Brooklyn Ascending Land Co., led by Cirrus Real Estate Partners and LCOR, has agreed to pay $12 million into a trust fund as penance for the years-long Atlantic Yards affordable housing delay in Brooklyn, escaping further penalties for now; official…
After the death of a pedestrian struck by a pair of riders sharing an unregistered Movcan e-bike near Brooklyn’s Navy Yard, we find New York’s love affair with techy transport again racing ahead of regulation. With 65,000 delivery cyclists, cheap 30-mph bikes and policing as fuzzy as a Citi Bike saddle, Mayor Eric Adams’ new 15-mph limit risks sounding more like a pious wish than a panacea.
The National Weather Service has slapped Queens, Brooklyn, Nassau, and Suffolk with a coastal flood watch from Sunday morning to Monday afternoon, warning of gusts up to 40 miles per hour and up to three inches of rain, especially near Howard Beach. Officials urge New Yorkers to tether or stash garden paraphernalia and potted plants, lest the city gain an unplanned reputation for airborne topiary.
New York City braces for coastal flooding from Sunday noon through Monday evening, after the National Weather Service cautioned that tidal surges could push water up to 2.5 feet over sections of Manhattan, Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens, and Suffolk County. Travel disruptions and soggy basements loom, but, as ever, we await humanity’s heroic resistance to street canoeing and the perennial temptation to test one’s luck in borrowed galoshes.
New York City’s year-round outdoor dining could rise from the regulatory ashes if Brooklyn Council Member Lincoln Restler’s new bill gains traction, reversing last year’s curbs that iced out 90% of pandemic-era participants. The proposal would grant small eateries leeway to expand their pavement empire and let sandwich-slinging grocers join the alfresco fray—proving that, in the Big Apple, even bureaucratic winters might be survivable with enough coffee and clout.
A new plan, funded by a community grant and optimistically titled “Putting People First on Park Slope’s Fifth Avenue — A Vision for the Public Realm,” proposes to turn Brooklyn’s commercial strip into a more inviting patch for pedestrians. We await the data on whether wider sidewalks and fewer cars will entice New Yorkers to stroll, rather than swerve, down Fifth—weather, as ever, remains unconquered.
In Brooklyn, council members William Colton and Susan Zhuang have voiced support for expanding Gifted and Talented Programs, in pointed contrast to Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral pitch to rein them in. The pair argue that broader access fuels academic opportunity, while critics fret over inequality. New York’s perennial shuffle over who deserves a head start leaves us wondering if merit ever truly finds a comfortable seat on the bus.
As the 30th anniversary of the Million Man March nears, we hear Minister Henry Muhammad of Brooklyn’s Mosque #7C reflect on its enduring echoes—born from Louis Farrakhan’s decade-long campaign against violence, the 1995 rally drew nearly a million to Washington, D.C. While hopes for transformation survive, the passage of time has, as ever, been less given to marching than to meandering.
Eileen Baptistin Level, a determined entrepreneur, wants to revive the long-lost cinema experience in Canarsie, Brooklyn—hardly anyone’s idea of Hollywood. After years as a “cinema desert” bereft of silver screens, the neighbourhood has watched residents trek elsewhere for movies. Level’s crusade for big-picture entertainment faces rising costs and land snags, but we remain hopeful her dreams can outshine both Netflix and New York’s labyrinthine zoning rules.
