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An 18-year-old kept her grandmother’s locket from a Crown Heights subway mugger. He shot her in the chest, and no straphanger stepped in

An 18-year-old woman was shot in the chest while fighting off a mugger at the President St.-Medgar Evers College subway ...
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Mesiba’s name means ‘party’ in Hebrew. The Williamsburg restaurant just served its last one and is becoming a rentable events space

Mesiba, the Levantine restaurant in Williamsburg’s Moxy Hotel, has closed permanently after opening in March 2024 and will ...
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They ran a vintage shop until 2012. Now they run northern Brooklyn’s go-to doggy daycare, where someone sleeps over with the dogs

Scott and Greer Shatzer transformed their vintage shop into Your Spoiled Pets, northern Brooklyn’s top doggy daycare at 124 ...
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East Williamsburg’s Grand Street is getting a ten-story, 55-unit building. The $29 million to build it just closed.

Developer Mendel Schwimmer secured a $29 million construction loan to build 55 new units in East Williamsburg, though the ...
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Broadway’s biggest characters are getting interrogated in East Williamsburg, and nothing is off-limits

Comedians in full Broadway character face audience Q&A at Eris in East Williamsburg for Musical Theatre Foolishness, a ...
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Bed-Stuy is co-naming a street ‘ODB Jones Way,’ and Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s family will unveil the sign July 25

Bedford-Stuyvesant will co-name a street 'ODB Jones Way' in honor of Wu-Tang Clan founder Ol' Dirty Bastard, with a ceremony and sign unveiling on July 25 featuring his family and Council Member Chi ...
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Monitor Point just cleared the City Council: 662 of its 1,324 new Greenpoint waterfront apartments will be permanently affordable

The NYC Council approved Monitor Point, a 1,324-unit mixed-income complex on Greenpoint’s waterfront, with 662 permanently ...
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Restler held out for 50% affordable, and now Monitor Point’s 1,324 waterfront apartments are coming to Greenpoint

Councilmember Lincoln Restler secured 50% affordable housing for the Monitor Point development, approved by NYC Council, ...
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Waacking was born in Black queer LA clubs in the ’70s. Now South Korea’s top dancers are bringing it to Brooklyn on July 26.

Waacking, born in Black queer LA clubs in the '70s, arrives in Brooklyn on July 26 with South Korea’s top dancer Lip J at ...
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NYC froze rent on roughly a million stabilized apartments. If yours isn’t one, your landlord can still charge whatever they want.

The NYC Rent Guidelines Board froze rent on roughly a million stabilized apartments, but Bushwick tenants in unregulated ...
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Frost Street is getting pedestrian ramps torn up and rebuilt at eight intersections starting Monday, with Cornelia and Bushwick Avenue on the list too

Eight intersections along Frost Street in East Williamsburg will see pedestrian ramps torn out and rebuilt from July 20–25, ...
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The air over New York City is officially ‘unhealthy’: Canadian wildfire smoke and heat pushed the whole state into advisory territory

Bushwick and all of NYC faced 'Unhealthy' air quality on July 16 due to Canadian wildfire smoke and high heat, prompting a ...