The 2025 edition, "Root & Remedy: Prescriptions for an Uncertain World," converts the festival into a Caribbean Literary Botánica devoted to stories, rituals, and remedies that meets our present moment of upheaval with imagination and resolve.
The delay is a blow to the administration of Mayor Eric Adams, who announced the project next to Governor Kathy Hochul last spring, and a victory for the local politicians and residents who wanted to send the project back to the drawing board.
"He wasn't one of those who woke up with it - that 'I think I'm going to be a rap star.' He discovered that he could do it and he did it well, and he really was intentional about just using it to fund some of the things he wanted to do as a career or as his give-back to the world. And fashion was one of those," said Jackson.
Customers visiting Spectrum locations in Bay Ridge (531 86th St.), Downtown Brooklyn (523 Fulton St.), Park Slope (522 5th Ave.) and Williamsburg (177 North 7th St.) can now access an on-demand ASL interpreter via their smartphone or tablet.
In this painting, I strive to capture the indomitable spirit of the Brooklyn dockworkers at Red Hook Terminal. Their silhouettes stand resolute against the backdrop of towering cranes and vast cargo ships, symbolizing their unwavering strength and unity.
The 2025 edition runs from Wednesday, August 6 to Sunday, August 10, transforming North Brooklyn into a hub for international storytelling, cinematic risk-taking, and community energy.
Delivery workers who live in Brooklyn's Ebbets Field Apartments can now swap their dead e-bike batteries for charged ones without leaving their sprawling apartment complex.
The 725-kilowatt solar array will deliver clean electricity to about 200 Sunset Park families, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and lowering energy bills by 20%.
Bamonte's Restaurant, located in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood, has operated since 1900 and remains a quintessential local dining experience that celebrates history and tradition.
Forty-seven years after the disco phenomenon hit the big screen, Bay Ridge native Michael "Kaves" McLeer dedicated the bench to John Travolta and Karen Lynn Gorney, who portrayed Tony Manero and Stephanie Mangano, their iconic characters, and "all the Brooklyn dreamers."
"I feel really proud to bring it back to Brooklyn," Hodgkinson told Brooklyn Paper. "Brooklyn's been my home for almost eight years, so it means a lot - not only sharing the victory with myself, but the place I call home now."
Morales described the council member's rhetoric as inflaming 'a violent and divided political climate,' stating she fears harassment and threats from Paladino's followers.
"I can't sleep over this," said Luisa, a P.S. 176 mom who helped organize the demonstration. (Some parents' identities have been protected for fear of retaliation.)
Adams recognized the need for safety upgrades years before he came into City Hall in public comments as Brooklyn borough president in 2018 and 2019. "If someone wants to ride down Third Avenue, that is extremely intimidating, that must be at the top of our list," then-Borough President Adams said at a 2018 Bike-to-Work Day ride. "Nothing can be more chilling than coming under the Hamilton Avenue. That was really frightening, the noise, the sound, the overhead, no real directional signal."
"Our Lady, in the year 1251, on July 16th, gave the scapula to Saint Simon as a gift and a promise of her assistance and prayer and our devotion to her," said Philip Franco, emcee and chairman of the event. "So for well over 800 years, it's been a big part of Catholicism."
NYCEDC is proposing a new NYC Ferry route connecting Bay Ridge to St. George Terminal on Staten Island, fulfilling a historical ferry route that has been inactive for decades.
Concrete recycling operations were loud, generating huge clouds of concrete dust that blew across the neighborhood and into their homes. Short-term exposure to cement dust is known to cause irritation to lungs and eyes.
The Department of Transportation has developed an Intersection Safety Improvement Plan after months of growing concerns from the bicyclist's community over the busy intersection of Jay and Sands streets in Brooklyn Heights.
Inside the performance room, a trio of glowing lamps - one purple, one orange, one green - bathe the 'ballroom,' as McClain calls it, in a mesmerizing, ethereal glow.
The Ozlo Sleep earbuds are some of the most comfortable and effective sleep earbuds I've ever tested, and I can't recommend them enough to anybody who needs to quiet down their bedtime environment.
SMURFS Summer was a big blue hit! Everyone loved spending some time with their favorite characters. We're grateful for Paramount Pictures' generous support.
Gowanus, once instrumental for Brooklyn's industrial boom, is now home to converted warehouses, sleek high-rises, and indie venues, embodying a blend of grit and development.
Namel Colon, a Lower East Side resident, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree manslaughter for fatally shooting Jennifer Ynoa.
When firefighters arrived on the scene, smoke was pouring from the windows of a fourth-floor unit, and several people were trapped inside the building, including one woman who waved a napkin from her open window to get the attention of firefighters down below.
