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After an often-thorny two-hour meeting with the State Liquor Authority on Thursday, Pacha New York received its temporar...
05/29/2026

After an often-thorny two-hour meeting with the State Liquor Authority on Thursday, Pacha New York received its temporary liquor license — with conditions — setting the stage for its June 20 opening and apparently sending Avant Gardner into oblivion.

For two hours at the May 29 meeting, Kabir Mulchandani, CEO of Pacha parent company FIVE Holdings and his lawyer, Max Bookman, worked to convince the SLA that the venue will not carry on the sins of its predecessor, the Brooklyn Mirage.

By the time Avant Gardner went bankrupt last year, it had seen three drug overdose deaths, dozens of SLA violations and several lawsuits. A total of 37 people wrote letters to the SLA about Pacha’s application, said chair Lily Fan, detailing a laundry list of concerns.

“Obviously … all of this has to do with the prior establishment,” Fan said. “There is generally a public safety concern here.”

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📸: Courtesy of Pacha New York
✍️: Kirstyn Brendlen

A manhunt is underway for two groups of suspects involved in a reckless shooting that damaged an MTA bus in East New Yor...
05/29/2026

A manhunt is underway for two groups of suspects involved in a reckless shooting that damaged an MTA bus in East New York.

After an often-thorny two-hour meeting with the State Liquor Authority on Thursday, Pacha New York received its temporar...
05/29/2026

After an often-thorny two-hour meeting with the State Liquor Authority on Thursday, Pacha New York received its temporary liquor license — with conditions — setting the stage for its June 20 opening and apparently sending Avant Gardner into oblivion.

For 50 years, New Yorkers have flocked to Greenmarkets for farm-fresh strawberries, freshly baked bread and seasonal pro...
05/29/2026

For 50 years, New Yorkers have flocked to Greenmarkets for farm-fresh strawberries, freshly baked bread and seasonal produce hauled in from across the Northeast. But according to the team behind GrowNYC’s iconic markets, the experience has always been about more than groceries.

After a wisdom tooth procedure, Dom Gervasi went straight to Red Hook so an Australian couple could experience their thi...
05/29/2026

After a wisdom tooth procedure, Dom Gervasi went straight to Red Hook so an Australian couple could experience their third Made in Brooklyn Tour before flying back to Sydney.

Gervasi, 57, is the founder of Made in Brooklyn Tours. After graduating from Baruch College, the Bensonhurst native spent 16 years working at a hardware production company specializing in data and voice communications and network security. During the recession in 2009, Gervasi was laid off and forced to make a career change.

While traveling through Greece and Italy, he found inspiration in the local businesses and the people who ran them. When he returned home, he wanted to discover what locals were making in Brooklyn.

The cloistered nuns moved out of the Carmelite monastery on the edge of Highland Park in Cypress Hills just over three y...
05/28/2026

The cloistered nuns moved out of the Carmelite monastery on the edge of Highland Park in Cypress Hills just over three years ago. Now a developer with plans of rezoning the site to build a nine-story, 345-unit apartment complex on the church-owned site appears to be moving in, and some locals are already organizing against their new neighbor.

New York State Nurses Association nurses held a candlelight vigil outside NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospit...
05/28/2026

New York State Nurses Association nurses held a candlelight vigil outside NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in Park Slope on May 26, calling attention to the rise in workplace violence and demanding that hospital management negotiate a contract that protects patient and nurse safety.

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The Park Slope Food Co-op (PSFC), one of the nation’s largest member-owned food cooperatives, voted Tuesday to boycott I...
05/28/2026

The Park Slope Food Co-op (PSFC), one of the nation’s largest member-owned food cooperatives, voted Tuesday to boycott Israeli products following a closely watched membership meeting that drew thousands of participants. The vote capped years of internal debate over politics, governance and the role of consumer boycotts.

At a General Co-op Meeting on May 26, Co-op members overwhelmingly voted in favor of a boycott of Israeli products, echoing the demands of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, a pro-Palestinian campaign that calls for economic pressure on Israel.

The debate over whether to remove Israeli products from the shelves of one of the country’s largest food co-operatives has been brewing since 2009, but intensified with the ongoing war in Gaza — launched in the wake of terrorist group Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

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At 6 a.m., while much of Brooklyn is still waking up, Caitlyn Ecock is already inside the cardiac procedures unit at NYU...
05/28/2026

At 6 a.m., while much of Brooklyn is still waking up, Caitlyn Ecock is already inside the cardiac procedures unit at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, checking equipment, reviewing safety procedures and preparing patients for the day ahead.

For Ecock, nursing was never part of some grand childhood plan, but rather a slow revelation through a combination of science, caregiving and experience.

After five years, three mayors, dozens of meetings and one corruption scandal, the city is breaking ground on the long-p...
05/27/2026

After five years, three mayors, dozens of meetings and one corruption scandal, the city is breaking ground on the long-planned full redesign of the northern part of McGuinness Boulevard.

Starting this week, the Department of Transportation will extend the design already in place on the boulevard south of Calyer Street, taking away one lane of vehicle traffic in each direction and adding parking-protected bike lanes along both curbs, up to Freeman Street.

The work is expected to take two or three months, DOT commissioner Mike Flynn said on May 27. When it’s finished, the infamously dangerous boulevard will have parking protected bike lanes all the way from the Pulaski Bridge to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.

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📸&✍️: Kirstyn Brendlen

After five years, three mayors, dozens of meetings and one corruption scandal, the city is breaking ground on the long-p...
05/27/2026

After five years, three mayors, dozens of meetings and one corruption scandal, the city is breaking ground on the long-planned full redesign of the northern part of McGuinness Boulevard.

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