Brooklyn News Archives

A trio of toddlers 5, 6 and 7 years of age barely escaped serious injury after police apprehended a suspect in an alleged sexual assault in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn late last week.

New City Rotary scholarships: The Rotary Club of New City presented its Felix Festa Scholarship Award to Clarkstown North High School students Gina Bull and Aleena Cherian and Clarkstown South High School ...

Thomas Atkins, Boston's first black at-large city councilor, who faced off against school busing opponents as an NAACP leader in the 1970s, has died.

Three U.S. soldiers -- including two from the New York National Guard -- were killed in Afghanistan Thursday, the Pentagon reported Sunday.

The mastermind behind a multimillion-dollar scheme to loot hundreds of corpses and sell bone and tissue for transplants was sentenced Friday to 18 to 54 years in prison after he apologized to the horrified ...

The rapper - who is married to former Destiny's Child singer Beyonce Knowles - revealed his rise to stardom stems from a desire to escape from his hometown of Brooklyn, New York.

A former federal jail captain will spend 51 months behind bars for leading the beating of a New York City inmate, then leaving a makeshift noose behind to try to make it look like a suicide attempt.

A teenager was shot to death in Brooklyn . Police said the 17-year-old was shot once in his chest early Saturday in the Coney Island neighborhood.

LOS ANGELES : An Israeli banker pleaded guilty Friday to participating in a decade-long tax fraud and money laundering scheme that cheated the Internal Revenue Service out of at least $33 million.

The mastermind behind a ghoulish scheme to steal body parts from corpses, including that of BBC veteran Alistair Cooke, was jailed for at least 18 years today.

But a $15.5 million quartet of artificial waterfalls, 90 to 120 feet high, will be making a big splash along New York City's East River this summer.

The quaint South Hempstead ranch-style home could use a new kitchen, and its bathroom should be remodeled.

NEW YORK -- New York City and state lawmakers have agreed to revive a trash transfer station in a riverfront Manhattan park, a cornerstone of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan to reinvent how his city handles its ...

A Superior Court judge ruled Thursday that a Brooklyn, N.Y., man charged with first-degree murder in connection with a shooting in the parking lot of a Green Brook restaurant six years ago is mentally competent ...

NEW YORK - Mobs of fans greeted the opening this week of build-it-yourself furniture chain IKEA's first store in New York City - but the fervor is masking shoppers' underlying frugality.

This is an incredible story: another positive outcome of the pioneering ways that people are using their blogs in neighborhoods around the city.

The Gottis have been reduced from a mob to a two-made-men band. Two family members pleaded guilty to attempted murder yesterday in Brooklyn federal court - leaving only an aging soldier and an "estranged" capo ...

WHITE PLAINS - Donald Trust apparently didn't live up to his name. The 51-year-old Brooklyn man was arrested last night, after his boss at a White Plains eyeglass store conducted his own sting operation and ...

Three terror suspects accused of plotting to blow up Kennedy Airport were extradited Tuesday night from Trinidad and were flown to the United States to face arraignment in a Brooklyn courtroom Wednesday, ...

The Brooklyn Public Library's ambitious plan to build an iconic, Enrique Norten-designed performing arts branch near the Brooklyn Academy of Music has been abandoned, but rising in its place will be another ...

The recent mortgage market crisis has opened a Pandora's box of white-collar cases probed by the U.S. attorney's Eastern District office.

The Supreme Court announced today that it won't grant a hearing to a group that sued over the planned use of eminent domain for Atlantic Yards.

Two masked men accused of trying to hold up a White Plains dentist's office were identified today as a pair of ex-convicts who each served at least two stints in state prison, authorities said.

June 22, 2008 A Brooklyn teen, not even old enough to drive, was arrested yesterday, after driving a car into several pedestrians.

A 46-year-old man working on a telephone pole in Brooklyn has died. Steve Clayton was standing in a cherry picker working on the pole at the Fort Hamilton Army Base Saturday when a live wire struck him.

Dozens of gays and lesbians are expected to march Saturday in Brooklyn to demand safety after assaults on several people because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

An indictment was unsealed this morning in federal court in Brooklyn, NY, charging RALPH CIOFFI, the founder and senior portfolio manager of two Bear Stearns hedge funds, and MATTHEW TANNIN, a portfolio manager ...

