Nicholas Rizzi covers parts of Brooklyn for Patch including Park Slope, Gowanus, Sunset Park and Red Hook. Before joining Patch, he worked as a reporter/producer for DNAinfo where he covered Staten Island.
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A report found that DUMBO was the most expensive neighborhood in Brooklyn, but Fort Greene had the biggest increase in home prices.
The co-op plans to move to 1083 Fulton St. after they successfully raised more than $30,000 to save the store.
The 18-year-old woman was sexually assaulted by a knife-wielding man in the bathroom of a Sunset Park playground on Monday, reports said.
Rooftop Films will kick off their opening night of their Summer Series with film screenings at Green-Wood Cemetery next month.
Assemblyman Felix Ortiz introduced a bill last week to ban pedestrians allow the city from crossing the street while texting.
The duo behind Tekoá closed their Clinton Street storefront to turn it into a new seafood spot called the Pilar, Eater reported.
The MTA released a report blaming a recent rush-hour mess at the Bergen Street station on "relatively new" signals installed in 2006.
Gregory Price, 59, was arrested after police said he tried to rob Vivi Bubble Tea using a glue gun with black tape on it Tuesday.
The council approved using eminent domain to take over the Gowanus Station building to help with cleanup of the canal.
The pop-up, dubbed Lil' Sister, will have Australian-inspired dishes with a "flexible" workspace, gallery and events space.
A construction worker and two pedestrians were hurt Saturday after a scaffolding outside a Starbucks collapsed, police said.
The man fired several rounds into the air outside the Fire Lounge on Saturday, police said.
Doreen Garner will host a pop-up tattoo shop inside Pioneer Books to ink designs found in books from the Reanimation Library.
The city will bring their neighborhood policing model to Brooklyn and Bronx subway trains and stations.
Austrian artist Erwin Wurm will park an overside Volkswagen bus inside Brooklyn Bridge Park all summer to hand out free hot dogs.
The man sprayed Mace on a Manhattan-bound A train near the High Street station, injuring two passengers and causing delays, officials said.
The man groped a 21-year-old woman's groin while she was riding a Brooklyn-bound R train last month, police said.
The man masturbated in front of the woman riding a Brooklyn-bound N train on Monday, police said.
The annual music, dance and art festival returns In June, this time moving to Ikea's Erie Basin Park, organizers said.
Jayvon Mulzac was sentenced to 22 years to life behind bars after he killed his adoptive mother inside her Canarsie home, prosecutors said.
