The eighth overall pick in June's draft checked in with 10:40 left in the second quarter, Brooklyn trailing by 14, and was immediately met by Toronto's swarming defense. The moment tested his composure, but Demin looked comfortable from the start - handling the ball with confidence, helping organize the offense and flashing his defensive instincts with an early block and a pair of sharp deflections.
Police are investigating a grisly discovery in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood, authorities said Friday. Police say a call about a man found dead in front of an apartment building on East 21st Street came in around 9:15 a.m. Law enforcement sources with knowledge of the investigation say a head and a torso were found in a bag, near the garbage area of the building. The investigation is active and ongoing.
On Oct. 15, the driver of a minivan struck three people an 89-year-old woman, a 75-year-old woman and 43-year-old woman on the sidewalk outside a Neptune Avenue shopping center. The 89-year-old woman, who had initially been identified by police as being 75 years old, was rushed to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, where she was pronounced dead. The other victims taken to Maimonides Medical Center in stable condition.
Avant Gardner LLC, the bankrupt owner of the Brooklyn club complex of the same name, has applied for a permit to demolish the Mirage venue, Brooklyn Paper reports. Having failed to secure reopening permits due to safety and technical issues, Avant Gardner filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in August and handed its assets to a lender. The demolition permit filing does not name the Mirage but seeks to demolish 32,000 square feet of a three-story temporary structure, which describes the Mirage build within Avant Gardner, Brooklyn Paper reports.
One of the priorities for the city budget this year needs to be securing funding for these essential nonprofits, because far too many of them are facing serious budget cuts at the federal level. I pledge to use the discretionary funding that I will have available to shore up nonprofits that are facing steep cuts and to reach out to seniors directly to understand what the gaps in the coverage are and how we can work together to fill them.
The victim drove two men to their requested destination on Duffield Street at about 2:30 p.m, police said. When they arrived, the perps said they wanted to go somewhere else and asked for the cab driver's phone so they could enter the address. Once they had the phone in hand, though, they allegedly leaped out of the car and ran to Concord Street, where a white BMW was waiting for them with two other men inside.
One sip here and you might think you've stumbled into a Parisian salon from another era, not a cocktail bar tucked into the heart of Brooklyn. Bar Rêve opened earlier this month at the corner of Smith and Butler Streets in Cobble Hill, bringing a cosmopolitan flair to its craft with a curated selection of specialty cocktails. Guests receive the cocktail menu in a bound book, which can also be purchased, and is refreshed every 12 to 18 months.
An affordable housing lottery for a new 51-story luxury tower a block away from Fort Greene park is open. The new development has a total of 569 apartments and includes an outdoor pool, a wine and party room, and a games room. The lottery for The Everly, located at 180 Ashland Place, includes 171 studio, one-, and two-bedroom apartments, all rent stabilized and income restricted. They are set aside for households earning 80 to 130% of the Area Median Income, or between $64,766 and $227,500 a year for households of one to five people, according to the listing.
The blaze broke out just after 6 p.m. at a private two-story home at 771 Williams Ave. on Oct. 10, per the FDNY. FDNY arrived on the scene within four minutes, said Assistant Chief Mike Meyers on in a statement. Less than 15 minutes later, with most of the fire under control, firefighters were working to extinguish flames on the first floor of the rear of the home when floor above them suddenly collapsed, trapping two firefighters beneath a large pile of debris.
This Indigenous Peoples Day, Prospect Park is honoring the history and resilience of the land's first inhabitants through a powerful blend of art, storytelling and celebration in Brooklyn. The Prospect Park Alliance and the Éenda-Lŭnaapeewáhkiing Collective (EL Collective) have joined forces to present "Eelunaapéewi Ehaptoonáakanal: Voices of Lunáapeew/Lenape," a new video exhibition at the Lefferts Historic House running through Nov. 30. The exhibit, part of the ReImagine Lefferts initiative, features "video interviews with Lunáapeew/Lenape knowledge-keepers and culture bearers about their relationships to their ancestral homelands."
A group of some of New York's most influential female elected officials joined Democratic mayoral nominee and frontrunner Zohran Mamdani on Friday to slam President Trump's Justice Department for indicting state Attorney General Letitia James. At the same time, the group also condemned mayoral hopeful and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo for refusing to name either the president or New York's top law enforcement official in his Oct. 9 statement, shortly after news broke of the indictment.
Most of us can agree that while we love dogs, our neighborhood lacks the necessary resources to ensure they peacefully coexist with humans. North Brooklyn Dogs launched a census to identify areas of concern and help advocate for safer, cleaner dog parks. In honor of her new book, we shared an excerpt from Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell's The Joy of Snacking (if you've ever experienced choice paralysis at one of our many great bakeries, it should resonate with you).
Leshea Harris, 30, was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on Oct. 8 on a complaint charging her with four counts of endangering the welfare of a child after she allegedly left her four children, including a 4-year-old boy, at the Beach 25th Street apartment of Amariah George, 30, with her four children, while the two mothers went to East New York to rob a woman on New Lots Avenue, according to the criminal complaint.
City Council Member Lincoln Restler introduced new legislation on Thursday to reinstate year-round open dining alongside streets and ease the permit process for restaurants that wish to participate. The bill includes additional requirements for snow removal and new measures to address sanitation issues. Restler's year-round dining bill would include expanding outdoor dining footprints for smaller restaurants, designing safer streets, and allowing more businesses, such as grocery stores, to participate.
A youth development specialist at a Brooklyn juvenile detention center will spend a year and a day behind bars for smuggling in contraband including a crushed-up prescription painkiller that caused one of the young detainees to suffer a non-fatal overdose, according to the feds. Da'Vante Bolton, 32, of Queens, was sentenced Wednesday in Brooklyn Federal Court, after pleading guilty last year to taking bribes to smuggle pot, pills and scalpels into the Crossroads Juvenile Center in Brownsville,
