Jordan Firstman's first feature, Club Kid, follows gay Brooklyn party promoter Peter as he is thrust into fatherhood when his nine‑year‑old son Arlo appears after Peter loses his job. Set in 2016, the story shows Peter and his business partner Sophie running club events, while the plot includes drug use and a threesome with Leonora. Characters from London travel to New York after a friend's suicide, and the film blends humor with sex, drugs and sudden parenthood themes.
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14 November 2026
A continuous public reading of a roughly 1,300-page book is taking place in the Gowanus neighbourhood of Brooklyn, New York. Readers take turns every ten minutes, and the event runs around the clock over several days. Organiser Brad Vogel estimates it will last about 65 to 66 hours. Vogel said he stayed awake past 4 a.m. to keep the event's technical systems running.
12 November 2026
At least eight people are dead and 18 injured after a three-storey residential building collapsed in Flatbush, Brooklyn, on Wednesday afternoon, New York officials say. The building came down while workers were excavating an adjoining lot. About 250 first responders were sent to the site, and crews continued searching the rubble. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said six people died at the scene and two in hospital. The cause is under investigation, and the mayor has ordered a probe into five companies and 100 construction sites linked to them.
11 November 2026
A superseding indictment unsealed on Tuesday charges three men with supporting terrorism in nearly twenty planned attacks on Jewish sites in Europe and the United States and a foiled plot against the British air base RAF Fairford where U.S. forces are stationed. The indictment names Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al‑Saadi, a dual Iranian‑Iraqi national held in Brooklyn, Mohsen Mohajeri, an Iranian, and Mohammad Ali al‑Hassani, an Iraqi, and alleges they acted for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Iraqi militia Kata'ib Hezbollah.