Three high school students in Brooklyn have been suspended and charged after baking a cake laced with a laxative that sickened two teachers.

Gov. David A. Paterson and legislative leaders Thursday announced an agreement on measures aimed at helping people facing foreclosure or losing their homes because of the subprime mortgage debacle.

Attention, Ikea shoppers: Welcome to Brooklyn . The Swedish furniture retailer's latest U.S. store opened Wednesday in the Red Hook section of the borough - the first in New York City , the 35th in America and ...

The Justice Department unveiled indictments Thursday against two former hedge-fund managers for Bear Stearns Cos., citing fraud and conspiracy, federal prosecutors said.

Junior middleweight James Moore, 15-1 , a native of County Wicklow, Ireland, who fights out of Queens, New York, incurred his first defeat at the Aviator Sports Complex in Brooklyn, New York, on June 4. Gabriel ...

Charges will be dropped against scores of protesters arrested during demonstrations over the acquittals of three police officers in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man on his wedding day, prosecutors said ...

NEW YORK - A man convicted of secretly cutting up corpses - including that of Masterpiece Theatre host Alistair Cooke - has received a sentence of nine to 27 years for his role in a ghoulish ...

In March 2003, Zeinab Taleb-Jedi was a middle-aged widow who found herself trapped in a cold, dusty bunker in Iraq as invading U.S. forces began blowing up buildings and inflicting causalities all around her.

An elementary school in Brooklyn, New York, was evacuated after a man ran inside with a gun.

Two former hedge fund managers at investment bank Bear Stearns are expected to be indicted following a federal criminal probe into the funds' collapse, a person with knowledge of the situation said on ...

Two men from Brooklyn , New York , have been convicted in the brazen 2006 daytime robbery of a Georgetown jewelry store during which the shop owner was shot in the stomach.

TKTS will open in the MetroTech Center on July 10, marking the end of a 15-year absence in Brooklyn.

Three people snatched a 73-year-old shopper's purse at the Burlington Coat Factory, but police found the robbers and recovered the purse in a wooded area, police said.

New Yorker Lukasz Zbylut started his American education in the seventh grade after emigrating from Poland .

Maybe he was trying to beat the heat. A Brooklyn restaurant cook is accused of stealing frozen lobster tails by stuffing them down his pants.

A "kid-friendly" sex shop, complete with baby changing facilities, has opened in New York to the outrage of local residents.

U.S. prosecutors are preparing to file criminal charges against managers of two Bear Stearns hedge funds whose collapse helped kick off the credit crisis last year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

NEW CITY - A county jury has acquitted a Brooklyn woman of causing her friend's death but convicted her of driving drunk.

Now that the keys to the Flatiron Building are held in Italy and the Chrysler Building may soon be owned by investment from Abu Dhabi, New York's iconic skyline seems to be increasingly under the ownership of ...

PLAINFIELD -Derek A. Eccleston of Plainfield, known as Pa Stinka Dink Caladosha Woo Woo, Dink, Stink, born in Brooklyn, N.Y. on Oct.

Mugging victim Patricia McGowan is escorted by police from her home in Staten Island Friday.

Six people, most of them over the age of 70, died in their homes of heat-related causes after days of scorching temperatures, the medical examiner's office said Wednesday.

Hanna Flame, who lived in Highland Park for 40 years, died Monday afternoon, June 9, 2008, in her home in Manhattan, where she had resided for the past six years.

A mugger hit a woman so hard she fell past the wrought iron gate and landed on the pavement. In full view of a video camera, the thief followed his victim in, grabbed her purse and ran.

CBS station WCBS-TV obtained surveillance footage of the vicious attack, which occurred Monday around 6:40 a.m. in Brooklyn, New York. The woman was accosted by the suspect shortly after parking her car.

The victim is a 62-year-old math enrichment teacher. She hasn't been back to work since the incident.

My first sighting of the new Brooklyn Ikea and I think: Omigod! A giant blue and yellow space station has landed on the banks of Red Hook.

The mastermind behind a ghoulish scheme that had Staten Island ties and involved looting hundreds of corpses and selling the parts for millions of dollars apologized today to families of the victims and tissue ...

Doorman Richie Randazzo's $5 million lottery windfall has opened doors he's never imagined.

Oh boy: Boy George at the RS Lounge nightclub in London today. The Culture Club singer will be performing for the sanitation workers he worked with while he was doing community service Boy George is returning ...

