Brooklyn Youth Chorus has transformed students’ lives for 35 years — but it’s under threat: Brooklyn Youth Chorus Founder Dianne Berkun Menaker is looking to the Brooklyn community for sustained support to carry a unique organization well into the future.

Grace Gray Faison, respected Plymouth Church elder and grande dame of Brooklyn Heights, dies at 101: A sixth-generation Brooklyn Heights resident — a member of the Heights Casino squash and social club, a leader at Plymouth Church, a supporter of nonprofits — Grace Faison’s life blended seamlessly into the social fabric of the neighborhood.

9-year-old boy killed by school bus in Williamsburg: Yoel Jacobowitz, age 9, was struck and killed by a yellow school bus around 8:18 a.m. Friday near the intersection of Lee and Lorimar streets, described as one of the busiest intersections in South Williamsburg.

Brooklyn man sentenced for killing girlfriend, firing at others in East Flatbush home: A Brooklyn man has been sentenced for fatally shooting his 49-year-old girlfriend inside their East Flatbush home, then turning the gun on others in the house as they hid in a bedroom with a newborn baby.

Registration opens for ‘The Longest Table’ communal potluck in Brooklyn Heights: Registration is open for the 2026 edition of “The Longest Table” in Brooklyn Heights, which brings hundreds of neighbors together for a free, block-long potluck sponsored by the Brooklyn Heights Association.

Amtrak may make it easier to bring guns on its trains despite the alleged attempt on Trump’s life: Amtrak is considering allowing people to store guns in lockboxes on most of its trains, which critics say would weaken security measures that instead should be strengthened in light of the shooting at last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.

Carnegie Corporation gives $210,000 to Brooklyn libraries: The Carnegie Corporation of New York has awarded $10,000 to 21 Brooklyn Public Library branches across Brooklyn to celebrate the nation’s 250th birthday and to aid local communities.

AI in the courthouse: Maintaining ‘professional responsibility’: Artificial Intelligence, a rapidly evolving, timely topic that has made its way into the courthouse through legal research tools, drafting assistance, case management tools and more, was the central theme of discussion at the Bay Ride Lawyers Association’s recent Continuing Legal Education.

The web isn’t broken. It’s working exactly as designed: Here’s what most people miss: No one set out to ruin reading. No editor decided to make it miserable. This is what happens when thousands of small, rational decisions accumulate.

Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act ruling makes it harder to protect minority voting power and alters the landscape of future elections: The decision, by weakening the Voting Rights Act, could make it easier for states to draw partisan gerrymanders of their congressional districts that reduce the power of minorities. (The Conversation)

Our world in photos: Rallies, rats, runs and more.

"How Robert Moses Cut Through Brooklyn And Queens" (Streetsblog)

"Protest breaks out as ICE arrests man at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Bushwick" (ABC7NY)

"The Pratt Students Patching Pants in a Brooklyn Mending Circle" (NYT)

READ: Should we all start smoking cigarettes again? (The Cut)

EAT: "The Oxtail Off" — where chefs compete to make the best oxtail — is coming to Brooklyn in June. (Time Out)

CARTOON: A new graduation tradition. (The New Yorker)

LIVE: "This Writer Transformed an 'Outdated' 325-Square-Foot Brooklyn Rental in Just 2 Weeks" (Apartment Therapy)

Jackson family matriarch Katherine Jackson

“Outbreak” author Robin Cook, who was born in Brooklyn

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Jackie Jackson

Former Panic! at the Disco bassist Dallon Weekes

Former “Saturday Night Live” star Ana Gasteyer

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