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(Neil deMause) This week, Gothamist is running excerpts from The Brooklyn Wars, a new book from journalist Neil deMause about the social, economic, and political forces that have radically reshaped Brooklyn over the past four decades. This five-part series, the Bushwick Wars, traces the story of Bushwick from the 1970s to the present…
Shattered glass, smoke and passengers in shock. Footage from directly after the train derailment this morning. (Published 56 minutes ago) endclickprintinclude startclickprintinclude What to Know A Long Island Rail Road train derailed at track 6 at Brooklyn’s Atlantic Terminal at the height of Wednesday’s morning rush 103 people were hurt, though fire officials said their…
Photo: Vice/HBO It’s a fairly paralyzing time to be a guilty white American liberal. With Donald Trump elected on the basis of one of the race-baitiest presidential campaigns in modern American history, Republicans firmly in power, and mounting evidence that progress toward racial equality has been stalled out for years if not decades, it feels…
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is asking riders of the L subway how they would like their nightmare: nasty, brutish and shortish, or somewhat less painful but twice as long. Those were the choices offered Thursday night at a community meeting in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Another meeting is scheduled in Manhattan this Thursday. The M.T.A. says the…
The county of Kings is playing an outsized role in New York State’s presidential primary race — particularly among Democrats. As the birthplace of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Brooklyn figures into nearly every one of his stump speeches. It’s also where former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has based her national campaign headquarters. Yet, even…
Mayor Bill de Blasio has ordered the New York City Board of Elections to investigate why more than 63,000 registered Democrats were dropped from the voting rolls since last fall. The request comes the same day a WNYC analysis revealed the largest decline in active registered Democrats statewide was in Brooklyn. But new data provided by…
Via Yelp Williamsburg, the Meatpacking District of Brooklyn, now has its very own club-related sexual harassment lawsuit—a handful of employees at nightclub Verboten on North 11th Street are suing their employers, alleging that owner Jen Schiffer, her husband, and her boyfriend (yep) openly discussed their sex lives, barraged employees with sexual advances and, in…
A rendering of the streetcar in action (Mayor’s Office) Mayor de Blasio’s $2.5 billion Brooklyn-Queens streetcar isn’t the worst transportation project in New York City (we have a $4 billion subway station), but it may be the most transparently unfair. As an allocation of municipal resources, it would have made perfect fodder for de Blasio’s…
NEW YORK New York City will issue bonds via the creation of a non-profit agency to fund a $2.5 billion light rail system between the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, officials from the mayor’s office said in a statement on Tuesday. Officials said that when the 16-mile system is “fully built-out, it could serve…
Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg. Photo by Mary Hautman It’s no secret that Williamsburg’s storefront rents are some of the priciest in the borough, but a new report now reveals they are also some of the priciest in the country. The ever-changing commercial strip of Bedford Avenue is, along with Fulton Mall and Court Street in…