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Lawyers for the landlord chalked up a tenant's harassment claims — including loose chickens and a break-in — to life the Big Apple.
A 20-year-0ld accused of shooting two people was arrested Wednesday, police said.
Barboncino in Brooklyn made pizza history Wednesday when workers voted to unionize.
Property records show a new building planned for Park Avenue in Brooklyn will have residential and commercial space.
The Brooklyn man had been missing since Sunday, police said Wednesday.
Kings County Hospital is home to Brooklyn's longest running sidewalk shed scaffolding permit, Buildings department records show.
A Brownsville drug ring came crashing down Tuesday after prosecutors seized nine guns and narcotics over months.
Brooklyn's scaffolding permits date back to 2011, according Buildings department data.
Police say the man's injuries indicate he fell from some height, but it was not clear how.
"I’d rather go back to jail than somebody taking my life," one young participant told researchers in Crown Heights.
Frank James pleaded guilty in January to shooting 10 people in a Brooklyn subway car last year, court records show.
Marisa Mendez Marthaller is up against some stiff competition for a $10,000 fellowship to grow her unique soup business.
Police say a 60- and 68-year-old shot a man twice in Crown Heights in May.
The woman was in stable condition after being stabbed multiple times. Her suspected stabbers had not been caught days later.
The development will include 43 affordable housing units and a health care facility.
Police say Terrell Harper broke a transit cop's scanner, advocates say cops tried to take the car they use to feed hungry neighbors.
The suspected shooter had children with the 38-year-old woman and before he shot himself, he shot her other lover, according to reports.
Brooklyn creatives will take over Bed-Stuy's stoops and sidewalks with conversation starters and representations of 'Black Utopia.'
Facing costly repairs, the Brower Park library moved into the neighboring Brooklyn Children's Museum and opened its doors Thursday.
A triple shooting in Brooklyn left a woman in critical condition and a man dead Thursday, according to police.
