Bklyner Staff

Ever wanted to be on stage? BAM is putting on the Venice Biennale-winning opera, Sun & Sea, at BAM Fisher, which for the performance will be transformed into a beach, with real sand - twenty-five tons of sand in fact. They are looking to hire some locals to perform as beachgoers

The city has launched an intensive effort over the next month to get our kids vaccinated. The vaccine is currently approved for everyone over age 12. In the past week, over 250,000 calls to parents have been made by the city, letting them know that vaccination could be done

Does the city have enough doses to start giving out booster shots?

On June 20, 2019, around 7 pm Angel Eaddy fired six shots from a handgun at a rival gang member on Schenectady Avenue, near St. Johns Place. In doing so, he struck two innocent bystanders on the crowded Crown Heights stretch. A bullet hit an 11-year-old boy in the chest,

Scattered across Amusement District and Mermaid Avenue, the mural project, Coney Island for Everyone, features the work of 12 local artists on the gates of storefronts of 13 local businesses.

Commissioner Dave Chokshi, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene informed New Yorkers this morning that the third dose of both Pfizer and Moderna COVID19 vaccines is available to immunocompromised New Yorkers starting today. "Late last week, the FDA and CDC recommended that people with certain immunocompromising conditions get the third

As COVID-19 infection rates keep rising across New York City, the city will require certain establishments to verify that staff and patrons are vaccinated against COVID-19 starting on August 17, 2021. Enforcement will begin on September 13, 2021.

New York’s biggest borough just got a little bigger. Brooklyn is just 2,100 people shy of its 1950 population peak, according to the NYC Department of City Planning. Brooklyn grew the most of any of the five boroughs in New York City, according to newly-released 2020 census data,

Did you know you could call the Brooklyn Public Library and listen to a short story? The program started last May as a way to connect with patrons that could not access the library's virtual programming [https://www.bklynlibrary.org/coronavirus/virtual-resources] while the branches were closed during the pandemic.

Neighbors in Greenpoint living near National Grid’s large fracked gas storage depot on Newtown Creek have filed a lawsuit [https://static1.squarespace.com/static/591df0576b8f5b5eb0ae5849/t/60fadd0278122c6dcc56baf3/1627053314678/Petition+and+Complaint_FINAL_PDF.pdf] to stop construction of the company’s Liquefied Natural Gas (“LNG”) Truck Load/Unload Station