A woman was struck and killed by a hit-and-run school bus full of students while she was crossing a Brooklyn street Thursday afternoon, according to cops and sources. The female pedestrian was attempting to cross the street at the intersection of 23rd Avenue and Bath Avenue in Gravesend just after 3 p.m. when the school bus driver failed to navigate the roadway properly and careened into her, the NYPD said.
An 81-year-old man died after a fire ripped through the fifth floor of a Brooklyn apartment building Thursday, cops said. The blaze ignited inside the building on 47th St. near 12th Ave. in Borough Park around 2:45 p.m., according to cops and firefighters. The victim was found dead inside an apartment, cops said. His name is being withheld until after his family is notified of his death.
In celebration of Black History Month, a photo installation at Brooklyn Borough Hall is putting "Brooklyn's Finest: Legends in Focus" in the spotlight, paying homage to Brooklyn's hip-hop history and the photographers who chronicled the evolution of the borough's hip-hop culture and the arts during the genre's most pivotal years. Images include the historic 1998 "Greatest Day in Hip-Hop History" photo by Gordon Parks, featuring influential rappers, DJs, producers and artists gathered on a Harlem brownstone stoop;
EAST FLATBUSH - A SCHOOL SAFETY agent at I.S. 285, the Meyer Levin Middle School for the Performing Arts, in East Flatbush suffered a knife wound to the calf on Wednesday, after intervening in a brawl between two students, the New York Post reports . The fight broke out on Beverly Road, outside the school, at 3:10 p.m., before the agent, age 53, stepped in to try to halt it.
Flynn, most recently chief fire marshal, will oversee day-to-day FDNY operations across bureaus and offices. He was appointed to the FDNY in 2005, rose through Ladder Company 114 to fire marshal leadership and has led the Bureau of Fire Investigation since April 2021. The department credited Flynn with shaping its response to lithium-ion battery hazards and pushing legislation to curb unregulated batteries.
SHEEPSHEAD BAY - RESIDENTS IN SHEEPSHEAD BAY woke Tuesday, Feb. 3, to flooded basements and first-floor apartments after a water main burst around 2:30 a.m. on a block between Emmons Avenue and Shore Parkway, according to . Water and mud poured into garages and homes, freezing on streets and around parked cars.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani endorsed Gov. Kathy Hochul for reelection on Thursday, offering the moderate governor some progressive heft as she faces a challenge from her political left in her campaign for a second full term in office. In an op-ed in The Nation, Mamdani, a Democrat, noted his political differences with the governor but wrote that he's "come to trust Governor Hochul as someone willing to engage in an honest dialogue that leads to results."
"The Department of Investigation's delay allows harm to continue in real time," the former Rikers social worker, Justyna Rzewinski, told THE CITY. "When investigations stall, they fail the very people they are meant to protect."
For years now, the standard nightmare about artificial intelligence has gone something like this: a machine is given a simple task - make paperclips, say - and, pursuing that goal with flawless, inhuman logic, it never stops. It makes paperclips when we ask it to. It makes paperclips when we beg it not to. It makes paperclips when the factories are full, when the cities are buried, when the oceans are choked with bent wire.
ON THIS DAY IN 1877, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, "The Woman's Centennial Chorus, whose singing was a special feature at the opening and closing ceremonies of the International Exhibition, has been permanently organized, under the title of the Thomas Choral Society. A series of concerts will be given in Philadelphia by the Society, with Mr. Thomas as leader, and in conjunction with his renowned orchestra."
The one-of-a-kind celebration transforms the iconic fast-food restaurant into a festive, sit-down dining destination complete with hostess seating, tableside service, and Valentine's Day décor throughout the Castle, and Lovebirds seeking a more low-key celebration of their everlasting adoration for each other - or who were too late to the table to score a reservation at their favorite restaurant - will enjoy a decadent cuisine of Sliders, Shrimp Nibblers, Strawberry and Cream Waffles and other noteworthy menu items.
