Happy Tuesday! There’s a madness in New York City, and the time has come for you to take advantage of it.
No, I’m not talking about the upcoming final four of the men’s NCAA basketball tournament, or even the spring fever that’s driven millions of New Yorkers from their blue-light-tinted dens of winter hibernation. This is a madness of the mayor’s invention.
On March 27, Mayor Mamdani announced the inaugural Mayor’s Municipal Madness — a bracket-style tournament of city woes and headaches under the purview of the city Departments of Parks and Recreation, Sanitation and Transportation, competing for the title of the city’s biggest gripe. Mamdani promises that his administration will deal with the winner — whether it be installing dog waste dispensers in Brooklyn or fixing a public water fountain in Manhattan — by day 100 of his term.
The field of municipal woes has been whittled down from the most egregious eight to the most flagrant four (painting a handball wall in East Harlem is out, repairing playground fencing in Morris Park is still in the running), but it’s not too late for you to help choose a winner. You can vote on the final four here later today and tomorrow. Championship voting is open on Thursday and Friday.
What daily inconvenience did the mayor leave off his list? Let us know at [email protected], and we might just make a bracket of our own!
The city filed a lawsuit in the Manhattan Supreme Court that seeks to permanently bar the Empower app from operating in the five boroughs without a Taxi and Limousine Commission license.
A Gale Brewer imposter scammed NYC’s pension fund out of $32,980.
Thousands of anti-Trump demonstrators joined Park Slope’s No Kings protest on Saturday with American flags, handmade signs, chants and singing.
Someone who bought a Mega Millions lottery ticket in Prospect Lefferts Gardens for the March 27 drawing is $4 million richer — if they cash in their ticket.
Mourners and street-safety advocates gathered March 29 at Ocean Parkway and Quentin Road to mark the first anniversary of the crash that killed 34-year-old Natasha Saada and her daughters, Diana, 8, and Deborah, 5.
A longtime parishioner in Canarsie accumulated $939 in parking fines for stopping in a bus lane on Sundays, despite posted signage exempting the day. His record was cleared with the help of 7 On Your Side.
Michael Bellevue, 26, of Crown Heights, was sentenced to five years in prison for the gunpoint robbery of a bodega — one where he was a regular customer, and where he had purchased a black ski mask just 20 minutes earlier.
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FLORIDA — Aimed for the moon in dramatic pre-dawn light: Photographers set up remote cameras near NASA's Artemis II moon rocket on Launch Pad 39-B just before sunrise at the Kennedy Space Center, Tuesday, March 31, 2026, in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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AI takes center stage at Wikipedia’s 25th birthday celebration in Brooklyn
Attendees at Wikipedia Day NYC 2026 used scanners, receipts with QR codes and a printer to experience a physical representation of exploring Wikipedia’s many links. Photo: Brennan LaBrie/Brooklyn Eagle
The City Tech campus in Downtown Brooklyn hosted some of the internet’s most prolific writers and editors on March 28.
Their work is read around the globe, and there’s a good chance readers have come across it. Yet one wouldn’t recognize their names or faces because they’re Wikipedia editors who contribute to the world’s largest online encyclopedia under pseudonyms.
The editors joined avid Wikipedia readers to celebrate the website’s 25th anniversary and envision its future. Throughout the day, one topic dominated the events panels, “lightning” talks and hallway conversations: artificial intelligence.
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Egg Hunt: Thousands of eggs, hundreds of kids and “tons of volunteers” made the twin egg hunts in Brooklyn Heights a smashing success. The event became so popular a few years ago that it was split into two locations. At Harry Chapin Playground, the under-threes scrambled to find colorful plastic eggs tucked under trees and stashed atop playground equipment. Slightly older children brought their Easter baskets to Pierrepont Playground, where a giant white bunny entertained and posed with kids (and local officials) for adorable photos. See the photos on our website and learn more about this beloved event.
Happy Birthday to Oscar-winning actor Christopher Walken!
On This Day in 1913, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “The death of J.P. Morgan did not paralyze the financial world. There was no outpouring of securities here or abroad, and the New York stock market displayed a very orderly tone.”
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