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Good afternoon! Ah, the bliss of parking your car and knowing you won’t have to move it for a while, thanks to suspended alternate-side parking. The low-grade anxiety over the following days as you pass other parked cars encased in tombs of snow and ice. The relief of deciding not to worry about it. The quiet sense of security after weeks go by and all thought of parking slips easily from your mind.
New York City car owners have been through it all during the nearly month-long cold snap, but that time is coming to an end. Alternate side parking returns today, meaning hundreds of thousands of drivers will have to finally move their splattered and crusted cars.
It’s a tentative but welcome sign that spring may just be around the corner. A week straight of 40℉ temperatures will help melt the final, stubborn bases of compacted snow that propped up the city’s many dirty street mountains. Where ice and salt once covered the sidewalks, snowmelt now runs in black rivers into the gutters.
Oh — this just in, more snowfall is expected on Sunday and Monday, with predictions suggesting a couple more inches by early next week. I guess our dreams of spring will have to wait.
Nurses at the Brooklyn Hospital Center said the hospital system has refused to pay nurses’ benefits since October, resulting in their health care benefits being cut off Jan. 31.
Brooklyn Heights will fill every empty tree bed with a new tree this spring.
The Live Nation antitrust case heads to trial after a federal judge rejected the company’s bid to dismiss claims brought by Attorney General Letitia James.
Edward R. Murrow High School in Midwood became the first public school in New York City to heat its entire campus with repurposed cooking oil biofuel, replacing traditional fossil fuels with a lower-emission alternative.
Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-9) will hold a community listening session on Thursday, Feb. 19, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Branch, inviting residents to raise local concerns.
Sports news all over Brooklyn:
Michael Porter Jr. is all in for Brooklyn — even if he had to wait out this month’s NBA trade deadline to be sure the Nets’ brain trust felt the same way.
A scheduled fraud trial in Brooklyn federal court for two Cleveland Guardians pitchers accused of colluding with sports bettors to rig bets and betray “America’s pastime” will likely be postponed, a judge said.
Brooklyn FC signed experienced midfielder Jaden Servania ahead of its inaugural 2026 USL Championship season.
Doug Moe, the Brooklyn native who became one of the NBA’s most distinctive coaching figures, died Tuesday, Feb. 17, at 87.
Looking for an event to celebrate the Lunar New Year? Bklyn Live has you covered.
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BUCHAREST — ‘Today, I’d like my milk warm’: A cat sits on a chair outside a cafe after a blizzard in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026.
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For ‘Bernie in Burlington,’ Dan Chiasson returns to Brooklyn
Poet and critic Dan Chiasson, author of the new book “Bernie for Burlington.” Photo: Lisa Abitbol
Tongiht, poet and critic Dan Chiasson will launch his new book, “Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician,” at Pioneer Works in Red Hook.
In “Bernie for Burlington,” Chiasson details Sanders’ rise from his upbringing in Midwood to become the four-time mayor of Burlington and one of the country’s most prominent progressive political leaders.
In the book, Chiasson explores how growing up in Brooklyn — both buffeted by his family’s crushing financial anxieties and supported by the public services of a New Deal-era city — shaped Sanders’ politics for the rest of his career.
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Royal mess: The British Royal family’s former Prince Andrew, now Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, was arrested on Thursday morning at his home at the royal Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, England, on allegations that he may have shared confidential information with notorious child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during the former prince’s tenure as an official British trade representative. This is the latest development for Andrew, who was already stripped of his title due to Epstein connections. Read on to learn more.
Happy Birthday to Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Smokey Robinson!
On This Day in 1951, the Eagle reported: “Big-shot gamblers reportedly involved in a nationwide college basketball fixing ring took cover today as New York’s latest hoop bribery scandal, which erupted with the arrest of four players, a former star and an ex-convict, threatened to snowball into gigantic proportions.”
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