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• Red Hot Chili Peppers played The Meadows (pics, video, setlist)

  18-09-2017 20:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Red Hot Chili Peppers had some technical difficulties at their Sunday night Meadows-headlining set, but they soldiered through with hit-fillled, high energy performance that included a few covers, as well.
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• House Democratic Leader Jeffries opposes Brooklyn Dem overhaul as Bichotte Hermelyn faces leadership challenge

  21-08-2026 00:52 via amny.com
  
  House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries is opposing Brooklyn Democratic Party Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn’s proposal to significantly expand the party’s executive committee ahead of a fight over who will lead the county organization, his office told amNewYork Thursday.Bichotte Hermelyn rejected growing accusations that the overhaul is akin to a power grab, saying the change is meant to spread decision-making power beyond the 42 district leaders who currently make up the voting m
  
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• Haiti Cultural Exchange welcomes applications for 10th cohort of Lakou NOU artists-in-residence

  20-08-2026 23:40 via caribbeanlife.com
  
  The Brooklyn-based non-profit Haiti Cultural Exchange (HCX), which was established to develop, present, and promote the cultural expressions of the Haitian people, has launched an open call cycle for a new cohort of Lakou NOU artists-in-residence.
  The institution showcases and hosts cultural engagement, art exhibitions, artist residency for Haitian-based artists, community events, and youth arts education, among several other educational programs.Lakou NOU, one of the organization's many initiat
  
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• Mother stabbed to death in Brooklyn park after she denied her attacker sex: police

  20-08-2026 21:30 via amny.com
  
  The mother stabbed to death inside Brooklyn’s Lincoln Terrace Park on Tuesday was killed after she refused to have sex with her assailant, police said.According to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny, 30-year-old Shakeema Davis was holding a late night barbecue in the park on Monday night into Tuesday morning with friends and her 7-year-old son when the attack occurred. The gathering began around 5 p.m. and involved some 15 to 2o people, including her alleged killer who authorities say o
  
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• NYC Buildings Department finalizes new rules aimed at more quickly taking down unsightly scaffolding

  20-08-2026 21:15 via amny.com
  
  The city Department of of Buildings on Thursday finalized new regulations intended to compel property owners to more quickly remove the miles of unsightly scaffolding adorning buildings across the Five Boroughs, while it also proposed new rules expnading the number of designs they can use for the structures.The new rules, which Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration proposed earlier this year, are designed to prevent property owners from leaving scaffolding — also known as sidewalk sheds &m
  
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• Bay Ridge’s Century Marketplace gets a retail jolt with major grocery store, Burlington leases

  20-08-2026 19:18 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  MCB Real Estate and Osiris Ventures announced Wednesday that two retailers have signed leases totaling 60,112 square feet at the $130 million mixed-use Century Marketplace project at 458 86th St., bringing the 120,000-square-foot development to 65% pre-leased.The grocery tenant, which developers have not yet named, will become the first national grocer to serve the immediate Southwest Brooklyn trade area, according to developers. Burlington, the national designer-discount retailer, will also ope
  
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• Camp Win Carnival gives NYC shelter kids a summer to remember

  20-08-2026 19:15 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  For the sixth year, Win, the largest provider of shelter and supportive housing for families experiencing homelessness in New York City and the nation, celebrated the end of its summer camp program for children living in Win shelters with its annual Camp Win Carnival.About 150 of the 500 Camp Win participants from across the five boroughs gathered in the schoolyard of P.S. 124 Silas B. Dutcher on Fourth Avenue in Park Slope on Aug. 18 for a day of arts and crafts, a DJ, face painting, basketball
  
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• Brooklyn mourns Ella J. Weiss, longtime champion of the borough’s arts and culture

  20-08-2026 18:38 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Brooklyn is mourning the loss of Ella J. Weiss ’62, ’65 M.S.Ed., a longtime Brooklyn College alumna and influential figure in the borough’s arts and civic communities.Brooklyn College’s Office of Alumni Engagement announced Weiss’ death on Aug. 6, remembering her as a “beloved alumna, dedicated colleague, former president of the Brooklyn College Alumni Association, and tireless champion of Brooklyn.”Weiss served as president of the Brooklyn Arts Council
  
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• Inside Government with PoliticsNY: A Q&A with New York City Comptroller Mark Levine

  20-08-2026 16:00 via politicsny.com
  
  Inside Government is a Q&A series that gives New Yorkers a glimpse inside the role of the elected officials who represent them. This edition of Inside Government with PoliticsNY features New York City Comptroller Mark Levine. Comptroller Levine serves as New York City’s chief financial officer with a number of vital responsibilities including conducting performance and financial audits of all City agencies, serving as a fiduciary to the City’s five public pension funds and provid
  
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• MTA unveils new elevators at now ADA accessible Kings Highway Brooklyn F train station

  20-08-2026 00:00 via amny.com
  
  F train riders with mobility disabilities finally have a station where they can access the subway system along the sizable stretch between the Church Av and Coney Island-Stillwell Av stops.The MTA on Wednesday celebrated the addition of three new elevators to the Kings Highway F station — making the elevated stop the latest that was brought into compliance with the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act. The station sits in the Gravesend section of Brooklyn, where riders can connect to the B
  
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• NYC reports first West Nile case of the year amid increased mosquito activity

