Happy Thursday in New York City, where this writer feels compelled to address yesterday’s intro.
First, the weather. We mentioned yesterday that snowfall this weekend was projected to reach up to six inches. As of this morning, there’s over a 50% chance that snowfall will double that prediction, totalling 12 inches or more. Experts call it a potentially ‘legendary’ storm. We’re now officially in the stock-up-on-eggs-and-toilet-paper zone.
Then, there was the last line of the intro: “Looks like it’s going to stay as cold as the Knicks’ jump shooting for at least another week.”
At the time, the team was riding a 2-9 losing streak with no end in sight. Not only did the Knicks follow the publishing of that statement with a historic 120-66 thumping of the Brooklyn Nets — the widest margin of victory in the franchise’s 80-year history — but they did so by shooting 57.5% from the field and 50% (!) from the three-point line. For those who don’t follow basketball, 50% is sort of to three-point percentages what 12 inches is to average snowfall.
Longtime readers of this newsletter may know that despite my Brooklyn upbringing, I am a Philadelphia sports fan. The Sixers take on the Knicks this Saturday at 3:00 p.m. Let me use my powers of shortsight for good this time, and state plainly that the Knicks will definitely beat the Sixers this weekend.
Now, we let the jinx do its work.
—Jesse Goodman
A judge ordered New York State to redraw the borders of Congressional District 11, represented by Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, which includes Staten Island, Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst.
Three bills introduced to the State Assembly would make bus rides free for senior citizens, high school students and college students.
Two days in a row, residents of Mapleton found dozens of swastikas painted across the playground at Gravesend Park. The NYPD is investigating the incidents as a hate crime.
A four-alarm, wind-driven fire tore through a large warehouse on the Red Hook piers on Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 21, burning eight to 10 bays before FDNY crews put it out. No injuries were reported.
A new comedy club, Greenpoint Comedy Club, opens in northern Brooklyn at 66 Greenpoint Ave. this spring.
New York City’s annual Restaurant Week kicked off on Tuesday and runs to Feb. 12. More than 850 restaurants are set to participate, 58 of them in Brooklyn.
Your fun fact of the day: Wordle, the iconic pandemic-era word game now owned by the New York Times, was created by Brooklyn software engineer Josh Wardle!
Our World In Photos
Photo: Robert F. Bukaty/AP
MAINE — Icy roads and streets make a slippery slope for protestors all across the Northeast United States: Rosie Grutze protests the presence of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, in Portland, Maine.
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MLK Jr. Day resonates throughout Brooklyn
Hakeem Jeffries with his award, courtesy of NOBLE President Tonya Cauley-Scott, and Vice President Kristel Johnson. Photo by Wayne Daren Schneiderman
Martin Luther King Jr. Day, first officially observed nationally in 1986 when former President Ronald Reagan signed a bill to make it a federal holiday, was celebrated throughout Brooklyn this past weekend.
The National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives hosted its annual event in partnership with the African American Clergy and Elected Officials. The event honored King’s legacy on Monday at Christ Fellowship Baptist Church, 11 Sumpter St.
Opening remarks at the NOBLE event were provided by House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who referred to King as “a powerful voice for the voiceless.”
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For the Road
Tween Dance Party: Kids ages 10 to 14 are invited to a free tween-centered hangout at City Point on Saturday morning, sponsored by Brooklyn Bridge Parents and Brightline. TADA! will host a musical theater workshop featuring songs from “Wicked,” while DivaDance Brooklyn will be teaching moves at a “K-Pop Demon Hunters” dance party. Learn more about the event at brooklyneagle.com.
Happy Birthday to Indiana Fever point guard Caitlin Clark!
On This Day in 1945, the Eagle reported, “Four men who admitted having jumped over the turnstiles at the Kingston Ave. Independent subway station have started 20-day sentences in Raymond Street Jail following their plea of guilty to disorderly conduct charges and their inability to pay $50 fines.”
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