The Department of Buildings has filed administrative charges against controversial Brooklyn architect Robert Scarano , alleging that he made false or misleading statements on applications submitted to the ...

William Lattarulo had a simple reply for his laborers when they became concerned about a possible cave-in at his Brooklyn construction site in March, according to investigators: 'Don't worry about it.' But ...

New York City police say a woman has been struck and killed by a subway train in Brooklyn.

One of America's Most Wanted Fugitives was caught Wednesday in Elmira. E lmira police say McFadden was found hiding at a home at 708 East Clinton Street early Wednesday morning.

A state judge has ordered the governor, Senate and Assembly to raise the pay of all the state's judges within the next 90 days.

Six New York City residents died from complications due to the four-day long heat wave that plagued the city this week, CBS 2 has learned.

A construction contractor has been indicted on a manslaughter charge in connection with a Brooklyn wall collapse that killed a worker in March.

A significant number of women worrying about cancer may be experiencing sleep disturbances, even without a breast cancer diagnosis, according to a research abstract that will be presented by Amita Dharawat, MD, ...

Doctors at a downtown Brooklyn hospital that's saddled with massive debt and outdated equipment said Sunday they're afraid the facility will be shuttered.

Prosecutors say a Brooklyn man and woman have confessed to beating a 3-year-old boy who died in their care just blocks from where a malnourished, severely abused girl was killed in a case that spurred calls for ...

Drink lots of water and try to stay out of the sun - the metro area is about to roast.

IRVINGTON - A local domestic violence services agency is in talks with rapper and author Queen Pen to form an alliance to aid abuse victims and advocate for tougher laws to protect them.

A manhole fire and a separate power outage snarled subway service in a swath of Brooklyn on Sunday, shutting down all or part of some subway lines and causing major delays on others, officials said.

A man reputed to be the consigliere of New York's Gambino crime family has pleaded guilty to extortion charges.

Joseph Corozzo was one of 62 alleged mafia associates rounded up in February and charged with a long list of crimes dating back to the 1970s.

On Friday he pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn to charges that he conspired to extort a Staten Island cement company. Prosecutors dropped a charge that he was involved in drug trafficking.

The plea bargain calls for him to serve between four and five years in prison.

Twenty-seven people have been indicted on charges of trafficking in millions of dollars in untaxed cigarettes taken from Virginia for resale in Michigan and New York, where the nation's highest cigarette taxes ...

They are an unquestionably bizarre set of Internet search terms: Mange. Human mold.

Saying wrongful convictions undermine public confidence in the justice system, the New York State Bar Association president has established a task force of 22 professors, former judges, prosecutors, defense ...

A midtown Manhattan skyscraper that is home to The New York Times became the site of twin daredevil stunts Thursday, with two men scaling the 52-story office tower just hours apart.

BROOKLYN, N.Y. You would think a sex shop might not go over well in a neighborhood with families and small children.

A drug dealer who attacked a New York prosecutor in court has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars on drug charges.

New York Post reports: Angry New Yorkers had smoke coming out of their ears yesterday as they began paying the highest cigarette taxes in the country - and the price of a pack reached as high as $12. The ...

A reputed acting mob boss and eight other suspected gangsters were arrested Wednesday on federal charges accusing them of coast-to-coast Mafia crimes ranging from gangland hits and a fur coat heist in New York ...

Police say they are investigating a shooting that left three men wounded near a subway train station in Brooklyn early this morning.

Comedian Adam Sandler has played a wedding singer, a waterboy, a firefighter pretending to be gay, and the devil's son.

ALBANY -- The national Alliance Defense Fund filed a lawsuit today in the Bronx to halt Gov.

On Saturday, the highlight of the Peoples' Accountable Development Summit--part of the Fifth Avenue Committee 's South Brooklyn Accountable Development Initiative--was a pledge from elected officials to uphold ...

In this densely populated city, residents compete for jobs, apartments, subway seats, taxicabs, even treadmills in the gym.

Police say a construction worker is dead after falling four stories off a scaffold in Brooklyn.

Sal Carbone is a pizza-eating machine, any way he slices it. Organizers said the Brooklyn man wolfed down a tad more than 15 slices to beat his own record, 15, in a competitive chowdown Sunday.

Until the early 20th century, the inlet that constitutes Mill Basin was largely swampland.