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Brooklyn movie theater workers ‘victimized by Barbenheimer’ vote to unionize

Brooklyn movie theater workers who say they were “victimized by Babenheimer” voted to unionize after an “aggressive union-busting campaign” from management. Employees at Nighthawk Cinema in Prospect Park say they’re tired of dangerous working conditions, unfair treatment, low pay and overwork at the popular theater. The union said in a statement last month that their […]

Twin teen sisters stabbed outside Brooklyn bodega after rejecting man

Two teenage twin sisters were stabbed in New York City early Sunday morning. One of the sisters died from the stab wounds. Witnesses said the teens were stabbed after the sisters refused the man’s advances. Samia Spain and her twin sister Sania were inside a warehouse in Brooklyn with a group of friends and relatives […]

Brooklyn apartment fire leaves two dead, dozens displaced

Two men were killed in a fire at a Brooklyn apartment Sunday night, authorities said. Around 6:45 p.m., 60 firefighters and paramedics were rushed to the scene after flames broke out in part of the four-story building at 159 Bay 29th Street, the FDNY said. The fire was extinguished in about an hour by people […]

Brooklyn bar Spuyten Duyvil to close on April 21

A Brooklyn bar credited with introducing European craft beer to the once-industrial Williamsburg neighborhood in 2003 is now locked out of the expensive area. Spuiten Duyville, which has been serving customers at Metropolitan Avenue and Havemeyer Street for more than 20 years, will close its doors for the last time on April 21, co-owner Joe […]

Two women, 19, stabbed, one fatally, overnight in Brooklyn

Two 19-year-old women were stabbed, one of them dead, outside a Brooklyn mall early Sunday morning. Police responded to a 911 call about an assault around 2:20 a.m. in front of the Slope Natural Plus bodega in Park Slope at 77 4th Avenue. Police said one of the teens had a stab wound to the […]

‘Severe mental health’ problems to blame for Brooklyn subway shooting

Mayor Eric Adams on Friday blamed the shocking rush-hour shooting on a Brooklyn subway car on an instigator with “severe mental health issues,” saying police were mentally ill. He pushed for legislation that would allow physically unstable people to be housed in institutions. Mr Adams was filmed scuffling with another man on an A train […]

Man critically wounded after being shot on Brooklyn subway train 

A 36-year-old man was shot in the head and in critical condition after a heated argument on a crowded subway train approaching a station in Brooklyn, New York, Thursday night, police said at a news conference. The shooting occurred around 4:45 p.m. after a 32-year-old man boarded a train at Nostrand Avenue Station, New York […]