Kids & Family
A drunk driver has been charged with manslaughter after fatally striking a woman in his gray 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee on Friday in Williamsburg, cops say. Lakierdra Thomas, 32, was texting her boyfriend on her way to buy gifts for her two children when she was killed by the drunk
Central Brooklyn
Candidates for Brooklyn judgeships logged on to a virtual forum [https://www.facebook.com/cbidems/videos/1599686290232968] Tuesday night to introduce themselves to voters. In the process, they provided a glimpse into some of the complex back-room dealings that underpin judicial elections in New York. The forum, organized by the
Announcements
Police outside the Morgan Ave station. Anna Conkling/BklynerBrooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced yesterday that Khari Covington, 29, who resides in an East Williamsburg shelter, has been indicted on numerous charges of assault, strangulation, and burglary as hate crimes and other charges for allegedly attacking seven women in East
Central Brooklyn
Hemalee Patel at a political event in 2020. Liena Zagare/BklynerLast week, the city’s Board of Elections [https://vote.nyc/] named Brooklyn attorney Hemalee Patel as its new General Counsel, replacing scandal-laden Steve Richman [https://nypost.com/2021/02/08/top-ny-elections-board-lawyer-retires-amid-misconduct-probe/] as the Board’s top lawyer. The BOE’
brownsville
Cleveland Smillie, also known as Jah Hammed. (Image courtesy of Quardean Lewis-Allen/Youth Design Center)Cleveland Smillie, a laid-back Jamaican reggae singer known as Jah Hammed whose beloved Brownsville bike shop anchored the corner of Pitkin Avenue and Mother Gaston Boulevard for nearly 40 years, passed away earlier this month.
Bed Stuy
Chirlane McCray, center left, visits a Canarsie vaccination site. Around her, from left to right, are Department of Health First Deputy Commissioner Torian Easterling; site administrator Joanne Yarde; administration manager Kizzi Belford; and operations manager Ed Bobb (Image: Lloyd Mitchell/Canarsie Courier/Pool)New York first lady Chirlane McCray stopped
Bay Ridge
When the going gets tough, the tough make soup. Especially when the tough are in the midst of yet another snow storm, during a global pandemic, in the middle of winter. Tanoreen’s lamb and veggies soup.Photo by Alec Holst.Soup Shop [https://soupshop.org/] aims to help struggling
COVID-19
East Brooklyn Mutual Aid volunteers./ Photo Provided by Natasha SantosThe East Brooklyn Mutual Aid (EMBA) [https://www.eastbrooklynmutualaid.org/about] is hosting a fundraiser [https://www.instagram.com/p/CLc4NUXrReE/] to keep their volunteer group organizing food distribution in Brownsville, Ocean Hills, East New York, and Cypress Hills for another
Bensonhurst
A line forms outside Masbia’s Borough Park location in May 2020. (Image: Alexander Rapaport/Masbia)Masbia, the Borough Park-based soup kitchen and food pantry network [https://www.masbia.org/] that distributes kosher hot meals and emergency food packages, announced yesterday it would double the size of its Brooklyn locations.
Announcements
Brooklyn councilmembers Brad Lander and Antonio Reynoso have partnered before, advocating for reforms across the city over the last eight years in the city council. Now, term-limited, they seek to become the city’s next Comptroller and Brooklyn Borough President, respectively, and are endorsing each other, the two progressive legislators
Central Brooklyn
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a mayoral candidate, served 22 years with the NYPD. | Screengrab/Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams/YouTubeBy Greg Smith, THE CITY. This article was originally published [https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/2/15/22284716/eric-adams-nyc-mayoral-candidate-shooting-nypd] by THE CITY [https://www.thecity.nyc/] The Brooklyn borough
Business
Jessica Stockton-Bagnulo inside Greenlight’s Fort Greene store. Courtesy of Jessica Stockton-BagnuloBefore the pandemic, her days started later and ran longer. Jessica Stockton-Bagnulo, co-owner of Greenlight Bookstore [https://www.greenlightbookstore.com/], would arrive at her store’s location in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, at 8:30 or 9 am and greet