Tag Archives: Brooklyn

Via Brooklyn Paper: He’s going up s—’s creek! A clean-water activist plans to take the ultimate plunge on Earth Day, swimming 1.8 miles through Brooklyn’s nautical purgatory — the Gowanus Canal. Serial activist Christopher Swain will don a drysuit and traverse the canal from its “source” near Butler Street between Bond and Nevins streets to New York Harbor to call …

Via Politico: The lease is signed: Hillary Clinton’s campaign headquarters will work out of 1 Pierrepont Plaza in Brooklyn Heights, according to a source familiar with the deal. The campaign will occupy two full floors of the office building, which is close to 12 subways lines and a dozen bus lines, and will be taking them as is – no …

The New York Daily News reports: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hailed with rock star status Monday in Brooklyn Federal Court at a ceremony marking the 150th anniversary of the Eastern District of New York. Ginsburg was presented with a T-shirt — nearly as long as the diminutive justice — in keeping with the online cult fandom …

Gothamist has unfortunate news for Billyburg nightlife: Brokelyn reports that the L will not run overnight between 8th Avenue and Bedford Avenue on weeknights from March 24th to May 22nd. Indeed, it will turn into a pumpkin from midnight to 5 a.m., Tuesdays through Fridays, for six weeks. Hope you don’t work in the service industry! And again, there will …

Yesterday about 2500 people took part in the annual Polar Bear Plunge during sub-freezing temperatures at Coney Island, where lifeguards warned participants not to proceed deeper than their waist and not to remain in the water for more than one minute.

1.2M views for an impromptu subway platform dance party led by a little girl. Filmed at the Bedford Avenue station in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Via Gothamist: Thousands of Orthodox Jewish rabbis gathered in Brooklyn this weekend for the 31st International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries. According to a press release, over 4,200 rabbis from over 80 countries all convened in Crown Heights for an annual event aimed at reviving Jewish awareness and practice around the world. It all culminated with the Rabbis coming together outside …

“Beep” is tabloid shorthand for “borough president.”

The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating a brutal street attack on Brooklyn transgender woman that took place on Sunday night. From the New York Daily News: The four bias brutes who beat a 28-year-old transgender woman unconscious on a Brooklyn street corner — leaving her with critical injuries — spewed anti-gay epithets and demanded to know what she …

Via DNA Info: Three suspects have been arrested for shouting anti-gay slurs at a group of men dressed as women and shooting one of the them over the weekend, police said. Cody Sigue, 22, Matthew Smith, 21, and Tavon Johnson, 17, got into an argument with the victim around 7 a.m. Saturday on Broadway near Putnam Avenue, according to police. …

Via press release: For many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth in Central Brooklyn, being rejected by parents or family members can lead to risky and dangerous behavior. Project Accept LGBT Youth (ALY), a CAMBA HIV prevention initiative, is working to change this by encouraging parents, guardians and families to accept these young people. Funded by the New York …

Today and tomorrow New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is hosting Democratic party officials who will tour Brooklyn’s Barclays Center as the prospective location for the 2016 Democratic National Convention. De Blasio’s bid seems to have dim prospects. While no one puts on a show like New York, and hometowner Hillary Clinton may be the party’s nominee, many top …

New York City woke up yesterday morning to see that the massive American flags that fly atop each of the towers of the allegedly highly-guarded Brooklyn Bridge had been replaced by white flags. Surveillance footage shows that the flag’s spotlights suddenly winked out around 3am and investigators found that they’d been covered with aluminum tins. Getting to the top of …

New York City’s most disgusting holiday tradition took place at Coney Island yesterday where “competitive eater” Joey Chestnut won for the eighth consecutive year by downing 61 Nathan’s hot dogs in ten minutes.

The Brooklyn gay man who was brutally beaten by a gang of Hasidic thugs has filed a civil lawsuit against his attackers. Taj Patterson, 22, suffered a fractured eye socket, torn retina and multiple contusions from the Dec. 1 beatdown in Williamsburg by as many as a dozen ultra-Orthodox vigilantes who were looking for a suspect who had vandalized cars …

Stereogum reviews the clip: For years now, power-poppers OK Go have been more famous for their ability to put together intricately choreographed homespun viral videos than for their music. Their clip for the new single “The Writing’s On The Wall” might be the band’s most ambitious yet. It sends them through a series of optical illusions in a Brooklyn warehouse, …

NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio was the grand marshal of yesterday’s Brooklyn Pride parade, where he and his wife declared that they will never participate in events that exclude LGBT New Yorkers. “When it comes to the question of parades, you will see Chirlane at this parade or me at this parade, but you will not see us at a …

Folsom Street East director and popular DJ Dave Hughes sported his JMG shirt at yesterday’s Mister Sunday party in Brooklyn. After a one year absence, Folsom East returns on June 22nd. It was Dave who suggested using the quote that is on the back of all the JMG shirt styles.

Via the New York Times: The language of the plans recently approved by the New York City Buildings Department seems unambiguous: A “sign structure to be demolished by hand,” reads the schematic diagram. “Carry debris across roof and dump into chute.” On the diagram is the name of the project: “Full Demolition of Kentile Sign at 111 9th St. Brooklyn, …