423 Bay Ridge Parkway (aka 75th Street) is part of a row in Bay Ridge known as Doctors’ Row built between 1899 and 1910 by the Bay Ridge Development Company. The neo-Renaissance row houses originally ...

A gate (left) to the remains of Denyse Wharf near the Verrazzano Bridge. Image courtesy of Google Maps In August 1776, British troops used Denyse Wharf to enter Brooklyn ahead of the infamous Battle ...

A fire erupted on a second floor apartment above a candy store on Fourth Ave. near 92nd St. in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, just after 7 a.m. on Thursday Feb. 6, 2025.

The fire broke out on the top floor of the four-story building on Cropsey Ave., between Bay Parkway and Bay 31st Street in Bay Ridge around 11 a.m., fire officials said.

Brooklyn has spoken—or, more accurately, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden has—and crowned the 2025 Greenest Block in Brooklyn.

That peaked in 1940; Bay Ridge became home to some 55,000 Norwegians. But the Norwegian American contingent of Bay Ridge slowly faded away in the second half of the 20th century.

Norwegians came to New York by boatloads in the 1800s. At its peak in 1940, Bay Ridge was home to some 55,000 Norwegians. Norwegian Americans slowly moved away in the second half of the 20th century.