Legal wrangling over $12.5B Lakers sale shows how family trusts don’t guarantee a business stays in the family
The Buss family’s 47-year ownership of the Los Angeles Lakers, 17-time NBA champions, could soon come to an end despite their patriarch’s clear wishes before he died. A group of investors that includes former Disney CEO Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner – the brother of Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law – wants to buy the basketball team for US$12.5 billion. The pending deal would set a record: No other sports franchise has ever fetched that high a price. Photo: Frank Franklin II/AP
Happy Tuesday in Brooklyn, where if there’s one thing this summer has taught us, it’s that nothing unifies a people like gathering around a big screen.
From the Knicks Finals watch parties outside Madison Square Garden to the public World Cup screenings across the five boroughs, New Yorkers of all stripes braved their claustrophobia and full bladders to stand shoulder-to-shoulder in shared commitment to a ball going through or into a net.
Together, we cheered and groaned and Deeeuuuuuuuce-d our team to victory. Whether we voted for Zohran or Cuomo or Sliwa, whether we rejoiced or recoiled at the pied-à-terre tax, we were all New Yorkers.
The watch party has grown beyond sports, too. Election Day watch parties have become a fixture for political candidates. Brad Lander invited over 100 supporters to his watch party for the culmination of his Congressional run on June 3rd. Mamdani filled the Brooklyn Paramount Theatre with a crowd of 2,700 on the day he was elected mayor.
All of which begs the question: what would our society look like, if we could only make our screens even bigger?
A back-to-school literacy event, Open Streets Reads, packed with crafts, coloring and literacy games will take place Sept. 19 on Hoyt Street.
1,000 discounted tickets to the U.S. Open, which begins this weekend, will be available to New Yorkers.
Gov. Hochul announced Tuesday that the statewide ban on using local police as ICE agents has taken effect.
Brooklyn Latin School has attained the number one spot in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2026-2027 Best High Schools rankings.
A breakthrough forensic technique was used in identifying a previously unknown victim of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Canarsie resident was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver while riding a bicycle in Flatlands just before midnight last Thursday.
Police are looking for an unidentified man suspected of walking up to a 74-year-old woman in Sunset Park and pushing her to the ground, causing minor injuries.
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WASHINGTON — Country music legend Dolly Parton died peacefully on Aug. 25 at the age of 80: Dolly Parton relaxes at her office in Nashville, Aug. 11, 2005.
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Battle of Brooklyn, largest battle of Revolutionary War, reenacted in Prospect Park
Preparing for battle. Photo: Wayne Daren Schneiderman/Brooklyn Eagle
A reenactment of the largest battle of the American Revolutionary War, “The Battle of Brooklyn,” took place before hundreds of spectators on Saturday at Long Meadow in Prospect Park.
The event was presented by the Prospect Park Alliance, the Old Stone House of Brooklyn and the Brigade of the American Revolution as part of the U.S. 250th anniversary celebrations. It featured approximately 300 reenactors in period-appropriate uniforms with muskets, following the path of the historic battle.
Brooklyn Borough Commissioner for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation Martin Maher told the Brooklyn Eagle that few people know key details of the battle, including that it was by far the largest battle of the American Revolution, with over 50,000 participants on both sides.
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On this day in 1926, the Eagle reported, “Five thousand persons, 10,000, maybe, have in times past had their dinners early in order to get to a movie house to see Rudolph Valentino in person.”
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