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Not Your Grandparents’ Mahjong Table
New York Times· 12 hours agoOn a drizzly Saturday afternoon, hundreds of mahjong enthusiasts gathered in Downtown Brooklyn to play the 19th-century Chinese game of strategy and luck...
Joel Schwartz Files Resi Plans in Downtown Brooklyn
The Real Deal· 5 days agoThe 2024 Olympic Games in Paris are weeks away, but Brooklyn landlord Joel Schwartz is going for gold in Downtown Brooklyn. Schwartz filed plans for a...
Slain NYPD officer gets proper headstone 100 years after his death
ABC7 New York· 12 hours agoA New York City police officer is being honored and remembered a century after he was killed while...
FDNY Firefighters Hurt at Staten Island Blaze Sue City over Staffing
Firehouse Magazine· 1 day agoFour firefighters who nearly perished while battling a windswept inferno on Staten Island last year...
The Man Who Made Roulette Into New York’s Music Lab
New York Times· 3 days agoVisitors had to pass through a kitchen: a reminder that the loft was also the home of Jim Staley, the trombonist and composer who was a founder of...
Staten Island firefighters sue NYC after they say department policy almost cost them their lives
ABC7 New York· 18 hours agoSeveral firefighters announced a lawsuit against New York City on Monday after they say they were...
Slain NYPD detective who probed Mafia to get ‘well overdue’ headstone — 100 years after his death
NY Post metro via Yahoo News· 3 days agoDet. Grottano was off-duty the night of May 19, 1924, when a robber ran past him with uniformed cop...
New York City Nabs Stretch of Brooklyn Coastline to Redevelop
Bloomberg· 7 days agoThe city will take control of 120 acres from Brooklyn Bridge Park to Red Hook to develop a...
Downtown Brooklyn office tower faces exodus of tenants
Crain's New York Business· 7 days agoNow 111 Livingston faces the loss of its biggest tenant, the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, which leases 30% of the space. “The largest tenant…is scheduled to ...
Developer Joel Schwartz eyes Downtown Brooklyn for new 117-unit project
Crain's New York Business· 6 days agoTo move forward, Schwartz wants the city to rezone the weedy site, which currently is part of a district that allows only low-slung residential buildings, to allow for a taller structure that ...
