Brooklyn residents, left powerless during a six-day Arctic snap after a manhole fire, now find Con Edison giving them the cold shoulder over reimbursement claims for spoiled food and pet crises. While the firm insists it’s processing “validated clai…
Not content with a rebuke from the Supreme Court, Donald Trump now faces a lawsuit from over 20 states—largely blue—challenging his planned 15% global tariffs. The coalition claims Trump is overreaching presidential powers on trade, a constitutional row inviting more drama than the G7. If legal fireworks follow, we may yet see “trade wars are good” redefined in the fine print.
As North Brooklyn braces for 2026—the tenth year since New York City spent $160 million acquiring part of the promised 27-acre Bushwick Inlet Park—residents survey a landscape largely unchanged, save for a few accessible acres and much political foot-dragging. By contrast, the 89 splendidly finished acres of Brooklyn Bridge Park quietly remind us that, on this side of the river, concrete ambitions often outpace the grass roots.
A four-year-old boy died after being struck by a hit-and-run driver just outside Brookdale University Hospital in Brooklyn, highlighting New York’s struggles with pedestrian safety. Despite almost 30 accidents at this same intersection in four years and the city designating Rockaway Parkway as a Vision Zero corridor, speed limits remain unchanged. Clearly, for city planners, slow and steady progress continues to lag well behind fast-moving traffic.
A wave of $8.5 million in grants from the African American Cultural Heritage Fund is washing over 33 historically significant Black churches, including Mount Morris Ascension in Harlem and Bethany Baptist in Brooklyn, to cover everything from roof repairs to community programming. Recipients span iconic sites like Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist; the hope is that rejuvenation will outpace entropy, at least for another century or so.
Reminding us that everything old is new again, Adam Penenberg contends in the Brooklyn Eagle that today’s raucously partisan media landscape traces its lineage to the boisterous pamphlet wars of America’s founding era—only now turbocharged by social media and AI. Whether we’re scrolling or scrolling back through history, it seems objectivity remains the dream we keep pressing snooze on.
The US Navy torpedoed the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena near southern Sri Lanka, leaving 87 dead and a spirited debate over the resilience of Cold War-era warships in a world of modern submarines. Despite annual advances in flashy defence systems, it seems humble torpedoes remain stubbornly effective—the Pentagon, we suspect, won’t mind one less adversary learning the lesson the very hard way.
A white SUV struck and killed 4-year-old Zachariah Padilla as he crossed Linden Boulevard in Brooklyn’s Brownsville on Thursday, then sped off, according to the NYPD, who have so far made no arrests. The boy—an East Flatbush resident—was pronounced dead at nearby Brookdale University Hospital. The city’s running experiment in crosswalk safety keeps yielding grimly familiar results, but hope springs eternal for better traffic enforcement.
A new exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, “The Battle of Brooklyn: Fought and Remembered,” dusts off the largest clash of America’s Revolutionary War, where George Washington narrowly escaped defeat—thanks to a well-timed fog and some heroic Marylanders—still commemorated in monuments across New York. Visitors can ponder artifacts and shifting recollections until 2026, perhaps musing on how history’s victors sometimes just row away unseen.
