It's Wednesday in New York City, where it's not uncommon for the Brooklyn Children's Museum to close its doors to children.
On 12 occasions between May and August of this year, the world's oldest children's museum was booked for private events: Often adults-only rooftop dance parties with names like "Kocaine All White Renaissance" and "Rum and Music."
The nonprofit museum says the events bring in crucial revenue. But neighbors on the surrounding residential blocks in Crown Heights say the parties are loud enough to rattle windows and disturb ... kids.
"Some people joke that it's an event space masquerading as a children's museum, rather than the other way around," said Taofeek Owoade, a dad who lives across the street.
New York City sanitation officials plan to jack up fines on the owners of dirty vacant lots and abandoned construction sites in an effort to cut down on the trashy eyesores.
A 31-year-old man has been indicted on murder charges after he allegedly killed and then robbed a man inside a South Bronx bodega back in August.
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill this week vetoed two bills meant to help cash-strapped Jersey City with its revenue issues.
Although most of New York City has moved on from the weekend's nor’easter, one family in Prospect Lefferts Gardens is still displaced from their home after the facade of an adjacent six-story apartment building fell onto their property Saturday.
Many of the fruits and vegetables New Yorkers eat are first stored in refrigerated trailers in the Bronx that spew diesel fumes into the poorest neighborhood in the five boroughs. A deal to clean up the operation has fallen through.
Richard O’Brien, 41, was walking to work around 6:30 a.m. on Sept. 23 when he was knocked to the ground by a 32-year-old man heading north on a pedal bike, according to the NYPD. O'Brien's family said he sustained a devastating brain injury and died in the hospital on Sept. 27.
On Tuesday, Wilkins was named one of the 20 scholars and artists to receive an $800,000 fellowship grant from the MacArthur Foundation, more commonly known as a “genius grant.” At 29 years old, he is the youngest recipient this year.
A new land-use approval process could make it easier for developers to build larger apartment complexes in one of the city’s wealthiest, most densely populated neighborhoods.
