Brooklyn

New York must heed the warning signs before we ask, 'How did this happen?' - opinion

With Netanyahu’s planned attendance at the 81st UN General Assembly, this event might become one of the largest internationally televised anti-Israel demonstrations ever staged on US soil.

AN AI-generated political cartoon depicting New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani at court with anti-Israel protesters in the background alongside the US Founding Fathers.
An ambulance in traffic, as the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary on Independence Day in New York City, US, July 4, 2026

At least eight shot, including four children, during New York Fourth of July celebrations

Judah Gribetz, center, huddled with Gov. Hugh L. Carey, left, and Mayor Abraham D. Beame, right, during a meeting of New York’s Emergency Financial Control Board in 1977.

Judah Gribetz, lawyer and counsel behind landmark Holocaust restitution plan, dies at 97

New York Police Department officers in the Bronx borough of New York City, US, May 16, 2023.

Man known to police, security enters Brooklyn Chabad with knife, bat is removed by bystander


New Yorkers march in solidarity with Israeli protesters

The march over the Brooklyn Bridge was part of a global solidarity movement that has flourished in the city with the most Israelis outside of Israel.

 People visit the Brooklyn Bridge during hot weather in New York City, US, July 13, 2023.

Former head of Jewish security patrol in Brooklyn pleads guilty to sex crime involving a teenager

The guilty plea comes more than five years after Daskal was first arrested and charged with sex crimes related to the alleged abuse of a girl.

 A handcuffed suspect waits at the magistrates court.

ADL offering $50,000 reward for tips on 1994 NYC murder

Ari Halberstam, 16, was murdered on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1994 by Rashid Baz, who also fired upon 14 other Jewish teens in a van.

Participants in a Jewish solidarity march across New York City's Brooklyn Bridge, Jan. 5, 2020. The march in the city was held in response to a recent rise in anti-Semitic crimes in the New York metropolitan area. (Jeenah Moon/Getty Images)

Jewish journalist sues bar for refusing to serve him

Conservative journalist Elad Eliahu, 29, was reportedly on a first date last month in Brooklyn when a bartender allegedly told him to leave while calling him a "Zionist fascist."

Two pints of beer

Six NYC Council members reject establishment of 'End Jew Hatred Day'

Among those on the 51-member council who did not support the measure was Shahana Hanif, a representative of the heavily Jewish Brooklyn neighborhoods of Borough Park and Park Slope. 

End Jew Hatred Protest in NYC, held in front of the public library. (End Jew Hatred)

A new dance club in Williamsburg is bringing Tel Aviv party culture to Brooklyn

Some of the biggest night club venues in Brooklyn can hold thousands of people. Silo, by contrast, holds only 500, which carries a more intimate feel.

Nightclub (Illustrative)

Ellen Lapidus Stern: The aliyah story of the well-known Israeli artist

Lapidus Stern is well known in Israel and internationally for her colorful and imaginative oil paintings. Many of them are on permanent exhibition, others in private collections.

 WITH ‘HADAR,’ a five-meter-high oil on canvas, now on display at the Jerusalem Municipality.

Man hit by truck driver in Brooklyn rampage dies of head injury

62-year-old Weng Sor of Las Vegas has been accused of deliberately plowing into pedestrians and bike riders in multiple locations in Monday's rampage through two Brooklyn neighborhoods.

 A New York Police Department vehicle blocks a U-Haul rental vehicle, where according to media reports, a man struck multiple people and the NYPD took the driver into custody, near the Battery tunnel in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, US, February 13, 2023.

Kyrie Irving traded to Dallas Mavericks after antisemitism controversy

The Dallas Mavericks' Jewish owner Mark Cuban spoke out on Irving's antisemitism scandal last year.

Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving (11) at Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York, Oct 29, 2022

Rabbi went down with torpedoed warship in 1943. His cousin ensures story isn't forgotten

The sinking of the Dorchester is considered one of the country’s worst World War II-era sea disasters: Of the 902 men on board, only 203 survived.

S.S. Dorchester  and Four Chaplains stamp