Zohran Mamdani, the front-runner in the New York City mayor’s race, and Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, have a kinship shaped in part by their shared opposition to the president. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “Brooklyn (NYC)”
In This Restaurant, the Crabs Are Part of the Art
By Gotham Rex on October 10, 2025
For the Amant art center in Brooklyn, the artist Pierre Huyghe takes inspiration from a Superfund site for a new aquarium commission. Source: New York Times
Man Charged With Fatally Beating 64-Year-Old at Subway Station
By Gotham Rex on October 9, 2025
Nicola Tanzi survived both attacks on the World Trade Center, his family said. On Tuesday at a subway station in Brooklyn, he was killed by a man he had apparently never seen before. Source: New York Times
New York City Is Full of Green Space. You Just Have to Find It.
By Gotham Rex on October 5, 2025
The city’s millions of residents are crammed together, competing for space to live, play, work and rest. Source: New York Times
Margaret Markey, Who Championed Victims of Sexual Abuse, Dies at 83
By Gotham Rex on October 3, 2025
As a New York State assemblywoman, she began a campaign that finally bore fruit in 2019, when the Legislature extended the deadlines for victims to file claims. Source: New York Times
13 Moments That Have Defined Eric Adams’s Political Career
By Gotham Rex on September 28, 2025
Mr. Adams served in the New York State Senate and as Brooklyn borough president before becoming mayor of New York City in 2022. Ethical questions have followed him along the way. Source: New York Times
They Held a Rally for Charter Schools. Then Came the Backlash.
By Gotham Rex on September 21, 2025
A large demonstration — and a hostile response — could signal a resurgence of a political battle over the publicly funded but privately run schools. Source: New York Times
Five-Alarm Fire on Brooklyn Waterfront Devastates Artists’ Warehouse
By Gotham Rex on September 20, 2025
A row of converted 19th-century buildings filled with artists in the 1990s and transformed Red Hook. Now the work of more than 500 artists may be lost. Source: New York Times
Repeat Offender Charged With Threatening the Lives of Female Judges
By Gotham Rex on September 16, 2025
Anthony Salvatore Perri threatened to kill two jurists and said others were targets, prosecutors say. The charges against him come as the nation is seeing a wave of threats against judges. Source: New York Times
How a Small Avant-Garde Theater Makes It Work in Brooklyn
By Gotham Rex on September 14, 2025
The Brick, an Off Off Broadway institution in Williamsburg, has kept the lights on for more than 20 years by cobbling together support from donors, grants and ticket sales. Source: New York Times
How the Star WNBA Couple Natasha Cloud and Isabelle Harrison Spend Their Day Off
By Gotham Rex on September 13, 2025
Natasha Cloud and Isabelle Harrison, New York Liberty teammates, have different approaches to practice, but they share a bowl of pho and a love of TikTok. Source: New York Times
First Muslim Woman to Be Federal Judge Confirmed by Senate
By Gotham Rex on June 16, 2023
Nusrat Choudhury, a civil rights lawyer, will begin her lifetime appointment as a judge in Federal District Court in Brooklyn. Source: New York Times
‘The Power of Trees:’ Among the ‘Machines’ Fighting Climate Change
By Gotham Rex on June 16, 2023
Adrian Benepe of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden believes in trees and is highlighting them in a new exhibit. And New York’s City Council is back on the ballot starting Saturday. Source: New York Times
‘Nightmare’ Warehouse Fire Erases Evidence in Many Unsolved Cases
By Gotham Rex on December 14, 2022
Lawyers say evidence in cold cases and bids for exoneration disappeared or was ruined when a Police Department storage facility in Brooklyn went up in flames. Source: New York Times
Jay Goldberg, Tenacious Lawyer for Celebrities, Dies at 89
By Gotham Rex on December 14, 2022
He defended Donald Trump, Sean Combs, Bono, the Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels and mob figures with wit and verve. Source: New York Times