  19-08-2026 23:00 via amny.com
  
  New York City has reported its first case of West Nile virus this year amid increased virus activity in mosquitoes across all five boroughs, health officials said Wednesday.The city Health Department said the infected person lives in Manhattan and had spent time outdoors both in the city and at several locations outside of the five boroughs. The department did not say whether the infection occurred in NYC or elsewhere.The case comes as the Health Department has identified 1,284 mosquito pools te
  
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• MTA risks falling short of its 2040 zero-emission bus fleet goal, state comptroller audit finds

  19-08-2026 21:45 via amny.com
  
  The MTA risks falling short of its 2040 goal to make its bus fleet 100% zero emission, according to a new audit from state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's office released Wednesday.The audit found that the MTA's progress toward replacing its nearly 5,800 mostly-diesel bus fleet with entirely zero emission vehicles has hit a few notable snags. Chief among them, auditors say, were issues around green bus supply and the reliability of the vehicles already in service.Additionally, auditors found those
  
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• Ferry fast: Record breaking NYC Ferry run highlights Brooklyn’s waterfront connections

  19-08-2026 20:51 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Talk about making connections.
  A former Guinness World Records holder and his team raced across all 25 NYC Ferry stops earlier this month, using Brooklyn’s busy waterfront network — from the Brooklyn Army Terminal to North Brooklyn landings — as a key part of a record-breaking trip through New York Harbor.Ayush Maini, along with his friend Val He and his uncle Andy Chen, completed a journey through all 25 NYC Ferry stops on Aug. 4 in 6:53:35 — beating the current Guinness
  
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• Advocates urge action cyclist killed in Cypress Hills hit-and-run

  19-08-2026 20:40 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Advocates urged New Yorkers to support faster construction of street safety projects after two cyclists — one in Brooklyn and one in the Bronx — were killed on Tuesday. Paulina Tec Choc, a 29-year-old Queens resident, was killed in a hit-and-run in Cypress Hills early on the morning of Tuesday, Aug. 18. Police said she was stopped on her e-bike at the intersection of Jamaica Avenue and Cypress Hills Street at 5:48 a.m. when the driver, who was headed west on Jamaica Avenue, stru
  
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• Advocates urge action after cyclist killed in Cypress Hills hit-and-run

  19-08-2026 20:40 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Advocates urged New Yorkers to support faster construction of street safety projects after two cyclists — one in Brooklyn and one in the Bronx — were killed on Tuesday. Paulina Tec Choc, a 29-year-old Queens resident, was killed in a hit-and-run in Cypress Hills early on the morning of Tuesday, Aug. 18. Police said she was stopped on her e-bike at the intersection of Jamaica Avenue and Cypress Hills Street at 5:48 a.m. when the driver, who was headed west on Jamaica Avenue, stru
  
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• Brooklyn gets biggest share of $8.4M small-business grants

  19-08-2026 19:32 via brooklynpaper.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 improvements
  
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• Trees grow in Brooklyn: NYC’s first Urban Forest Plan aims to expand tree canopy

  19-08-2026 17:00 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  As summers grow hotter due to the climate emergency, New York City is taking a crucial step toward addressing the devastating impacts of climate change on people and the ecosystem by designing its first Urban Forest Plan (UFP).The plan aims to expand the tree canopy — the land covered or shaded by trees — as part of the city’s long-term climate resiliency strategy, outlining ways to equitably increase tree canopy coverage to 30% by 2040 by adding an average of 700 acres per yea
  
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• Op-ed: The Battle of Brooklyn was 250 years ago. It still has lessons to teach us today.

  19-08-2026 16:28 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  It’s been said that “the Declaration of Independence was signed in ink at Philadelphia, and signed in blood at Brooklyn.”When most people think of the opening salvo of the American Revolution, they usually imagine the “shot heard ‘round the world” fired in Concord or the fighting at Bunker Hill. But the first — and biggest — major battle after the signing of the Declaration of Independence took place on the land right under our feet.In August 1776,
  
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• 26 years later, Brooklyn coaches keep Conrad McRae’s legacy alive through free basketball summer camp

  19-08-2026 15:00 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Conrad McRae Skills & Development Basketball Camp, held at the Dean Playground basketball courts on Bergen Street in Prospect Heights, is a “home away from home” for young people ages 7 to 15 during the summer months, according to basketball coaches Troy Douglas and Patrick Alphonse.The duo launched the summer camp more than a decade ago in memory of their friend, the late professional basketball player Conrad McRae, a standout who played for Brooklyn Tech in high school and Syra
  
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• Op-Ed | What state test scores get wrong about our students

  19-08-2026 13:30 via amny.com
  
  Every summer, the prior spring’s state test scores are released, and it can seem like this one data point sums up everything about public school children in our city. As a longtime educator and the leader of the nation’s largest school system, I want to be clear: state tests are important, and they are not, and should not be, the only data point that we use to measure student achievement.This is a message our communities need to hear. Last week, school districts across New York
  
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• Mamdani administration skips pied-à-terre tax rollout hearing as Council members fume over unanswered questions

  18-08-2026 23:15 via amny.com
  
  Five days after Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he was confident his officials could juggle a City Council hearing with an ongoing lawsuit over the pied-à-terre tax rollout, his administration declined to show up Tuesday, leaving lawmakers to air questions without anyone from City Hall there to answer them.In written testimony submitted instead, Department of Finance (DOF) Commissioner Richard Lee said the “pending and active litigation precludes me” from appearing in person and rev
  
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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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