Todd Maisel is an award-winning photographer with more than 35-years, specializing in breaking news. He currently serves as vice president of the New York Press Photographers. He was honored by the Na
Arts & Culture
Nerdy Burlesque at the Nerdlesque Festival in Coney Island was a great attraction with talent from throughout the country. Paris Original of Seattle WA shows her personality in a Disney kind of way. Todd Maisel/BklynerCONEY ISLAND – Burlesque can be creative, sexually expressive and at times, gender fluid. In some
Announcements
Coney Island opensCONEY ISLAND – Yes, the Luna Park and the Cyclone opened last week to huge crowds, but this past Sunday was the traditional Brooklyn egg cream christening of the famed roller coaster, the bottle of chocolaty goodness broken by the Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, community leaders, and Luna
Announcements
Mayor Bill de Blasio signed an executive order eliminating plastic from city agencies, mostly utensils and other plastics from school cafeterias and city commissaries at a recycling plant in Sunset Park. Todd Maisel/BklynerSUNSET PARK – Mayor de Blasio signed an executive order at the Sims Municipal Recycling Center in Sunset
Business
More than 50 Park Slope restaurants and bars convened on April 10th at the Grand Prospect Hall for the legendary food-and-drink festival A TASTE OF FIFTH.PARK SLOPE – If you ever wished to be able to walk up and down Fifth Avenue in Park Slope and sample the food of
Announcements
The historic Cyclone roller coaster in Coney Island opened Saturday for the season. Todd Maisel/BklynerCONEY ISLAND – The official opening of the Coney Island Cyclone Roller Coaster will occur on Sunday, April 14 with elected officials and local leaders breaking a bottle of Brooklyn egg-cream on the front car. But
Police & Fire
A man was struck and killed by a train at the Fulton Street station on Utica Avenue this morning. Police say he was a city worker. MTA workers check the train with police after the man was struck. Todd Maisel/BklynerBEDFORD STUYVESANT – An unidentified city worker is believed to have
Big Story
A six-alarm fire ripped through 702 44th Street in Sunset Par last night. Todd Maisel/BklynerSUNSET PARK – A massive 6-alarm fire destroyed a Sunset Park apartment building Wednesday evening, injuring 23 people and leaving more than 100 residents homeless, fire officials said. A six-alarm fire ripped through 702 44th Street
east flatbush
EAST FLATBUSH — Some people in East Flatbush call Kings Highway, “Kings Speedway,” in spite of the numerous speed and bus lane cameras and heavy police patrols. But Tuesday evening, speed was responsible for the death of yet another man in the space of three weeks, only blocks apart as a
bath beach
The MTA has begun cleaning the undersides of the elevated L lines on Stillwell Avenue and onto 86th Street of the D line trains following two incidents that occurred on the 7 line in Queens in which debris rained on vehicles, one slicing through the windshield of a car.BATH
brighton beach
CONEY ISLAND/WEST BRIGHTON – Firefighters battled a ninth-floor fire in an apartment in Trump Village this morning, injuring one person and forcing the evacuation of numerous residents from apartments on several floors because of spreading smoke. Residents of the building evacuate through smoke-filled stairways as battled a high rise fire
Central Brooklyn
Chief Joe McKie is greeted by firefighters after the blaze and wished well on his upcoming retirement. Todd Maisel/BklynerFLATBUSH – Battalion Chief Joseph McKie returned to the 41st Battalion headquarters on Snyder Avenue in Flatbush to pick up his harness and rope – to return to the quartermaster as he prepared
Central Brooklyn
KENSINGTON – “I want to say, I enjoyed my grilled cheese a lot–and the barbecue beans, I was impressed. Yeah, so, this is change I can believe in.” Mayor Bill de Blasio (l) and NYC DOE Chancellor Richard Carranza (r) sampled some of the new foods in the school cafeteria