
A (Christmas) Tree Grows in Brooklyn
By GEOFFREY COBB Author, “Greenpoint Brooklyn’s Forgotten Past” gcobb91839@Aol.com Right after Thanksgiving in Greenpoint and Williamsburg every year, the sidewalks are suddenly transformed. Hundreds of

By GEOFFREY COBB Author, “Greenpoint Brooklyn’s Forgotten Past” gcobb91839@Aol.com Right after Thanksgiving in Greenpoint and Williamsburg every year, the sidewalks are suddenly transformed. Hundreds of

By COLE SINANIAN | news@queensledger.com Clad in a pair of white latex gloves, Mimi Martins smiles as she gazes into Ja Rule the pond

By Cole Sinanian news@queensledger.com “This is a full-grown elephant.” Travis Gale pauses for effect, holding up the back of the leopard-print blanket that covers the

State regulators have homed in on 41 properties along Newtown Creek that may be leaking pollution back into the waterway. By COLE SINANIAN | news@queensledger.com The

By JACK DELANEY | jdelaney@queensledger.com Could AirPods help reduce the number of gun deaths in Brooklyn? The DA’s office thinks so. On Saturday, local District Attorney

By COLE SINANIAN | news@queensledger.com Starbucks workers protesting against unfair labor practices in Gowanus on Monday, December 1, received a welcome show of solidarity when

By JACK DELANEY | jdelaney@queensledger.com Late last month, a new street sign was affixed to a pole in South Slope, on 17th Street between 3rd and 4th

By JACK DELANEY | jdelaney@queensledger.com The race to become the second most powerful official in New York City had scarcely started before it was over. Last Wednesday,

By JACK DELANEY | jdelaney@queensledger.com They walk and bike among us, making strange loops in the park and cycling the wrong direction up one-way streets.

★ The last public comment session for the environmental review of the 122-acre Brooklyn Marine Terminal proposal took place on Monday, but the deadline for

By GEOFFREY COBB Author, “Greenpoint Brooklyn’s Forgotten Past” gcobb91839@Aol.com Right after Thanksgiving in Greenpoint and Williamsburg every year, the sidewalks are suddenly transformed. Hundreds of

By COLE SINANIAN | news@queensledger.com Clad in a pair of white latex gloves, Mimi Martins smiles as she gazes into Ja Rule the pond

By Cole Sinanian news@queensledger.com “This is a full-grown elephant.” Travis Gale pauses for effect, holding up the back of the leopard-print blanket that covers the

State regulators have homed in on 41 properties along Newtown Creek that may be leaking pollution back into the waterway. By COLE SINANIAN | news@queensledger.com The

By JACK DELANEY | jdelaney@queensledger.com Could AirPods help reduce the number of gun deaths in Brooklyn? The DA’s office thinks so. On Saturday, local District Attorney

By COLE SINANIAN | news@queensledger.com Starbucks workers protesting against unfair labor practices in Gowanus on Monday, December 1, received a welcome show of solidarity when

By JACK DELANEY | jdelaney@queensledger.com Late last month, a new street sign was affixed to a pole in South Slope, on 17th Street between 3rd and 4th

By JACK DELANEY | jdelaney@queensledger.com The race to become the second most powerful official in New York City had scarcely started before it was over. Last Wednesday,

By JACK DELANEY | jdelaney@queensledger.com They walk and bike among us, making strange loops in the park and cycling the wrong direction up one-way streets.

★ The last public comment session for the environmental review of the 122-acre Brooklyn Marine Terminal proposal took place on Monday, but the deadline for