike has ballooned in popularity, it has also become dramatically more expensive, with the price of a 45-minute electric bike ride for members nearly tripling over the past five years.The transporation advocacy group Transportation Alternatives wants to change that.The group last week launched a campaign to cap the price of a Citi Bike member's 45-minute ride at just $3, equivilent to the cost of a subway or bus fare. The price of such a Citi Bike ride has shot up over the past five year
  
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• Atlantic Antic returns with music, food and fun on Sept. 27

  18-08-2026 20:54 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Brooklyn’s self-proclaimed largest and oldest street festival will return for its 51st year of music, food and fun next month. The Atlantic Antic will take over a 1.5 mile stretch of Atlantic Avenue on Sept. 27, with hundreds of vendors and thousands of people expected to fill the streets.A celebration of the neighborhood and its residents and cultures, the festival will offer a wide variety of activities and a chance to meet up with friends old and new. [caption id="attachment_2
  
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• Sand, sculptures and summer fun: Coney Island’s 34th annual competition crowns its winners

  18-08-2026 20:40 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Forget the hot dogs — Coney Island’s got sand on the menu.The infamous beach became a canvas on Saturday as sand sculptors of all ages gathered for the annual Coney Island Sand Sculpting Competition. The free community tradition, now in its 34th year,  drew competitors and curious beachgoers to the shoreline at West 12th Street on Aug. 15, where every mound of sand was claimed and transformed into a work of art.By the end of the afternoon, four winners had emerged across the com
  
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• Beyond hot flashes: Maimonides experts tackle the stigma around menopause

  18-08-2026 16:48 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Menopause is no longer something women are expected to simply suffer through in silence. As more people speak openly about the physical and emotional changes that come with midlife, Brooklyn Paper spoke with Sarah Zuercher, director of OB/GYN Clinical Programs and a Menopause Society-certified provider at Maimonides’ Menopause Center, and Dr. Emilyn Brodsky, a pelvic floor physical therapist at Maimonides, about what patients should know about perimenopause, menopause and life after menopa
  
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• In Bushwick, a gallery that comes alive in the dark

  18-08-2026 15:42 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  When the lights go out in Bushwick’s Aliume Art Gallery, the artwork is only just beginning.Paintings glow beneath ultraviolet light, colors appear to shift and kinetic sculptures spin into hypnotic geometric patterns. Then, when the lights are shut off completely, the work changes again, revealing an otherworldly landscape created from phosphorescent materials.A different way of seeingFor Alex Aliume, the Ukrainian-born artist behind the gallery, the transformation is the point. Located a
  
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• Woman stabbed to death in Brooklyn park, suspect at large

  18-08-2026 15:28 via amny.com
  
  Police are on the hunt for a killer after a woman was brutally stabbed to death inside a Brooklyn park early Tuesday morning.According to police sources, cops from the 77th Precinct were called to Lincoln Terrace Park at around 12:41 a.m. after a 911 caller reported an assault in progress. When cops arrived, they found a 30-year-old woman with stab wounds in her chest, back and head. EMS rushed the victim to Brookdale Hospital, where her wounds were too severe, and she was pronounced dead.
  
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• Historic Boerum Hill church headed for demolition as developer buys site for $28.25M

  18-08-2026 15:00 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  The days are numbered for an impressive Romanesque Revival church that has commanded the corner of Schermerhorn Street and Third Avenue Avenue in Boerum Hill since the late 1800s. Brooklyn developer Tankhouse is in contract to buy the site for $28.25 million and plans to tear down the fire-damaged structure, court documents show.Last week, the court approved the sale of Next Step Community Church (formerly First Baptist Church) at 360 Schermerhorn Street. Tankhouse founders Sam Al
  
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• From Greenpoint merchants to Chinatown lights: Where NYC’s $8.4M small-business grants are going

  17-08-2026 22:50 via amny.com
  
  Mayor Zohran Mamdani is allocating a large chunk of an $8.4 million small-business grant package toward strengthening merchant groups and business improvement districts,  and, in some neighborhoods, laying the groundwork for new merchant organizations along New York City’s commercial corridors.The grants announced Monday by Mamdani and the Department of Small Business Services will also pay for street cleaning, lighting, public art, wayfinding, marketing and other neighborhood improve
  
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• Visitation Academy to be sold to group of real estate investors, developers

  17-08-2026 22:26 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Two years after Visitation Academy closed its doors, the school and attached monastery are set to be sold to developers for more than $42 million in a deal locals say was kept secret until the last minute.The Attorney General’s office last week approved the sale of the 7.5-acre campus from the nonprofit Sisters of the Visitation of Brooklyn to a group of real estate developers and investors, likely setting the stage for a large-scale redevelopment. The buyer, recently-founded 1137 91
  
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• Hermès nears opening in faux-old Williamsburg building

