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BK Contractor Spent Clients' $700K On Designer Shopping Spree: DA
Steven Crystal said he'd build a Midwood couple a tower and balcony, then went shopping at Oscar de la Renta and ate at Tao, the DA said.

Kathleen Culliton is regional manager of Patch's New York City bureau.
Steven Crystal said he'd build a Midwood couple a tower and balcony, then went shopping at Oscar de la Renta and ate at Tao, the DA said.

Bed-Stuy, one of the city's hungriest areas, is not a top participant in SNAP. Experts fear that's because immigrants are scared to enroll.
A 33-year-old woman died after an attack on Mother Gaston Boulevard Tuesday morning, police said.
Former Portland Trailblazer Sebastian Telfair was sentenced to 3 years for driving around Brooklyn with a loaded gun, prosecutors said.
All it takes to apply for these affordable Flatbush homes is a near-six figure income.
The city paid $20,000 to settle a lawsuit against ex-cop Richard Hall, twice accused of assaulting women during drug arrests in 2017.
Police are looking for the gunman who shot a man on Nostrand Avenue last Sunday.
Police are looking for the man who robbed Saint Sylvester Church on McKinley Avenue.
Patch is kicking off a new series of celebrity interviews. This week, Gastor Almonte explains why great comedians come from East New York.
A 56-year-old man died two days after he was struck by a Ford SUV in Ditmas Park, according to police.
"It's important to come out and make sure that no other child gets left without a mother or a mother gets left with no kids," she said.
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Prosecutors declined to pursue charges against Kenton Degale, accused of raping a woman in Linden Park Saturday morning, sources said.
Video posted to Reddit Thursday shows a man on a Bed-Stuy corner hitting a woman the poster says is his pregnant wife.
A Lincoln Place block won the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Greenest Block award, officials announced.
“It didn’t scare me,” said Tony Mannino, 54. “I had to save this lady’s life.”
Find out if you qualify for an affordable one-bedroom apartment in a new elevator building in Bed-Stuy.
Kevin Raphael pleaded guilty to attacking Brooklyn bus riders while shouting, "I hate all you white (expletive)," prosecutors said.
Blacksun Greene watched cops tase his dad into a heart attack, then was punched when he started to scream, a new lawsuit claims.
National Grid denied Empanada City a gas hook-up in its new Bushwick location as part of a campaign to build a pipeline, reports show.