A meeting at Red Hook Initiative (RHI) on October 16 informed Red Hook Residents about the Permanent Affordability Commitment Together (PACT) program and how it could affect them. Local leaders, including Andrea McKnight and Henry Watkins, spoke to the crowd of approximately 35 people. Representatives from District 38 Council Member Alexa Aviles and District 51 Assembly Member Marcela Mitaynes also attended.

Election season is right around the corner, and New Yorkers will have more than candidates to consider on their ballots. On Nov. 3, voters across the five boroughs will also decide on five proposed amendments to the city charter. The proposals were developed by the Commission on Government Efficiency (COGE), which Mayor Zohran Mamdani created in May to identify ways

Throughout Rosette Diaz’s life, she excelled. The elder of two sisters born to immigrant parents, Rosette met and rose to challenges as first-born children so often do. Ultimately, only cancer could overcome her; but, reader, she fought like hell against metastatic breast cancer until September 7, just shy of her 40th birthday, when she passed away holding the hand of

A months-long power struggle within the Brooklyn Democratic Party is threatening to drain the party’s finances just weeks before Election Day, raising concerns that the infighting could undermine Democrats’ efforts to reclaim three Republican-held Assembly seats in November. The dispute between outgoing party chair Rodneyse Bichotte-Hermelyn and New Kings Democrats, a reform faction that won enough district leader seats in

A forum on how the Brooklyn Marine Terminal (BMT) can serve all of Brooklyn—and the city at large—drew a full house at the Sacred Hearts Church in Carroll Gardens on Monday night, Sept. 28. It was rather star-studded, too, at least as far as local celebrities are concerned: Democratic nominee for Congress Brad Lander made an appearance, and a quartet

Two people, a 25-year-old woman and a 23-year-old man, were shot on Sunday night opposite the Amazon Fulfillment Center on 55 Bay St. They are both in stable condition. At 11:15 p.m., police from the 76th Precinct responded to a 911 call of two people shot, the woman in the chest and the man in the shoulder. According to the