After several days of relentless heat in New York City, the weather forecast for July 4th weekend looks mostly cool and rainy [https://weather.com/es-US/tiempo/horario/l/9997af9d31e8bd8419a6acaccbb4e26a4010f26b7425354247dccdd32f5c147f] . But whether or not the sun is shining, there’s plenty to do in Brooklyn the next few days. Here
Whether or not the sun is shining, there’s plenty to do in Brooklyn the next few days.
bklyn sounds
Learnings, insights, new truisms and beefs with the new live music reality
police and fire
Over a dozen alleged members of a Flatbush-based street gang have been charged in an 81-count indictment that includes charges related to 11 shootings, the Brooklyn District Attorney (DA) announced today. The 14 alleged members of the “Babiiez” street gang are facing charges that include conspiracy to commit murder, weapons
Real Estate
A state-imposed moratorium halted nearly all residential eviction proceedings, but urgent cases concerning building conditions and harassment have continued, mostly virtually. That is now changing.
Politics
Budget experts, comptrollers and advocates for a range of causes assailed the plan as unsustainable. The next mayor will face billions in budget deficits, writes THE CITY's Greg David.
green
Con Edison has announced plans to transform a vacant Gowanus lot into a “first-of-its-kind” clean energy hub with battery energy storage and 18 electric vehicle chargers.
Good evening. I hope you still have power, unlike thousands of us across the city. This afternoon the city issued an alert urging residents to conserve power to prevent further blackouts. Let's hope it's working as we wrap yet another hot, hot day, and that we
real estate
The application portal has opened for below-market-rate apartments at the newly-built Caton Flats development in Flatbush.
weather
The city is asking New Yorkers to conserve energy in the face of a roiling heat wave that has already forced power outages across the borough.
Transportation
MTA is set to start work on replacing the elevator serving the Flatbush Ave-Brooklyn College 2/5 station on July 7. The work is expected to take six months and will render the station ADA inaccessible to people who depend on the elevator for access. MTA is suggesting B44 to
Education
The announcement comes one week before the summer program is set to launch for most students, writes Chalkbeat's Alex Zimmerman