Herd of life-size buffalo puppets parades through Brooklyn, enchanting thousands
Brooklyn Borough Hall Plaza rings with the sound of Rhiannon Giddens and Resistance Revival Chorus’ “Freedom Highway” as 40 life-size buffalo puppets paw the ground. Photo: Mary Frost/Brooklyn Eagle
A herd of 40 life-size buffalo puppets, followed by thousands of entranced spectators, paraded through Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights and Brooklyn Bridge Park on Saturday.
It was easy to believe the buffalo were alive, even though the colored thread holding their burlap bodies together was visible. The magnificent creatures lumbered, stomped and pawed, at times lunging toward the crowds. Handlers appeared to hold them back, shouting commands in Arabic and Xhosa, a Bantu language.
Happy Tuesday in a rapidly cooling city, where the high temps are stuck in the 60s for the next few days. Today is the meteorological last day of summer (no matter how old we get, the spiritual last day of summer will always be the day before school starts), and the time has officially come to start unpacking those sweaters.
You may want to keep a few of them in storage, however. According to the National Weather Service, New York will experience a warmer-than-usual fall this year, and potentially a warmer winter, too. Expect that crisp autumn weather to arrive in fits and starts, with cold snaps interrupted by stubborn stretches of warmth.
Blame it on everyone’s favorite oscillation cycle, El Niño. “ El Niño is going to be the main climate driver,” National Weather Service meteorologist James Connolly told Gothamist. “ I’m expecting above-normal temperatures and precipitation, and this is a typical El Niño-type signal that we get.”
El Niño also usually corresponds with lower-than-average snowfall — good news for the Mamdani administration fresh off one of the snowiest winters in years; bad news for anyone banking on the city’s $30/hour snow shovelling gig.
From this day on, night will be longer than day. When we reach the end of the month, the sun will set an hour earlier than it did at the start of the month. The precipitous slide into after-dark happy hour has begun.
Going strong on Cortelyou Road since the 1970s, the Flatbush Frolic will return this Sunday for another year, bringing live music, food, rides and more to the neighborhood.
A new robotic surgery program at Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital, with more than 20 cases completed to date.
A new model sustainability apartment for public housing was unveiled at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
The Yard Opportunity Shop has welcomed its third rotation of small businesses.
Assemblymember Robert Carroll has secured $30K in state funding to expand the Reading Institute’s Science of Reading Intro Course, with new modules on dyslexia, language-based learning disabilities, and adolescent emergent readers.
DoorDash will pay a $131.5M enforcement penalty for systematic violations of NYC’s delivery worker laws after it underpaid, failed to pay or paid late more than 260,000 workers.
NY AG Letitia James and Gov. Hochul announced NY and seven other AGs are suing to block two deals by the Trump administration that would pay energy companies $1.4B in taxpayer dollars to cancel four offshore wind projects.
A suspect in last month’s fatal shooting at a Brownsville restaurant has been charged with first-degree murder.
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BPL unveils proposed design for 122-year-old Pacific Library
Pacific Library from Pacific Street. Rendering: Safdie Architects
A proposed design for the renovation of Pacific Library, a historic Carnegie library on the border of Park Slope and Boerum Hill, was unveiled Thursday by Brooklyn Public Library, Safdie Architects and AYON Studio. The design would preserve the character of the landmark 1904 building, the first Carnegie Library built in Brooklyn, while making it fully accessible and creating 34% more space, according to BPL President and CEO Linda Johnson and Safdie Architects. The project is expected to begin construction in 2027.
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On this day in 1883, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle said, “While other Arctic explorers appear to be habitually unfortunate, and to be pursued, especially in the case of Americans, by a persistently malignant fate, Baron Nordenskjold seems to succeed in every enterprise he undertakes.”
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