District 43 was drawn following the 2020 Census to acknowledge the large Asian population that had settled in Bensonhurst and Sunset Park neighborhoods over the last two decades. The new district is 54% Asian, 27% White, and 15% Hispanic, home to just over 175,000 residents. When it comes to

If you've lived here any length of time you know there is no better way to cool off than heading to the beach (sorry Prospect Park). However, if you've been on a beach after a storm, you may have discovered all kinds of stuff floating in the waters, making you

Brooklyn's St. Patrick's Day Parade - the 48th - will be this Sunday, March 19. Since 2019, it has welcomed LGBTQ members to march along. Bands and marching units will parade from 15th Street & Prospect Park West, going down 15th Street to 7th Avenue, along 7th Avenue to Garfield Place,

Brooklyn Public Library unveiled Jean Shin's sculpture Something Borrowed, Something Blue today, marking the completion of the new Brooklyn Heights Library that opened to the public last June. The sculpture, an illuminated, inverted hanging tree with roots at the ceiling, draws on the tree's symbolism as a sacred symbol of

Red Hook and Columbia Waterfront residents have been asking for a direct local bus through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel to Manhattan even before the Union Street bus was terminated.