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Judge allows City🧸 Hall to move ahead with Gowanus 🉐rezoning plan
A Brooklyn Supreme Court judge allowed City Hall to m🃏ove ahead Monda♈y with controversial plans to build thousands of apartments near the Gowanus Canal, the site of one of the...
Gotham mustn't let the Gowanus building projects get shot down
If the city is to get growing again post-pandemic, major building projects need to be part of the picture. But the built-in favoritism for anti-development forces is so stro🔜ng that...
NYC woman killed after drunk friend crashes intoꦗ truck, ꧒cops say
A 30-year-old BMW passenger wa😼s killed when her friend behind the wheel drunkenly crashed into a truck on the Gowanus Expressway in Brooklyn, po🍰lice said. Karen Diaz died when pal...
Broo✤klyn couple gets engaged on Gowanus Canal
𒊎 They found love in the muck. Despite its notorious reputation for being a polluted pool of stagnant filth, the Gowanus Canal was recently the site of a marriage🔯 proposal —...
😼 Gowanus Canal — yes, that one — now a fun venue for the summer of COVID-19 𝓡
Ahoy!💮 From this famously filthy canal.
𝕴 NYPD releases chilling body-cam footage of fatal Brooklyn police shooting
🔴 "Get the f–– down!" screams one of two plainclo☂thes officers involved in the gunfight with the suspect in front of the Gowanus Houses in Gowanus on Oct. 15.
Cyclist struc𝓡k by sanitation truck in Brooklyn
A cyclist was left in critical condition when he was struck by a private sanitation truck while riding in Brooklyn on Sunday nig👍ht, cops said. The victim was traveling northbound...
Just another day on the Gowa♕nus Expressw🔜ay
The red and black truck caught fire shortly before 3:25 p.m. on the expressway near🀅 Fort Hamilton and Exit 18 in Bay Ridge, police and✱ FDNY spokespersons said.
▨ Brooklyn residents recall massive flooding during rainstorm
Brooklyn residents were still reeling Tuesday from heavy flooding that wreaked havoc during torrential downpours in the Big Apple a day earlier. Am🐽anda Denesha of Gowanus said she was forced...
Bro𒆙oklyn pool closed during heat wave after infant poops in water
An infant flushed this perfect pool day down the toilet at one Gowanus swimming spot. "Somebody didn't put a Pampers on their kid," a sta🍨ffer at the Doug🍌lass and DeGraw...
City Counc🦹il announces two Brooklyn comm෴unity center renovations
The city will finally breathe life into a pair of long-neglected community centers that are s⛄upposed to serve the residents of two struggling Brooklyn public-housing complexes, officials announced Thursday. The...
Woman gravely injured by falling debris at 🍒Brooklyn bar
A woman was seriously injured when debris from construction scaffolding fell off of a building and crashed into the courtyard of a Brooklyn bar Sunday afternoon, police and fire of𒈔ficials...
Alligator BBQ — yes, alligator — is 𓃲coming to Pig Beach in🌠 Brooklyn
Here’s something you can really sink your teeth into. On Sunday, visitors to Pig Beach in Gowanus willꦚ be saying, “Later, gat🍒or!” as they chomp down on some smoked Louisiana...
Samantha Brown reveals her favorite place to go d♈og watching in Brooklyn
For travel broadcaster Samantha Brown, there’s no place like home. For nearly 20 years, the Park Slope resident, whose second season of “Places to Love” is airing on PBS, has... 🌺
C♐ops rescue lost lamb on Gowanus Expressway 🐬
A cop stationed on a Brooklyn highway to give out tickets Wednesday morning has become a hero after rescuing a wayward lamb found roaming the♏ Gowanus Expressway. Officer Dominick Gatto...
ജ𓄧 Drunk driver struck worker on Brooklyn expressway: cops
A c𓂃onstruction worker is clinging to life after he was struck by a drunken driver as he worked on a Brooklyn expressway early Saturday, cops said. The 64-year-old man —...
Save the speed cameras that save children's lives
As a New York City elem💛entary-school principal, I worry about each and every one of my 350 beautiful “babies” (as I affectionately refer to all PS 124 students, no matter...
'Top Chef' star who poisoned neighbor's tree may face more charges
It’s shear madness. After hitting celebrity chef Adam Harvey with cri𒅌minal charges for poisoning a neighbor’s maple tree, Brooklyn prosecutors are now trying to slap the rogue gardner with even...
No🃏w Brooklynites are throwing axes for fun
Forget shooting pool or playing darts. O♔ne Brooklyn bar offers a much more thrilling way to get your kicks — by throwing axes. Kick Axe, which opened last month in...
This hꦑotel is peak Brooklyn
Is this the most obnoxious hotel in Brooklyn? Baltic Huis, a forthcoming 33-room stay near the Gowanus Canal, houses the borough𝐆’s snot𒆙tiest hipster attributes in a single property. “Nestled among...