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Neighborhood News: The Kimmel Resistance Comes to Fort Greene
New York magazine
|October 6-19, 2025
Unlikely free-speech warrior broadcasts from BAM.
JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! has held a week-long residency in Brooklyn seven times since 2012, but this was his first as Comrade Jimmy. About a week after Kimmel's show was reinstated from a suspension by ABC after comments by FCC chair Brendan Carr, the shows were full of politics and hometown affection. (He's from Mill Basin.) On Thursday, October 2, hundreds of free-ticket-lottery winners lined up at BAM’s Howard Gilman Opera House, infusing Ashland Place with midtown tourist energy. They shuffled through the lobby metal detectors, stopping to post at a giant photo-op scr
This story is from the October 6-19, 2025 edition of New York magazine.
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