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This 100-year-old great-grandma was a top welder during WW2 — and now she keeps fit with a crazy workout
Michelle Cohen used to fuse steel gun mounts onto ships at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, now she pumps iron.
These neighborhoods are the epicenter of NYC's tech boom
Last year, the greater NYC area attracted 14.3% of all tech-sector employees who relocated in the US — more than any other city.
John Summit: Where to buy tickets, best prices, "Comfort in the Chaos" album
It's a #summitsummer!
Historic Concorde supersonic jet is making its way back to the Intrepid Museum after restoration
The iconic British Airways Concorde G-BOAD supersonic jet will return to NYC's Intrepid Museum after it spent months being restored at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
SNL’s 85-year-old carpenter has worked on every episode — and has an idea who could replace Lorne Michaels
Meet the man who has been behind the scenes since 1975.
Pratt Institute to expand footprint at Brooklyn Navy Yard
Dock 72 needed some good news -- and it got it. Developers Boston Properties and Rudin snared Pratt Institute as a new tenant. The 62,570 square-foot lease will bring to...
Migrants booted from mini-tent city under BQE have returned
Roughly 15 migrants were spotted living in a mini-tent city under a Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Saturday – a day after cops and Sanitation workers cleared out their makeshift encampment near the...
How the Navy made a secret deal with the mafia to win WWII
Before America could beat the Nazis, it had to secure the Port of New York.
Design firm to drop anchor at Dock 72 on Brooklyn waterfront
The deal for 71,000 square feet on Dock 72’s top two office floors marks a welcome advance for the project, where the pandemic slowed leasing efforts.
Eric Adams aide mugged at gunpoint told crooks: 'You don’t want to do this. I work for the mayor'
The aide, a civilian member of Mayor Eric Adams' advance team, was mugged by two men who approached him near the intersection of Navy and Sands streets in Brooklyn.
Brooklyn Navy Yard explosion seriously injures worker: officials
The blast happened in the FDNY Marine Unit’s mechanic area around 8:30 a.m. as a 55-year-old civilian mechanic was working on a vessel that was in dry dock, authorities said.
Pessimists were wrong: A great Manhattan office exodus didn't happen
The city’s office market is wearing a smaller shoe size due to the pandemic — but the footprint shrank by much less than was feared.
Brooklyn Navy Yard enlists Food52 digital hub as new tenant
Digital culinary hub Food52 is moving its headquarters from Chelsea to the Brooklyn Navy Yard -- and, dramatically, to Dock 72, the ship-shaped waterfront office tower by Rudin Development and...
Hospital for Special Surgery scores more room to operate
The Hospital for Special Surgery is massively stretching its Upper East Side footprint with an expansion to a new tower on which Extell Development will break ground this year.
RXR Realty has its work cut out to fill 5 Times Square
It’s battle stations at the Crossroads of the World, where Scott Rechler’s RXR Realty is ramping up to re-fill its 39-story, 1.1 million square-foot 5 Times Square, which will soon...
Picking up the pieces: Disgraced ex-pol Anthony Weiner has a new job
Weiner, 56, revealed his new gig in a promotional email that shows a product sample containing colorful flecks of orange and blue glass.
Zappos replacing American Eagle in Union Square
Zappos — the Amazon-owned online shoe retailer — appears to be launching a brick-and-mortar location. Sources said that Zappos has leased the three-level, roughly 16,000-square-foot corner of 19 Union Square...
Fashion company partners with body armor manufacturer to make surgical gowns
A half-century after the Brooklyn Navy Yard was decommissioned, the waterfront manufacturing hub is gearing up for war again — making desperately needed protective gear for New York's front line...
Wegmans in Brooklyn Navy Yard gains company at Building 212
Wegmans at the Brooklyn Navy Yard will soon have lots of company. Nearly 40,000 square feet at the same address, known as Building 212, are either leased or about to...
'Wegmaniacs' are ready to pounce on new Brooklyn Wegmans
Matt Palmer lives across the street from a Fairway in Kips Bay. But when it's time to grocery shop, he rents a car and drives 330 miles northwest. The 26-year-old...