Brooklyn politicians, including Congressmember Yvette Clarke, urged Washington last week to extend Temporary Protected Status for Haitians, citing the borough’s 150,000-strong Haitian community and Haiti’s ongoing chaos—gang violence makes Port-au-P…
Seven people were wounded in a flurry of shootings near Brooklyn’s West Indian Day Parade, prompting leaders such as Public Advocate Jumaane Williams to urge tighter gun restrictions, some statistical optimism in hand: the NYPD notes citywide gun violence is at historic lows. Locals insist festivities were largely peaceful—though a few party-crashers, it seems, need stronger disincentives than street food and sunshine.
Leon Melohn, longtime Manhattan property player and mastermind of a planned 1,457-unit Gravesend waterfront development, has put his Upper West Side condo—a seven-bedroom, 8,500-square-foot sprawl—on the market for $15.9 million, barely above his 2019 purchase price. If Brooklyn’s tides prove less forgiving than West End Avenue, we imagine the city’s resurgent luxury resale market may have to work overtime.
A sliver of good news for Brooklyn: the Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center has clinched a 2025 Community Health Quality Recognition Badge from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for excelling in patient-centered care and health equity. The nonprofit, long a fixture in Southeast Queens and Red Hook, says its real secret weapon is time-honed trust—a commodity regulators measure less often than cholesterol.
We learn that Orville Etoria, a Jamaican-born Brooklyn resident paroled after 25 years for murder, was summarily deported by U.S. authorities to Eswatini—a country he’d never visited—under Donald Trump’s third-country removal program. Jamaica insists it was willing to take him back; meanwhile, Eswatini holds Etoria, plus four other hapless arrivals, in prison, presumably contemplating both American deterrence and the map for the first time.
