THE VIRAL BOOKSTORE AND BAR Book Club Bar will soon open a Bushwick location, the store announced on Instagram (@bookclubbar). The space regularly hosts author talks and book clubs for drinkers and ...

BOROUGH PARK – DUELING PROTESTS BETWEEN pro-Israel and pro-Palestine groups over an Israeli real estate event in Borough Park turned ugly on Tuesday night, leading to one arrest. Demonstrators ...

BROOKLYN – A GROUP OF 1,000 Federation of Nurses/UFT nurses at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn on Tuesday filed a notice announcing their intention to strike on March 1, over salary increases and ...

MIDWOOD – POLICE ARE SEARCHING for a crook who stole $29,300 from a Brooklyn woman in November. According to the NYPD, on Nov. 8, an unidentified individual obtained the bank account information ...

ALBANY AND NATIONWIDE — THE CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU must be saved from the Trump administration’s axe, says a coalition of 23 attorneys general, representing nearly half of U.S ...

Edolphus “Ed” Towns Jr. made history as the first African American deputy borough president in 1976, serving through 1982. Towns also served as a U.S. representative for New York’s 10th ...

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — The Brooklyn Academy of Music has announced that Gina Duncan will step down as president when her term ends in June. BAM’s Board of Directors is forming a transition ...

BROOKLYN — CHELSEA ALEXANDER, known professionally as indie rapper Chelsea Reject, has passed away, according to Okayplayer. A key figure in the city’s underground hip-hop scene, she ...

EAST NEW YORK — St. PAUL COMMUNITY Baptist Church is planning to develop up to 800 affordable housing units on its parking lots in East New York to help combat displacement, reports Sight Magazine.

FORT GREENE — A NASSAU COUNTY MAN has been indicted for allegedly stealing the title to a $2 million, three-family home in Fort Greene, marking the second time the property may have been ...

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Police have arrested a repeat offender for allegedly assaulting, robbing and attempting to rape a woman in Brooklyn Heights while impersonating an ICE agent. Leon Howell, 43 ...

CITY HALL — FOUR TOP DEPUTY MAYORS to Mayor Eric Adams, including First Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer, have submitted their resignations, and others have communicated their intent to resign ...