The New York Times – By John Leland | Published July 29, 2025
From the moment the news broke of a mass shooting on Park Avenue on Monday, misinformation careened through social media, declaring the massacre an act of Islamic terrorism or blaming Zohran Mamdani, who is seeking to become the city’s first Muslim mayor.
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BrooklynPaper – By Kirstyn Brendlen | Published July 14, 2025
The city will stop operations at a controversial concrete recycling facility in the Columbia Waterfront District next month and close the plant altogether by the end of the year, Mayor Eric Adams announced on Friday.
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Adi Magazine – By Rouhi Choudhry and Herikita | Published July 10, 2025
[A narrative essay exploring the writer finding community post the 2016 presidential election]
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“Right before 2016, I felt attached to the open and public space conversation—trying to help shape this plaza that sits across from the mosque.
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BrooklynEagle – By Brooklyn Eagle Staff | Published July 7, 2025
BOROUGHWIDE — TWO BROOKLYN CITY COUNCILMEMBERS HAVE TEAMED UP ON A SOLUTION TO THE UPCOMING EXPIRATION OF MICROSOFT WINDOWS 10 support and the e-waste that is expected to result from it.
Councilmembers Shahana Hanif (D-39) and Jennifer Gutiérrez (D-34) on Monday, July 7, are sponsoring the Brooklyn Laptop Fix-a-thon to reduce e-waste and support local literacy programs.
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BrooklynPaper – By Gabriele Holtermann | Published July 2, 2025
The City Council on June 30 passed three pieces of legislation aimed at protecting immigrants in the face of federal policies that have left many fearful and anxious.
Two of those measures — a resolution and a bill — were introduced by Brooklyn politicians Sandy Nurse and Shahana Hanif, respectively.
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Queens Post – By Shane O’Brien | Published July 2, 2025
The New York City Council has passed legislation introduced by Queens Council Member Julie Won and Brooklyn Council Member Shahana Hanif, aiming to combat immigration legal services fraud, whereby predatory actors exploit the fears of immigrant communities by offering false promises of legal services.
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Gothamist – By David Brand | Published Jun 3, 2025 | Modified Jun 3, 2025
Brooklyn community leaders and elected officials say the state’s economic development arm had no right to waive millions in monthly penalties over a developer’s failure to complete affordable housing at Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards complex, and they say they may sue to force the state’s hand.
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New York Post – By Nicole Rosenthal | May 15, 2025
These Brooklyn musicians are playing to deaf ears.
Tenants at a band rehearsal space near Brooklyn’s toxic Gowanus Canal are taking matters into their own hands and pooling funds to hire a private company to test for cancer-causing vapors inside the building after the landlord refused to let state inspectors inside.
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle – By Raanan Geberer | April 25, 2025
BOERUM HILL — Plans to transform a city-owned parking lot in Boerum Hill into a new rent-stabilized senior housing development were announced Thursday by the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
The dilapidated lot on Third Avenue, between Bergen and Wyckoff Streets, will be converted into approximately 68 units of affordable senior housing.
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AMNY – By Adam Daly | April 24, 2025
The City Council on Thursday approved a broad legislative package aimed at strengthening civil rights protections and healthcare access for transgender, gender non-conforming, non-binary, and intersex (TGNCNBI) individuals, marking one of the most comprehensive local efforts in the nation to safeguard gender-diverse communities.
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