The 243rd anniversary of the Battle of Brooklyn — the first major engagement of the Revolutionary War to take place after the U.S. declared its independence in 1776 — is coming up on Tuesday, Aug. 27. More than a dozen events to commemorate the epic battle will be taking place in Brooklyn from Aug. 15 […]
A Park Slope gallery owner is using an old-fashioned means of gathering works for a new art show: snail mail. Through Aug. 6, Krista Scenna is accepting submissions to a Ground Floor Gallery exhibition called “Priority Mail: Our 2019 Mail Art Biennial.” She’s expecting to receive artworks from Chicago, Block Island, Montreal and Brazil for […]
An emotionally disturbed woman hates Mayor Bill de Blasio so much that she called his YMCA on Wednesday with racist threats to blow up the gym — and a bunch of other YMCAs around the city, according to police and news reports. All the threats were unfounded, cops said, and the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit […]