After a seven-year sober spell, Staten Island Ferry riders can once again booze on board. Last week, the Department of Transportation (DOT) announced that beer, hard seltzers, and canned cocktails will be sold on the ferry for the first time since 2019, alongside expanded snack options like pretzels
Because the economy is working for some people, here are your early links: Donate your clothes, new Bigfoot hoax evidence, Army looking into why two helicopters stopped by Kid Rock's backyard and more. [ more › ]
This week, a look back at four of our featured listings from six months ago focuses on homes in Clinton Hill, Bed Stuy, Midwood, and Flatbush. How did they fare? First up, this 1870s Clinton Hill brownstone hadn't changed hands in decades and is filled with lovingly cared-for period details like… Re
This week, a look back at four of our featured listings from six months ago focuses on homes in Clinton Hill, Bed Stuy, Midwood, and Flatbush. How did they fare? First up, this 1870s Clinton Hill brownstone hadn't changed hands in decades and is filled with lovingly cared-for period details like&hel
Work has begun on the second phase of a long-awaited Upper West Side development offering affordable homes for low-income and formerly homeless seniors. On Friday, the West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing (WSFSSH) announced the start of the second phase of its West 108 development,
by Brennan LaBrie, Brooklyn Paper In December 2024, Rifka Friedman renewed her membership at the Metropolitan Recreation Center in Williamsburg, as she has for 65 years. A day later, she learned the pool was closing. “There was no notice — nothing,” she said. Friedman, a local resident since 1951, l
In the News Man’s Body Found on Rocks at Brooklyn Park: NYPD [NYP] Read More > The post Daily Links: Lawsuit Alleges Accessibility Issues at Dumbo Development appeared first on Brownstoner.
After visiting her son on Rikers Island last June, Benjamin Kelly’s mother dialed 311 in a panic. He was hallucinating about an insect crawling up his nose, dead bodies in the walls and something reaching up from the floor to grab him, Angela Kelly told the operator. She urged the jail’s medical sta
“The issue is not whether these programs work, it is whether we are willing to scale and coordinate them to create an effective continuum of care.” Outside Lincoln Medical Center, The Bronx. (Adi Talwar/City Limits) For years, New York City has struggled to meet the needs of people livin
El reportaje de CalMatters, Evident Media y Bellingcat, identifica al menos a 25 agentes desplegados en múltiples lugares, pero se enfoca en cinco de ellos que usan tácticas agresivas en varias ocasiones en distintas ciudades. Un agente de la Patrulla Fronteriza de EE. UU. detiene a un hombre, que p
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events and public hearings, plus affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon. The post NYC Housing Calendar, March 30-April 7 appeared first on City Limits.
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events and public hearings, plus affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon. Bushwick Inlet Park, pictured here in 2022. (John McCarten/NYC Council Media Unit) Welcome to City Limits’ NYC Housing Calendar, a weekly featur
A correction officer is accused of kicking an incarcerated person in the head and lying about what happened. [ more › ]
High above the reborn residential neighborhood of Downtown Brooklyn, this two-bedroom corner apartment in The Nevins at 319 Schermerhorn Street has the sunlight and dazzling city views that you’d expect from high-rise life. Asking $1,275,000, the home’s sleek, contemporary interiors and condo conven
The Lexington Avenue-63rd Street station on the Upper East Side in May 2017 The defendant allegedly pushed the older man onto the tracks. The victim died days later. [ more › ]
Zohran Mamdani has been Hizzoner for just 88 days, and he’s already navigating the “poisoned chalice” of a big budget deficit he inherited while the credit agencies that could make it much more expensive for the city to borrow money are taking an increasingly dim view of its finances on his watch. H
East New York’s sprawling 10-building Innovative Urban Village complex launched a housing lottery last week for 291 mixed-income apartments. Located at 30 Inspiration Lane (formerly known as 12096 Flatlands Avenue), the building falls under the 10.5-acre project’s first phase, which will include 386
Atsuomi Hotta preparing for dinner service at Uotora. For eight years, Uotora quietly served some of Brooklyn's best omakase. [ more › ]
Rolex on Monday announced its new 30-story flagship at 665 Fifth Avenue will open this fall. Inspired by the watch brand’s signature fluted bezel, the building, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Sir David Chipperfield, will feature a stacked facade with four terraces at each step-back. Th
Another of Prospect Lefferts Gardens' Tudor row houses, this charmer sits within the petite Chester Court Historic District. A storybook exterior lends curb appeal and some period elements were left intact during a reno. The single-family at 25 Chester Court has an updated kitchen, a finished baseme