Elected and community leaders protest ‘rushed’ Charter Review Commission process

Brooklyn Daily Eagle 7/23 7:40A Brooklyn Eagle Staff

GRAND ARMY PLAZA — Several Brooklyn elected officials and community leaders plan to rally Thursday, July 25, at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Library to denounce what they call an unnecessary rush in the Charter Revision process....

Mobile Food Trucks provide meals to kids during summer recess

Brooklyn Daily Eagle 7/17 11:26A Brooklyn Eagle Staff

PROSPECT PARK — No Kid Hungry New York and the NYC Public Schools are rolling out three mobile food trucks this summer to reach more children with free meals, expanding the program to areas with historically low participation. One truck is being...

Hanif praises crackdown on unlicensed weed stores

Brooklyn Daily Eagle 7/15 11:08A Brooklyn Eagle Staff

PARK SLOPE — CITY COUNCILMEMBER SHAHANA Hanif on Sunday hailed the ongoing crackdown on the city’s gray-market marijuana stores, dubbed “Operation Padlock to Protect,” and reported that two unlicensed stores in her district, PB on the Slope on...

Article XI agreement will preserve Park Slope affordable housing & develop two new buildings

Brooklyn Daily Eagle 7/12 7:32A Brooklyn Eagle Staff

PARK SLOPE — DEVELOPER STELLAR MANAGEMENT, Fifth Avenue Committee, and the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development have closed on an Article XI regulatory agreement that will preserve and rehab a former Mitchell-Lama building at...

The 18 best pasta dishes in New York City, picked by top chefs

CrainsNewYork.com (Banking) 7/10 1:03A Kate Krader, Bloomberg

The dog days of summer conjure daydreams of ice cream, picnics, barbecues?…?and heaping plates of hearty pasta? “I used to think I needed to make the pastas lighter in summer,” says Andrew Carmellini, who serves notable noodles at Locanda Verde,...

Deals of the Day: July 9

CrainsNewYork.com (Banking) 7/9 6:35A Julianne Cuba, C. J. Hughes, Edd

Leases Lending platform takes full-floor space in Midtown Address: 450 Park Ave., Manhattan Landlord: SL Green Realty Corp.  Tenant: Willow Tree Credit Partners Lease size: 11,000 square feet Lease length: Five years Asset type: Mixed use...

Brooklyn songwriters named as finalists in Anthem to US project

Brooklyn Daily Eagle 7/9 6:01A Brooklyn Eagle Staff

GRAND ARMY PLAZA AND LINCOLN CENTER — TWO BROOKLYNITES WERE FINALISTS IN AN ANTHEM-WRITING contest that the Brooklyn Public Library co-sponsored.  Jaquetta Bustion and D L Newton were finalists for their songs “We Are US” and “Big Country,”...

New café at Prospect Park has sustainably-sourced menu

Brooklyn Daily Eagle 7/3 6:43A Brooklyn Eagle Staff

PROSPECT PARK — THE PURSLANE CAFE opens tomorrow, July 4, and will offer sustainably sourced food and coffee daily and cocktails and beverages on select evenings, the Prospect Park Alliance announced. The catering company that runs Purslane Cafe is...

Brooklyn’s Sen. Chuck Schumer threatened by Trump with military tribunal & imprisonment

Brooklyn Daily Eagle 7/2 7:02A Brooklyn Eagle Staff

NATIONWIDE — NEW YORK SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER, a resident of Park Slope, Brooklyn, was one of the top national officials threatened by former President Donald Trump in a social media post on his Truth Social website over the weekend, the New York...

Indian restaurants are Wall Street's new celebration spots

CrainsNewYork.com (Politics) 7/2 1:03A Bobby Ghosh, Bloomberg

My credentials as a culinary contrarian may have peaked three summers ago, when I argued that New York had better Indian restaurants than London. The piece provoked outrage in the British capital, where I was then in residence, and in India , the...

City misses deadline to build homeless shelters for transgender people, advocates say

CrainsNewYork.com (Nonprofits) 6/28 12:33A Amanda D Ambrosio

More than a year and a half after a court-ordered deadline requiring New York City to build trans gender-affirming homeless shelters, those shelters have yet to be built – a fact that advocates say violates the spirit of their court order. The...

Homes for Sale in Manhattan and Brooklyn

NYTimes.com (Times Wire) 6/26 11:02P Heather Senison

This week’s properties are in NoMad, the East Village and Park Slope.

On Politics: Brad Lander's scheming shows Eric Adams' weakness

CrainsNewYork.com (Labor Unions) 6/24 10:43A Ross Barkan

Is another Democrat about to run against Mayor Eric Adams? Reports indicate that Brad Lander, the city comptroller, is strongly considering taking on Adams in the Democratic primary next year. Lander has reportedly told donors he’s interested in...

On Politics: Brad Lander’s scheming shows Eric Adams’ weakness

CrainsNewYork.com (Economy) 6/24 10:43A Ross Barkan

Is another Democrat about to run against Mayor Eric Adams? Reports indicate that Brad Lander, the city comptroller, is strongly considering taking on Adams in the Democratic primary next year. Lander has reportedly told donors he’s interested in...

Millionaire investment banker filmed punching woman at Brooklyn Pride event quits job

NYPost.com (Business) 6/24 6:07A Ariel Zilber

Jonathan Kaye was identified as the man who was filmed punching the woman and knocking her unconscious in Park Slope on the night of June 8.