New Council bill would allow bodega cats: The bill would strike the city Health Code’s ban on animals in food stores, and would direct the Department of Small Business Services and the Office of Animal Welfare to create a program offering free spaying, neutering and vaccination to working cats.

NYC building workers strike averted, tentative contract deal reached: The four-year agreement will offer 32BJ SEIU doormen, porters, handymen, supers and resident managers $4.50 per hour wage increases over four years; a 15% increase to a guaranteed pension for those who retire as union members; maintenance of family health care benefits with no premium sharing; and protection of future hires.

Prince Street Pizza to open Carroll Gardens outpost April 23: Straddling the Cobble Hill-Carroll Gardens border, the Smith Street location represents the pizzeria’s first in-city expansion since its 2012 debut on Prince Street in Nolita.

Sale closes on Lily Allen and David Harbour’s Carroll Gardens brownstone: The showstopper of a home at 381 Union St., which the celebrity pair showed off in an Architectural Digest tour in 2023, last year became a supporting character in the couple’s high-profile breakup.

Gowanus’ Dinosaur Bar-B-Que to close this spring: An early arrival to the neighborhood’s gentrification and rezoning, Dinosaur served Gowanus diners for 15 years.

Who owns your face?: Once your face leaves your face, you lose control. Here’s the legal paradox at the heart of it all: You can’t copyright your own face, but someone can copyright an image of it.

One night in Brooklyn to save the earth: Jane Fonda on BAM stage to clarify urgency of climate crisis: “Dear Everything,” a folk-pop musical about the climate crisis, will play for one night only at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Earth Day on Wednesday.

Ex-NBA player Damon Jones is expected to become first person to plead guilty in gambling sweep: Former NBA player and assistant coach Damon Jones is expected to become the first person to plead guilty in a gambling sweep that led to the arrests of more than 30 people, including reputed mobsters and other basketball figures.

MTA’s post-pandemic weekend ridership recovery outpaces weekday use: The average weekend subway ridership in 2025 was at 89% of the 2019 level, up from 80% in 2024.

Green-House at Green-Wood celebrates opening with ‘blue ribbon’ attendees: After years of planning and construction, The Green-Wood Cemetery held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its long-awaited greenhouse and Education Center in front of partners, elected officials and community leaders on Thursday.

Presidential words can turn the unthinkable into the thinkable, for better or for worse: What seems different about his words during the first week of April 2026 is the scale of violence his language primed people to imagine. (The Conversation)

Our world in photos: Masses, mayhem, metal and more.

"A New Historian for the Borough of Brooklyn" (NYT)

"Why Paolo Pasco, a Brooklyn crossword champion, thinks the puzzles are blowing up" (Gothamist)

"New Yorkers Warm to Mamdani’s Redesign Plan for Iconic Brooklyn Plaza" (NYT)

READ: "The Hardest Part Of History To Tell Is How It Felt" (Defector)

EAT: It was “a good spot in a bad location." A move to Brooklyn Heights was exactly what this restaurant needed. (Grub Street)  

CARTOON: Jesus speaks to Pope Leo. (Brooklyn Eagle)

LIVE: “Downtown Tower or Tree-Lined Street? A New Brooklynite Weighed Her Options.” (NYT)

“Star Trek” star George Takei

Two-time Oscar-winning actress Jessica Lange

Olympic gold medalist and N.Y. Knicks executive Allan Houston

Supermodel Miranda Kerr

Former N.Y. Yankees captain Don Mattingly

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