Brooklyn
Posted inImpact Update
The state selected a nonprofit team to build 125 affordable apartments, a community center and a health clinic at 1024 Fulton St., which has sat empty for decades.
Posted inNature
This 85-Year-Old Tugboat Is Why You’re Not Freezing Right Now
THE CITY was aboard the Shoofly as it carved through the ice to let barges carrying essential heating fuel make their way up and down Newtown Creek.
Posted inBrooklyn
Billion-Dollar Makeover for Coney Island Boardwalk
The money committed by the outgoing Adams administration could transform the iconic but rickety structure, but that work is still years away.
Posted inHousing
Basement Apartment Rules Get Low Marks from Housing Experts
Long-awaited city regulations to let basement residences get legalized could add risks for homeowners, bring more harm than help, housing advocates and lawyers say.
Posted inBrooklyn
‘He Will Make Sure His Victim Is Silenced’: Survivor Fights Weberman’s Bid for Freedom
Court papers cite more sex abuse victims, community pressure and a pattern of manipulation. But the DA and his defense team contend the Hasidic school counselor’s 50-year sentence for abusing a teen girl was unfairly long.
Posted inBrooklyn, Development
Long-Stalled Atlantic Yards Project Could Be Revived in New Plan
A joint venture called the Brooklyn Ascending Land Company is proposing 9,000 apartments in total for the Prospect Heights site.
Posted inImmigration
Sidewalk Arrests Seize New Yorkers in ICE’s Latest Surge
Activists and legal advocates are tracking seemingly random detentions of immigrants on the streets in what they say is a campaign of ethnic profiling.
Posted inPublic Safety
The ‘Godmother’ of Weed vs. Her Uncle, the DEA Agent
Cannabis officials courted a rising pot star to join New York’s legal market. Then a stunning police raid upended everything and shattered her family.
Posted inAdams World: Investigated
Eric Adams Aide Sentenced in Campaign Fundraising Scheme — With the Mayor’s Absence Noted
Mohamed Bahi was given three years’ probation and a year of home confinement by the same judge forced to drop the mayor’s case. He had withering words for Adams, who was headed to Uzbekistan.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Brooklyn DA Backs Reduced Sentence for Notorious Child Molester
The office of Kings County District Attorney Eric Gonzalez argues the original 103-year sentence for Nechemya Weberman was excessive. His victim objects.

