Titled "Migration," the project marks the second phase of a broader cultural initiative that began with the landmark restoration of Harlem Renaissance sculptor Richmond Barthé's "Exodus and Dance" frieze. The restoration received the 2025 Moses Award for Preservation Projects from the New York Landmarks Conservancy and the 2025 Excellence in Historic Preservation Award from the Preservation League of New York State. The heritage walk honors the "Great Migration" and features 35 illuminated steel sculptures ranging from six to 12 feet high, spread across the 16-acre campus. The installation amplifies the voices, memories, and aspirations of Kingsborough residents while honoring the recently restored, monumental 8-foot-by-80-foot frieze, installed in 1941.
Like many American cities, the streetscape in downtown Brooklyn was for a long time very heavy on the street: a great place to park a car or drive through. But over the past 20 years, the area itself has gone from being a 9-to-5 shopping and business district to one where a growing number of people live 24-7. Since 2004, more than 22,000 housing units have been added to the neighborhood, changing its character so much that its old streetscape just wasn't cutting it.
For decades, Seddio was the force behind Canarsie's most famous holiday attraction: a dazzling display at his law office at Flatlands Avenue and East 93rd Street. Each year, the building was wrapped in more than 150,000 lights and filled with mechanical figures, moving scenes and inflatable decorations that attracted thousands of visitors and rivaled the most elaborate displays across the five boroughs. The tradition stretched nearly 50 years before dimming in 2021, when Seddio put the historic property up for sale.
According to police, the suspected perpetrators, two men and one woman, approached the victim and began arguing with him. The suspects then punched and kicked the victim in the head and body and, at one point, brandished a knife, police say. They took the victim's black book bag, which police valued at roughly $46, and left the train at the Flatbush Avenue station and fled on foot to unknown locations.
Safe streets advocates renewed their call on Monday for installing a two-way protected bike lane along Brooklyn's Lafayette Avenue following an early morning crash that, police say, left an e-bike rider in critical condition. The group Transportation Alternatives says the intersection of Lafayette and Bedford Avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where a 40-year-old e-bike rider was struck by a 27-year-old driver behind the wheel of an Acura SUV on the morning of Dec. 8, is deadly.
The St. George route runs about every 37 minutes during peak hours and roughly every 50 minutes during non-peak hours, with stops in western Manhattan at Midtown West/Pier 79 and Battery Park City before reaching Staten Island's St. George Terminal. Travel time from St. George to Bay Ridge's ferry slip at the American Veterans Memorial near Owl's Head Park is approximately 11 minutes.
For two days, Red Hook will once again become the center of New York's experimental publishing scene as Pioneer Works hosts its sixth annual "Press Play" fair, an independent celebration of books, music, art and cultural risk-taking. Running Dec. 13-14, the fair has grown into one of the borough's most anticipated year-end events, drawing hundreds of visitors who come not just to browse but to immerse themselves in the spirit of creativity that defines Brooklyn's underground.
Once the 50-ton diner is in place on the flatbed, it will be travel from Williamsburg to the movie studio about 1 mile away. It will be hoisted off the truck and placed in its final location Monday morning. The diner, which first opened at 225 Wythe Avenue in 1968, is no stranger to the film industry, with appearances over the years in movies like "The Good Shepherd" and "Men in Black 3."
These themed nights let fans truly feel seen, as Jackie Wilson, Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer, told amNY. He has made it his mission to connect the team with the fans through these initiatives. Wilson delicately crafts these intricate nights to enhance the experience of watching a game, it's more immersive than you'd think. The arena buzzes with excitement, matching any typical basketball game, but the representation throughout the crowd and on the screen creates a magical atmosphere.
Baltic Street Wellness Solutions will host "V.I.B.E.: An Evening of Jazz with the Kevin Oliver Jr. Group" on Dec. 5, bringing music, community and mental health advocacy together at the Isaac Brown Healing Arts and Community Center in Sunset Park. The event, running from 6 to 9:30 p.m., aims to raise funds for the nonprofit's health equity initiatives and holistic mental health and recovery services for vulnerable New Yorkers. The theme, V.I.B.E. - short for Valuing Inclusion, Belonging and Equity - reflects the organization's 25-year mission of providing safe, supportive services.
Because Brooklyn used to be a far less expensive place to live - for those among us who are Manhattan snobs - it comes as a shock that houses "way over there" can now cost as much as examples in gentrified parts of Harlem. Some housing in sections that have become almost exclusively white, like Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights, costs far more.
City Council Member Shahana Hanif, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, Deputy Public Advocate for Education and Opportunity Elizabeth Kennedy, and the Workers' Justice Project stood alongside affected workers at a press conference on Dec. 2 outside Indian Spice on Seventh Avenue. They demanded that the restaurant's owner, Mariam Khandakar, finally comply with the order now that her appeal period ended on Nov. 24, making the ruling enforceable.
"It was my favorite song back then, but I didn't really know what it meant," he told Brooklyn Paper. "And now going back to and listening to 'Losing Myself,' I'm like, I knew that was my favorite song on the album, but I wasn't really sure why. It's about not really knowing what you're going to get into, but you're going to lose yourself in the moment."
The actor and his filmmaker wife, Jo Andres, sold their brownstone at 460 Fifth Street for $4.99 million, according to a deed posted Monday. The deal seems to have been made off market, and the buyers are a pair of family trusts. The house is a cartoonishly typical three-story brownstone two blocks off Prospect Park by Seventh Avenue - an area that, unfathomably today, wasn't as fancy when the couple bought it in 1997, not long after Buscemi's memorable roles in Fargo and Reservoir Dogs.
NEW YORK - Michael Porter Jr. scored 35 points, Noah Clowney had 18 and the Brooklyn Nets beat the Charlotte Hornets 116-103 on Monday night. Nic Claxton added 13 points, 11 rebounds and six assists for Brooklyn, which had lost four in a row. Reserves Danny Wolf and Drake Powell each scored 10 points. Porter went 7 for 11 from 3-point range.
MetroCards will be making their curtain call on Dec. 31, when sales of the card will cease in favor of the contactless Tap and Ride payment system becoming the default in the New Year. For those who will still have balances on their MetroCards after the cards go away, the MTA is rolling out a fleet of mobile sales vehicles to supplement the opening of 15 additional Customer Service Centers to help customers transition to Tap and Ride.
The right buyer might see the potential in this Midwood dwelling that was built as a two-family in the early 20th century and still has a bit of interior detail left. The standout detail is an Arts and Crafts style mantel in the upper duplex, but there are wood floors, pocket doors, and a beamed ceiling as well. At 968 East 10th Street, the house was part of the Midwood Manor development begun in 1908.
Life Time, creator of 185 athletic country clubs including 13 in the Big Apple, signed a lease for a mammoth health-and-fitness mecca at Charney Companies' and Tavros' 175 Third St. with 85,000 square feet indoors on three levels, plus a 13,000 square-foot rooftop pool deck. Soon to be the largest building in Gowanus, 175 Third St. is part of the development partners' five-building campus called Gowanus Wharf.
In the spirit of giving, affordable housing developer Tredway partnered with City Harvest, New York City's first and largest food rescue organization, to distribute more than 500 turkeys and 7,000 pounds of fresh produce including sweet potatoes, peppers and lemons to families in need at the Sea Park Apartment Community, a three-tower complex in Coney Island, on Nov. 25.
IT's Thanksgiving, and we are thankful for another completed station renovation here at church Avenue, said Lieber, who lives close by to the station. This is a busy station, folks. I'm going through it every day. The new ADA elevators are always the headline when we do these projects, but we did a ton of other work to upgrade the station.
