
Scenes from the 49th West Indian Day Parade
Photos by Jack Delaney


By Jack Delaney | jdelaney@queensledger.com In Prospect Park, over 300 reenactors charged across the Long Meadow in a cloud of musket smoke. In Red Hook, an

Journalist Vincent Coppola’s new book, “Gowanus Crossing,” is a vivid portrait of a Brooklyn neighborhood lost to time. BY COLE SINANIAN cole@queensledger.com “I lived in

GEOFFREY COBB Author, “Greenpoint Brooklyn’s Forgotten Past” gcobb91839@Aol.com McGinn’s looked like a hundred other working-class taverns scattered across Brooklyn, but to the men who gathered

BY COLE SINANIAN | cole@queensledger.com BUSHWICK — The person charged with burning down the 173-year-old South Bushwick Reformed Church in a June 19 arson attack that

GEOFFREY COBB Author, “Greenpoint Brooklyn’s Forgotten Past” gcobb91839@Aol.com No street in Greenpoint has lost more of its historic character than West Street, which runs parallel

GEOFFREY COBB Author, “Greenpoint Brooklyn’s Forgotten Past” gcobb91839@Aol.com There is an old saying that “you can’t fight City Hall,” and nowhere has it rung truer

At a two-day festival in Bed-Stuy, attendees and vendors bonded over cocoa-bean juice, a Trinidadian twist on cinnamon rolls, and more By Christian Spencer news@queensledger.com

BY COLE SINANIAN cole@queensledger.com BOROUGH HALL — It’s been a stressful few weeks for the Haitian Brooklynites under Temporary Protected Status (TPS), who could lose

BY GEOFFREY COBB Author, “Greenpoint Brooklyn’s Forgotten Past” gcobb91839@Aol.com Like countless other Greenpointers, I was shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of Donna


By Jack Delaney | jdelaney@queensledger.com In Prospect Park, over 300 reenactors charged across the Long Meadow in a cloud of musket smoke. In Red Hook, an

Journalist Vincent Coppola’s new book, “Gowanus Crossing,” is a vivid portrait of a Brooklyn neighborhood lost to time. BY COLE SINANIAN cole@queensledger.com “I lived in

GEOFFREY COBB Author, “Greenpoint Brooklyn’s Forgotten Past” gcobb91839@Aol.com McGinn’s looked like a hundred other working-class taverns scattered across Brooklyn, but to the men who gathered

BY COLE SINANIAN | cole@queensledger.com BUSHWICK — The person charged with burning down the 173-year-old South Bushwick Reformed Church in a June 19 arson attack that

GEOFFREY COBB Author, “Greenpoint Brooklyn’s Forgotten Past” gcobb91839@Aol.com No street in Greenpoint has lost more of its historic character than West Street, which runs parallel

GEOFFREY COBB Author, “Greenpoint Brooklyn’s Forgotten Past” gcobb91839@Aol.com There is an old saying that “you can’t fight City Hall,” and nowhere has it rung truer

At a two-day festival in Bed-Stuy, attendees and vendors bonded over cocoa-bean juice, a Trinidadian twist on cinnamon rolls, and more By Christian Spencer news@queensledger.com

BY COLE SINANIAN cole@queensledger.com BOROUGH HALL — It’s been a stressful few weeks for the Haitian Brooklynites under Temporary Protected Status (TPS), who could lose

BY GEOFFREY COBB Author, “Greenpoint Brooklyn’s Forgotten Past” gcobb91839@Aol.com Like countless other Greenpointers, I was shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of Donna