Brooklyn’s Woodhull Hospital remains closed after a power outage caused by rain on Friday forced the evacuation of more than 100 patients over the weekend. The hospitalized people were transferred to other health centers and hospitals in the city. Critical patients were transferred on Friday night and around 120 other patients on Saturday. The Con … Read more
The city’s new composting program rolls out today throughout Brooklyn Borough. Residents can now place their organic waste curbside the same day they recycle it. Waste such as leaves, food scraps and food-soiled paper should be placed inside a brown compost bin. The city started the initiative in Queens earlier this year. It will expand … Read more
The streets of a section of Brooklyn are filled with joy this afternoon with one of the largest and oldest street festivals in the city. This is the forty-eighth annual edition of the “Atlantic Antic,” which extends along ten blocks of Atlantic Avenue. More than 500 stalls with local vendors will offer food, clothing, crafts … Read more
Police are seeking to find the whereabouts of the person responsible for a shooting that claimed the life of one man and left two others injured in Brooklyn. It happened shortly after 5 p.m. on Saturday near the Sumner Houses public housing complex in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The man was shot in the head and taken to … Read more
After the dangerous flooding due to the intense rain on Friday, which hit our city, generating delays in the subway and the suspension of some lines, the transportation system operated regularly this Saturday. Ramón Rosario, resident of the sector says: “I had to stay home all day yesterday. Today, it is possible.” From the Union … Read more
After shaking hands with several members of the National Guard, Governor Katy Hochul thanked them and made an important announcement: “The National Guard will deploy 150 additional uniformed personnel, who will join the mission of helping immigrants seeking asylum, in total 2,200 troops, 250 of them will be specifically in charge of handling each case,” … Read more
We have sent 15,800 migrants on buses from Texas to New York, said Texas Governor Greg Abbott during his visit to the city. However, the more than 100,000 immigrants have been sent, according to him, by the administration of President Joe Biden. Almost 3 million immigrants have arrived at the border since April 2022. Since … Read more
The bullet holes in windows, cans and other places of two MTA buses that were traveling in broad daylight are images that cause fear. Jorge Espinoza works on 125th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, just steps from the shooting that authorities say occurred on Wednesday around three in the afternoon. “Yes, yes, I am afraid, of … Read more
Scientists have discovered that parts of the New York City metropolitan area are sinking due to both human and natural factors, according to a recent study. The research, conducted by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Rutgers University, used a remote sensing technique called interferometric synthetic aperture radar to analyze vertical ground motion in … Read more
Authorities seized more than 40 pounds of fentanyl from an apartment in the Bronx, a few blocks from the child care center where this substance was also found and where the death of a one-year-old child due to contact with the drug was reported. According to police, the suspect Juan Daniel Herrera Vargas was arrested … Read more