“I really could not believe what was going on,” he told the Eagle. “Young children sitting on blankets, crying … surrounded by mobs of people trying to find a spot to view the fireworks.” He added, ...

Sad that people can't be enjoying an event like a fireworks display without feeding their mobile phone addictions. It's bad enough that we have a city of zombies staring at their devices as they weave ...

Monday, July 7 through Friday, July 11 — late nights all week the only service at Court Street and at the N/R platforms at Jay Street-MetroTech will be Manhattan bound N trains and Brooklyn bound Q ...

The Hudson Companies and Marvel Architects (designers of the Pierhouse and 1 Hotel at Brooklyn Bridge Park) have been identified as the development team of choice for a new residential tower on the ...

Opponents of the new residential buildings being constructed at the north and south ends of Brooklyn Bridge Park were out in full force at the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation’s (BBP) board meeting ...

For those not familiar with Pete’s Waterfront Ale House, the Atlantic Avenue bar has been a neighborhood staple for almost two decades. It is owned by Sam Barbieri, who was classically trained at the ...

According to Brooklyn Community Board 2 starting at 2:00 pm on Friday, July 4 and until 11:00 pm, the Brooklyn Heights Promenade will be closed to the public, and many Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO ...

If this is true — that the Mayor is shutting down much of our neighborhood and closing off the Promenade so that his NYPD pals can get the best view of the fireworks — this entire July 4th plan should ...

We recently went on a trip back in time at some of the restaurants in the North Heights. Now it’s time to start doing the same down on Montague Street. What was there before today’s eateries? What do ...

by Beth Eisgrau-Heller In case you haven’t heard, PS8 is overcrowded. The Annex, completed in 2011 was supposed to help. Instead it was filled to capacity almost the minute it opened. Add unchecked ...

48 Hicks Street, the four-story building originally constructed as a Federal style frame house in 1829 and altered significantly over the years, will be altered yet again. The city’s Landmarks ...

We’re all incredibly lucky to live in Brooklyn Heights; to put it bluntly, we are lucky that there were wealthy, powerful, vocal people in BH around in the midcentury, to resist Robert Moses’s putting ...