The Mamdani administration opened its inaugural “rental ripoff” hearing in Brooklyn, promising further sessions across New York’s boroughs to interrogate the city’s perennially fraught rental market. Cea Weaver, Mayor Adams’s tenant-chief, struck an…
A $10m bid to manage Aviator Sports at Floyd Bennett Field has bitten the dust, after a technical email misstep left the proposal airborne but untethered; as the lease decision looms, bidders may be double-checking their outboxes, proving yet again that in New York, even ten million dollars can vanish into the ether quicker than an unsent attachment.
Marking 35 years of relentless beat and sweat, Shelter, the migratory New York dance party helmed by Timmy Regisford, will toast its improbable endurance with back-to-back marathons at 3 Dollar Bill in Greenpoint and Public Records in Gowanus. As dance-floor lifespans go, this rivals geological epochs—though Regisford’s 12-hour sets suggest the true secret to longevity is a stubborn resistance to closing time.
Immigration attorney Ray Fasano gave Brooklyn’s Bay Ridge Lawyers their latest crash course in the fine art of not getting deported, parsing legal trends, risks, and the ever-elusive prospect of reform at a Continuing Legal Education seminar. The session underscored, as ever, that staying on the right side of America’s immigration laws remains a moving target—though lawyers’ billable hours seem more reliably fixed.
Neil Sedaka, the Juilliard-trained son of a Brooklyn cabbie whose syrupy hooks underpinned a slew of 1960s and 1970s pop hits, died at 86. As a singer, songwriter and stalwart of Brill Building industry, Sedaka kept toes tapping and registers ringing for decades—fuelled by that unmistakably high tenor and, of course, a knack for making breaking up surprisingly hard to do.
A blizzard typically keeps New Yorkers indoors, but this week a fleet of nimble-fingered Brooklynites flocked to Prospect Park, sculpting dozens of whimsical snow figures from penguins to dragons. The makeshift open-air gallery, spurred by freshly fallen snow, attracted crowds and digital admirers, offering rare harmony between weather and artistry—though, perishably, it promises to melt faster than our collective attention span.
A Brooklyn-based interior designer, keen on bettering his Maine vistas, was fined after officials found him responsible for dosing neighbor Ruth Graham’s vintage cedar and maples with herbicide near Boothbay Harbor. Detectives uncovered bore holes and chemical traces, and while property borders may inspire passion, resorting to tree sabotage suggests our aesthetic instincts sometimes run a bit wilder than Maine’s own foliage—at least when the view is at stake.
We glanced over the Brooklyn Daily Eagle’s curation of February 27th’s world photos, courtesy of the Associated Press, offering glimpses from Ukraine to Beijing. The editorial staff presumably hopes a picture speaks louder than several hundred commissioned words—a strategy that, depending on global bandwidth and attention span, will either illuminate world events or merely decorate another Tuesday scroll.
