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The Brooklyn Paper · Brooklyn, NY

‘Very traumatizing’: Flatbush residents, business owners shook by devastating building collapse

James Williams saw the moment the three-story apartment building at 1321 Flatbush Ave. collapsed late Wednesday afternoon, an experience he said was "very traumatizing." "They kept banging and banging and banging and banging, and it was banging too much and hitting the wrong thing. And when they hit the the foundation of the structure down there, that's when some of the bricks started coming off of that building," Williams, 60, said of construction work taking place at a lot adjacent to the collapsed building, 2625 Bedford Ave, in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood. "After some of the bricks started coming off the building, no more than two minutes later, I watched the whole building collapse," he added. [caption id="attachment_137881268" align="alignnone" width="1200"] James Williams, 60, who says he witnessed the building collapse at 1321 Flatbush Ave. on Wednesday Nov. 11 from the deli across the street. Thursday, Nov.

Long Island Press · Brooklyn, NY

Plainview resident celebrates 90 with members of local government

Oyster Bay Town Councilman Andrew Monteleone joined New York State Sen. Steve Rhoads in celebrating the 90th birthday of Plainview resident Marsha Elowsky. Elowsky was born Nov. 2, 1936, in Brooklyn, where she grew up and became an educator with the New York City Department of Education. She married her late husband, Joseph Elowsky, in 1956. The couple settled in Plainview in 1963 and raised four daughters. Elowsky has remained active in the Plainview community through charitable efforts focused on improving the lives of children and senior citizens. She operated a preschool out of her home for 25 years and founded Camp Apollo, a nonprofit summer camp, in 1970. She continues her work with seniors through Super Seniors, a biweekly therapy group. Elowsky is now a grandmother of seven and great-grandmother of three.

QNS · Brooklyn, NY

Belle Harbor street corner to be co-named ‘FDNY Lt. Patrick D. Brady Way’ after his line-of-duty death

The memory of FDNY Lt. Patrick Brady will be commemorated after Council Member Joann Ariola, at his family’s request, submitted legislation to co-name the corner of Beach 129th Street and Newport Avenue in Belle Harbor in his honor. Ariola made the announcement Tuesday, Nov. 10, two days after the one-year anniversary of his line-of-duty death while battling a fire on the rooftop of a Kings Highway building in Brooklyn. Lt. Brady, of Ladder 120, suffered a medical episode and went into cardiac arrest on Nov. 8, 2025. EMS rushed him to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where he died. Brady was 42. [caption id="attachment_629122" align="alignnone" width="1600"] Thousands of firefighters joined the Brady family at St. Francis de Sales Church in Belle Harbor to pay their final respects to Brady, who suffered a fatal cardiac event while working to put out a fire on the roof of a building on Kings Highway in Brownsville on Nov. 8, 2025. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell[/caption] "Lt.

The Brooklyn Paper · Brooklyn, NY

BROOKLYN BUILDING COLLAPSE: Two dead, at least 19 injured as apartment house crumbles, rescue operations ongoing

Two people are dead, and at least 19 others were injured after a building collapsed in Brooklyn on Wednesday afternoon. Firefighters responded to a complete building collapse near the corner of Flatbush and Bedford Avenues in Flatbush shortly after 4 p.m. on Nov. 11, where several construction workers were trapped beneath the debris. EMS units pronounced one person dead at the scene; Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Thursday evening that a second person had died from their injuries. Officials said two others were in critical condition, and a search for others trapped remains ongoing. "The Department of Buildings and our law enforcement partners will be leading an investigation into what caused this building to collapse," Mamdani told reporters at a Wednesday evening press conference steps away from the ongoing rescue operation.

The Brooklyn Paper · Brooklyn, NY

Brooklyn Public Library to build new Sheepshead Bay branch, consolidate 2 struggling locations

A new library is coming to Sheepshead Bay to replace two aging, disused local branches as part of a large-scale library revival in Brooklyn. Set to open at 2685 Coney Island Ave. in 2030, the new facility will take the place of the existing Sheepshead Bay and Homecrest libraries, the Brooklyn Public Library announced Tuesday. The two branches, located less than a mile apart, are fixtures of their respective communities. The Sheepshead Bay Library first opened in 1903 after local residents advocated for a new branch and raised $200 — equivalent to more than $6,000 today — as a down payment. It moved to its current location in 1963, the same year the Homecrest Library opened on Coney Island Avenue. Both branches serve large immigrant populations and host plenty of community programming. But their collections are among the least-leased in the borough, and the buildings are in poor shape.

The Brooklyn Paper · Brooklyn, NY

A death in the dark: After murder of Brooklyn runner, community calls for action

Katie Suarez, a 28-year-old Brooklyn resident, loved running along the Shore Parkway Greenway near the TD Bank branch where she worked. The area, with its waterfront path and striking views of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, attracts pedestrians and runners alike. On Oct. 30, it became the site of her final run. According to her Strava account, a fitness-tracking app that records running routes, pace and distance, Suarez ran at a pace of about 11:30 minutes per mile for just 1 minute and 7 seconds that evening. She covered 0.09 miles before the app's map showed her briefly turning back in the direction from which she had come. Her body was found farther along the path, beyond the portion of her run recorded by the app. Suarez was stabbed to death before she could finish what she had logged as her “evening run,” tracked through her Apple Watch.

Out · Brooklyn, NY

They worried knitting would make them less masculine. Then these New Yorkers met the guys

This story originally appeared on The Advocate. Avi Molder worked quickly through the stitches of a shirt at Cleo’s Yarn Shop in Brooklyn. He first learned to knit through his mother, and honed his skills more fully as an adult. At the shop’s monthly men’s night, Molder found a comfortable place to practice — and spend time with the boys. “I definitely wouldn’t hang out with an exclusive group of men and not knit,” Molder, a New York City resident who works in publishing, told The Advocate. Contemporary knitting is borne from household labor historically done by women, and hobbyists say the craft is often still viewed as intrinsically feminine. But across the country, groups of men gather regularly at yarn shops, community centers, and overnight retreats just to knit together. By carving out these spaces, men are using the craft to forge bonds around their masculinity; and, in equal measure, to deconstruct it.