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Here’s a vision of what Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park will look like when its construction is completed. Rendering courtesy of VUW Studio

Atlantic Yards plan for luxury gym raises questions

July 18 | Lore Croghan

An elected official is crying foul about a plan to build a...

A look at some of the details in the famous banking hall. Eagle file photo by Lore Croghan

You can soon party inside one of Brooklyn’s most famous buildings

June 25 | Lore Croghan

The owner of the landmarked banking hall inside the Williamsburgh Savings Bank...

Environmental activists rallied outside the office of Representative Hakeem Jeffries in Fort Greene on Tuesday, pushing him to support a clean air amendment to an energy bill. Photo courtesy of Laura Shindell at Food & Water Watch

Environmental advocates urge Jeffries to lean green

June 18 | Mary Frost

About a dozen climate activists held a rally outside the office of...

Fowler Square before the rain started on Sunday, June 16, 2019. Eagle photo by Noah Goldberg

A Sunday in Fowler Square

June 17 | Noah Goldberg

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BAM's employees will vote today on whether nor not to unionize. Eagle photo by Ned Berke

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June 13 | Mary Frost

Employees across several departments at the Brooklyn Academy of Music will vote...

Happy 200th birthday to famed poet Walt Whitman. AP photo

Visit Walt Whitman’s park on his 200th birthday

May 22 | Lore Croghan

Famed poet and former Brooklyn Eagle editor Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday...

In preparation for ART360˚, artist Nina Summer paints the windows at GreeneGrape Annex. Photo via fabfulton

Dodgers, demos and David Byrne: See live art in Fort Greene this Saturday

May 3 | Mary Frost

Here’s a fun arts destination for Saturday: The second annual...

A rendering of Building 212 as seen from Flushing Avenue. Rendering via Wegmans Food Markets

Brooklyn’s first Wegmans will open in October. Here’s what it will look like.

May 1 | Raanan Geberer

A highly anticipated Wegmans Food Market will open in the Brooklyn Navy...

The Old Stone House, a key site during the Battle of Brooklyn, is the jewel of present-day Fifth Avenue in Park Slope.

Ask a historian: Why is Washington Park Street far from Washington Park?

March 21 | John B. Manbeck

John from Fort Greene asked:  While driving past the eastern side of...

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INTERAGENCY MEETING ON BUSHWICK NIGHTLIFE ISSUES: Ongoing quality of life issues and the tensions that arise between businesses catering to nightlife, other merchants and residents are the focus of a Bushwick Nightlife Interagency Meeting, scheduled for next Tuesday August 16, Community Board 4 has announced.

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CHANCE TO PLAY ON SESAME STREET: Sesame Street is seeking real New York City families, including one that is intergenerational and multi-ethnic for a documentary project on which Caitlin Jones (CDJ Casting) & Danielle Pretsfelder Demchick, DPD Casting, are working. 

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CON EDISON INITIATES VOLTAGE REDUCTIONS: ConEd is reducing voltage in parts of Brooklyn, impacting the neighborhoods of Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bedford Stuyvesant, Bushwick, Crown Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Flatbush, East Flatbush, Ocean Hill, Brownsville, and East New York. 

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The Double Crested Cormorant, spotted in Brooklyn Bridge park. Photo by Heather Wolf, text by Joseph Palmer.

On Buddy Scotto

If Buddy Scotto had his way, there would be gondolas plying the waters of the Gowanus Canal...

— Helen Klein, opening remarks in a remembrance of Buddy Scotto, at the recent renaming of a Carroll Gardens Street

Ice Ages & Climate Change

Could humans live through another ice age? Probably. But like the frog in the frying pan, they may have more trouble with the man-made,  incremental warming of oceans and the LOSS of ice in glaciers.

— Environmentalist, commenting on a
discussion of ice age cycles.

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“The Brooklyn Museum has taken some major steps “The Brooklyn Museum has taken some major steps in transformative changes to reach audiences in the new century. Just one among many is the hiring of a visionary capital projects executive, Brooklyn native Brigham Keehner, to redesign and reinvigorate some of the museum’s public spaces in tandem with the 200th anniversary of its founding. “I came to the museum because of a shared passion for serving the city, its people and its environment with a broader impact on social justice,” says Keehner, who grew up on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights. “It’s an organization that is adept at envisioning how places can heal, restore and reimagine the physical and social fabric of our urban spaces.”’ Read the rest of our “Young Architect, With Deep Roots At Brooklyn Museum, Becomes Lead on $55M Renovation” article, which is linked in our bio.
“Rapper Fetty Wap was jailed Monday after, prose “Rapper Fetty Wap was jailed Monday after, prosecutors from the Eastern District of New York say, he threatened to kill a man during a FaceTime call in 2021, violating the terms of his pretrial release in a pending federal drug conspiracy case. Wap, whose real name is Willie Maxwell, told the man, “Imma kill you and everybody you with,” and flashed a gun during the Dec. 11 video call about two months after his arrest in the drug case, prosecutors said.” Read the rest of our “Rapper Fetty Wap jailed after making FaceTime threat” article, which is linked in our bio.
“A Manhattan judge ruled Friday to throw out the “A Manhattan judge ruled Friday to throw out the New York City education department’s budget and allow the City Council and Mayor Eric Adams to reconsider how to fund schools this year. Judge Lyle Frank ruled in favor of two teachers and two parents who filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court last month, claiming that the city violated state law when it approved the education department’s budget for this fiscal year.” Read the rest of our “Judge orders redo for NYC schools budget” article, which is linked in our bio.
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