FreshDirect's drivers, runners and loaders are represented by United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 2013, which has a bargaining unit of about 670 employees. The current contract, which expired at the end of 2025 and was extended until Feb. 6, allows 14% of deliveries to be handled by third parties. In negotiations, FreshDirect is now proposing to increase that number to 40% this year,
Mayor Zohran Mamdani's film-director mother's name was mentioned several times in the newly released trove of documents tied to late pedophile and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, prompting a slew of misinformation online that Hizzoner said Wednesday is incredibly difficult. AI-generated images depicting Mamdani as a child alongside his mother, Mira Nair, and Epstein began circulating online following the latest document drop by the Department of Justice.
WASHINGTON, DC - A BILL THAT TWO BROOKLYN CONGRESSMEMBERS HAVE COSPONSORED would require U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection to perform an initial health screening on detainees. House Resolution 7335 , which Rep. Raul Rodriguez, Democrat of California, introduced on Tuesday, Feb. 3, and which is now referred to committee, has 73 cosponsors, including eight from New York and two from Brooklyn: Reps. Nydia M. Velazquez, D-07, and Dan Goldman, D-10.
There would be considerable historical irony if the court decides to use the 14th Amendment to provide the legal cover for reversing a generation of Black political progress in the South. Initially designed to enshrine federal civil rights protections for freed people facing a battery of discriminatory " Black Codes" in the postbellum South, the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause has been the foundation of the nation's modern rights-based legal order, ensuring that all U.S. citizens are treated fairly.
The $16 billion Gateway Tunnel project would replace a 116-year-old train tunnel that serves 200,000 commuters between New York and New Jersey each weekday. The two tubes, which carries Amtrak and New Jersey Transit trains, are crumbling after a century-plus of use and severe damage from 2012's Superstorm Sandy. New York and New Jersey Attorneys General Letitia James and Jennifer Davenport, respectively, filed the states' Feb. 3 lawsuit
MANHATTAN - THE GATEWAY COMMISSION SUED the U.S. Department of Transportation, alleging the agency is withholding $205,275,358 in contractually required payments for the $16 billion Hudson River rail tunnel project and forcing a potential work stoppage Feb. 6 that could cost about 1,000 jobs, reports The case, filed in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, comes as the Gateway Development Commission warns its credit line is exhausted and contractors may be unable to keep building sites active on both sides of the river.
WILLIAMSBURG - WILLIAMSBURG GAY BAR Macri Park shuts abruptly after announcing on Instagram Jan. 13 that it is closing, leaving staff and performers without an explanation and canceling events that were still advertised on the venue's website, Gay City News reported. Drag performer Mambiche, host of the bi-monthly "Mambi Mondays" karaoke night, said the shutdown blindsided workers. "It took everyone as a surprise. It hurt a lot of people," Mambiche said.
The shoveling connection was established by me in 2022 after I noticed on the Bay Ridge Talk page seeking people to shovel while also seeing separate posts about people looking for work to shovel,
For four days this month, Williamsburg will again become home to "the Coachella of podcasts" as On Air Fest returns to Brooklyn with one of its most ambitious lineups yet. Running from Feb. 23 to 26, On Air Fest 2026 will span three walkable neighborhood venues: the Wythe Hotel, Arlo Williamsburg and The XX Venue. The event will feature live podcast tapings, intimate interviews, performances, panels and industry conversations that explore how audio, media and culture intersect and evolve.
DOWNTOWN AND BROOKLYN NAVY YARD - PHONE THEFTS are spiking at Brooklyn venues, with fans reporting missing devices after shows at Brooklyn Paramount in Downtown and Brooklyn Storehouse in Brooklyn Navy Yard.
As Winter Storm Fern swept across the United States in late January 2026, bringing ice, snow and freezing temperatures, it left more than a million people without power, mostly in the Southeast.
National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell likely didn't have the sensibilities of the U.S. president in mind when the choice of Bad Bunny was made. One of the top artists in the world, Bad Bunny performs primarily in Spanish and has been critical of immigration enforcement, which factored into the backlash in some conservative circles to the choice. Bad Bunny's anti-ICE comments at this year's Grammy Awards will have only stoked the ire of some conservatives.
Given that the same sanitation workers who pick up trash have been clearing the foot of snow and ice that fell last Sunday, we are about one day behind on collection, and we ask for patience from New Yorkers while we catch up,
