A new StreetLight analysis hands a gold medal to Manhattan, where nearly 60% of trips happen on foot or by bike—a figure far above the American norm. The city’s four most populous boroughs outpace even walking havens like Boston and Hudson County, N…
Carolyn Butts, founder of Reel Sisters film festival and African Voices magazine, and Chino Hardin, co-director at the Center for NuLeadership, have been named “Just Brooklyn” prize winners for championing arts and justice. Their efforts to boost underrepresented voices have won applause beyond Kings County—proof, perhaps, that Brooklyn’s creative ferment still travels well, even if the L train does not.
The New York Fire Department staged its annual block party on Monroe Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, aiming to charm locals with fire safety tips and face-to-face goodwill. These gatherings—now a decade-old citywide tradition—let residents glimpse the human side of Engine 235 and Battalion 57. As ever, we marvel how free hot dogs and the odd siren draw more community engagement than many a public consultation.
Police in Brooklyn have arrested Thimothe Andre, 64, on charges stemming from a January crash that killed Mayya Gil, a 95-year-old Holocaust and Chernobyl survivor who got no reprieve from New York’s traffic. Gil, an active local matriarch, was struck near her home while crossing Cropsey Avenue; her health aide survived. Fatal crashes in the city are, according to NYPD data, stubbornly more enduring than some despots.
Brooklyn’s Golden Krust outlet on Fulton Street, founded by Andrew Thompson—both a sales executive and in-law of the Hawthorne family—marks its 25th anniversary this week. The Caribbean eatery, part of a Bronx-born business rooted in 1989, sprang from Thompson’s takeover of a local “Patty Palace” in 2000. We note that neither Jamaican patty nor family ties have dimmed in flavor, or in commercial resilience.
Flatbush, claimed by the Dutch not once but twice before being subsumed into the swelling metropolis of Brooklyn, owes its present lively mélange to generations of incoming immigrants, relentless urban planning, and, presumably, more than a few property disputes; we marvel that what began as a colonial afterthought now acquires fresh accents—and coffee shops—with each passing decade.
Flatlands, now a quiet Brooklyn neighborhood, traded its marshes and farm plots for suburban lawns as streetcar lines and automobiles linked it to the borough’s bustle. Transit, it seems, made all the difference—shrinking distances and swelling property values—though we suspect the ghosts of former cows may linger resentfully beneath those trim, hyphen-free hedges.
Inter Miami swaggered back to form with a 5-1 rout of the New York Red Bulls, as Lionel Messi notched two goals and two assists, quietly reclaiming his spot as MLS’s top scorer—at 38, no less. The Red Bulls opened the scoring but then conceded five without much protest. We’d call it a comeback, but for Messi lately, this seems suspiciously routine.
Flatbush, once prosaically dubbed Midwout by Dutch settlers in the 17th century, wound its way from farmland to the genteel Victorian streets of Brooklyn and on to the borough’s present patchwork of global cuisine and cultures; our ancestor’s moniker, meaning “flat woods,” endures, even as the neighborhood is now more tree-lined—by brownstones and bodegas—than by actual forests.
