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Monday morning, July 14 through Friday evening, July 18 — the only late night service at Court Street and at the N/R platforms at Jay Street-MetroTech will be Manhattan bound N trains (Brooklyn bound ...

This Thursday evening, July 10, this year’s Pluto TV Movies With A View starts on the Harbor View Lawn of Brooklyn Bridge Park with Bottoms, “a hilarious, subversive teen comedy about two queer ...

Sad that people can't be enjoying an event like a fireworks display without feeding their mobile phone addictions. It's bad enough that we have a city of zombies staring at their devices as they weave ...

According to Brooklyn Community Board 2 starting at 2:00 pm on Friday, July 4 and until 11:00 pm, the Brooklyn Heights Promenade will be closed to the public, and many Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO ...

“I really could not believe what was going on,” he told the Eagle. “Young children sitting on blankets, crying … surrounded by mobs of people trying to find a spot to view the fireworks.” He added, ...

As we noted in November of 2023, at that time equipment was in place to measure the weight of trucks traveling on the northbound, or Queens-bound, lanes of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. These are ...

As reported by Mary Frost in the Eagle, the Brooklyn Heights Promenade will soon be protected by two video surveillance cameras each of which will be placed near an entrance to the Promenade. This ...

This weekend – late Friday evening, June 20 to early Monday morning, June 23 – just like last weekend there will be no service at the 4/5 platforms at Borough Hall as 4 trains will originate and ...

This coming Tuesday, July 1, the Center for Brooklyn History, 128 Pierrepont Street, will present “Brooklyn Bee,” a spelling contest in which the words will all be Brooklyn related, “from historic ...

If this is true — that the Mayor is shutting down much of our neighborhood and closing off the Promenade so that his NYPD pals can get the best view of the fireworks — this entire July 4th plan should ...