It was quite the year for fun and creativity at the Brooklyn Heights Association's 2025 Halloween Parade on Sunday.

BOERUM HILL — AT JUST 8 YEARS OLD, Linus Piepmeyer has become Boerum Hill’s youngest entrepreneur, running a gumball-style vending machine outside his family’s brownstone that dispenses handmade New ...

EAST FLATBUSH — A New York City firefighter died Saturday after suffering a medical episode while battling a five-alarm fire at a Brooklyn apartment building, authorities said. Patrick D. Brady, 42, ...

COBBLE HILL — VINCENZO “VINNIE” PAMPILLONIA, founder of the iconic Vinnie’s Italian Art Ironworks in Cobble Hill, passed away on Oct. 7. He was 89. Born in Villabate, Sicily, Pampillonia set sail for ...

GREENPOINT — THE ANNUAL Halloween Dog Parade and Costume Contest, presented by McGolrick Dogs, will take place in Greenpoint’s dog-friendly Monsignor McGolrick Park on Saturday, Oct. 25. Meet up at ...

GREENPOINT — A NON-HAREDI SYNAGOGUE in Brooklyn’s northernmost, traditionally Polish neighborhood has doubled its membership to more than 100 families, reports The Times of Israel. Greenpoint is just ...

Marea Wachsman, a past president of the Brooklyn Women’s Bar Association and the immediate past president of the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York, was named the 2025 recipient of the ...

CROWN HEIGHTS — THIS THURSDAY, OCT. 23, BROOKLYN CHILDREN’S MUSEUM (BCM) IS OFFERING AN AFTERNOON OF HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS demonstrating how to make a big difference for planet earth. The BCM ...