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.
His work has appeared in City Limits Magazine, the New York Daily News, the Local blog on the New York Times and the Staten Island Advance. Nick got a master's degree from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism where he concentrated on urban reporting.
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The festival will return to Commodore Barry Pary on August 25 and 26 with performances by Badu, Janelle Monae, Tyler the Creator and more.
Fabiano Caruana will be the first American to compete for world championship since Bobby Fischer in 1972.
The city announced plans to start a community solar garden on the rooftop of the Brooklyn Army Terminal for a shared energy program.
Joseph Moloney was indicted for lying under oath about how a gun was found in an apartment to get a search warrant, prosecutors said.
The 16-year-old arranged to meet up with people to buy sneakers at the subway, but then swiped them from the sellers, police said.
Residents will hold a candlelight vigil in front of the building on April 10 calling on the federal government to save it from demolition.
The luxury building started sales on condos last week with prices climbing to $3.4 million, developers said.
The city launched a pilot program letting cyclists use leading pedestrian intervals at 50 intersections to give them a head start on cars.
The city put up a batch of apartments from $735 to $888 in the former bakery turned residential building at 555 Waverly Ave.
The city had 10 percent more people diagnosed with the disease, with Sunset Park, Western Queens and Flushing having the highest rates.
The person was hit by a Manhattan-bound N train near the Eighth Avenue station at about 12:55 p.m., officials said.
Rajesh Bhardwaj, the owner of Junoon, plans to open up Bowl & Blade at 169 Fifth Ave. next month, Eater reported.
The Oxford Nursing Home filed plans with the state to relocate to East New York after a new facility was shot down in Red Hook.
Ramon Thomas punched the 5-year-old in the face on the train then asked the boy, "Are you going to cry to your mommy?"
The Brooklyn Heights Association started a push to get the state to kill a bill that would lift the size limit on residential buildings.
Lamont Wright was sentenced for stalking and killing his ex-girlfriend, Michelle Marks, inside Brooklyn Bridge Park, prosecutors said.
The city released a batch of apartments in Park Slope ranging from $642 to $1,000 in a lottery.
Video shows two NYPD officers in Brooklyn getting beat by kids in a snowball fight during Wednesday's Nor'easter.
Dorothy Bruns, the driver in the Park Slope crash that killed two children, struck a pedestrian in Queens in Sept., the Daily News reported.
The city will suspend alternate-side parking rules until Friday to help with snow cleanup after a storm dumped nearly 14 inches of snow.