  17-08-2026 22:15 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Hermès is set to open any day now on the corner of North 6th and Berry Street in Williamsburg. Signage is up in the windows, and the storied French luxury brand recently advertised for a general manager ahead of its long-promised fall opening of the permanent Brooklyn flagship at 111 North 6th Street.While there is no actual “Hermès” shop sign, at least not yet, even from a distance larger-than-life images of its signature orange boxes tied with brown and white cotton r
  
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• ‘By community, for community’: Brooklyn hubs carve out spaces of their own

  17-08-2026 18:48 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Brooklyn’s network of small, community-run hubs has never been more important than now, their founders and directors say.These hyper-local hubs — stores, community centers and food banks — go beyond their traditional roles by serving a larger purpose. They often offer free resources, programming and workshops. They serve as a gathering space for the block. And they are united by a common goal: community sovereignty.By neighbors, for neighbors, they say.Now, amid nationwide poli
  
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• Brooklyn firefighters battle string of weekend blazes, including Fort Greene battery fire

  17-08-2026 16:13 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Firefighters across Brooklyn were kept busy over the weekend, battling a series of fires in apartments, homes and commercial buildings, including a blaze involving lithium-ion batteries at a Fort Greene storage facility.The most significant fire came early Saturday, when firefighters in Fort Greene responded to a report of a fire at a commercial building at 1 Carlton Ave. just after 4 a.m.Responding units were met by a burning lithium-ion battery outside a storage facility. After cutting through
  
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• At Brooklyn Navy Yard, Mamdani’s jobs agenda collides with his anti-ICE politics

  16-08-2026 15:00 via amny.com
  
  It’s business as usual at the Brooklyn Navy Yard — at least for now.Anti-ICE activists are vowing to continue campaigning to push Crye Precision out, but the tactical-apparel maker remains in place under Lindsay Greene, the Yard president and CEO,  whom Mayor Zohran Mamdani reappointed last month.The company sold cold-weather gear to U.S. Border Patrol this year, putting a fresh spotlight on the tenant as activists press Mamdani’s administration to act. Yet officials at th
  
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• Brooklyn lawmakers join privacy advocates in push to ‘Ban the Scan’ at MSG

  14-08-2026 22:35 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  A coalition of privacy advocates, local lawmakers and artists gathered outside Moynihan Train Hall, across from Madison Square Garden, on Aug. 14 to renew calls to end the use of biometric surveillance in places of public accommodation such as MSG. The group also urged the City Council to pass Council Member Shahana Hanif’s (D-Brooklyn) Ban the Scan, Int. 213, which would prohibit businesses open to the public from collecting or using customers’ biometric information for surveillance
  
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• Brooklyn man sentenced to 26 years to life for murder and dismemberment of girlfriend

  14-08-2026 21:00 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  A Brooklyn man was sentenced Wednesday to 26 years to life in prison for murdering and dismembering his girlfriend, then remaining in her East New York apartment for weeks while using her money and concealing her death in 2022, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office.Justin Williams, 27, was sentenced by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun after being convicted in June of second-degree murder, concealment of a human corpse, fourth-degree grand larceny, fourth-degree crim
  
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• The ‘SCOOP’ on poop: City Council approves bills aimed at getting New Yorkers to clean up after their dogs

  14-08-2026 19:05 via amny.com
  
  The City Council on Thursday took action to battle the scourge of dog owners not doing their "doo-ty" of cleaning up poop left on city streets and in parks by their canine pals with its passage of the " Safe and Clean Outdoor Ownership Practices (SCOOP) Act."The four-bill package is designed to encourage dog owners to pick up their animals' waste rather than let them do their business and leave the feces for unwitting pedestrians to step in.The measures would require the city to make dog waste b
  
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• Calling all bookworms! Brooklyn Book Festival returns with 9 days of literacy events across NYC

  14-08-2026 18:19 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  The acclaimed Brooklyn Book Festival will return next month with nine days of events featuring hundreds of authors, booksellers and literary organizations.Now in its 21st year,  the festival will run from Sept. 20 to Sept. 27, with programming spanning all five boroughs. The celebration will include Virtual Festival Day, Children’s Day, the flagship Festival Day and Literary Marketplace in Downtown Brooklyn, as well as more than 70 Bookend events hosted by cultural partners throughout
  
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• Things to do this weekend with the kids in Brooklyn

  14-08-2026 16:47 via newyorkfamily.com
  
  [caption id="attachment_426571" align="alignnone" width="568"] Courtesy of Jewish Children's Museum[/caption]Looking for something fun to do with the kids in Brooklyn this weekend? Between a Beatles sing-along, a Star Wars night at the ballpark, and free kayaking on the Gowanus, Brooklyn's got a lot going on this weekend. Whether you're looking for something free, something new, or just a way to tire the kids out before Monday, we've rounded up the best of it.And if you’re still looki
  
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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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