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4 days ago | brooklynpaper.com | Gabriele Holtermann

Music lovers, rejoice. With warmer weather settling in, one of the borough’s most beloved summer traditions, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!, is just around the corner. BRIC has announced the lineup for New York City’s longest-running free, summer-long outdoor concert and performance series, which has entertained generations of New Yorkers for more than 47 years. The festival — presented in partnership with the Prospect Park Alliance and NYC Parks — runs from June 7 through Aug.

4 days ago | brooklynpaper.com | Gabriele Holtermann

Brooklyn’s most endearing flying spectacle returned to Dumbo on May 31, as thousands of tiny toy elephants parachuted from rooftops along Washington Street during the annual Dumbo Drop. Hundreds of spectators filled the iconic cobblestone block between Front and Water streets, in the shadow of the Manhattan Bridge, for the sky-high extravaganza that raises money for Dumbo’s Title I public schools — P.S. 307 Elementary and The Dock Street School for STEAM Studies.

1 week ago | brooklynpaper.com | Neighborhood Acts |Emily Davenport |Brooklyn Paper

The NYPD is looking for a suspect who assaulted a bus driver with a wrench in Red Hook earlier this month. According to police, at 8:04 a.m. on May 13, a 71-year-old male MTA employee was operating a B61 bus near the vicinity of Lorraine Street and Hicks Street when an unknown man boarded the bus. The suspect got into an argument with the driver, pulled out a wrench and hit the driver in the forehead with the wrench. The suspect then fled the scene on a scooter headed eastbound on Lorraine Street.

1 week ago | brooklynpaper.com | Kirstyn Brendlen

There are just weeks to go until New York City’s June 24 primary election, and with early voting set to begin on June 14, New Yorkers are preparing to head to the polls. All 51 seats of the City Council are on the ballot this year, but some races are more competitive than others — while some incumbents are running unopposed, many are facing challengers from new candidates.

1 week ago | brooklynpaper.com | Gabriele Holtermann

Rideshare drivers, delivery workers, labor activists and local Democrats rallied May 28 in Kensington with City Council Member Shahana Hanif, who accused Uber of interfering in the June 24 Democratic primary. Campaign filings released May 28 show Uber has spent more than $129,000 on mail and digital ads backing Hanif’s opponent, local activist and NYU Brennan Center senior research fellow Maya Kornberg.