Category: Brooklyn

The 57-page federal corruption indictment of Mayor Eric Adams begins not with hizzoner’s alleged misdeeds at City Hall, but at Brooklyn Borough Hall.  “In 2014, Eric Adams, the defendant, became Brooklyn Borough President,” the document reads. “Thereafter, for nearly a decade, Adams sought and accepted improper valuable benefits, such as luxury international travel, including from…

Paramedics tend to a fisherman who rescued a man from the Canarsie Pier. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell A fisher helped to save a man who fell into the Canarsie Pier on Tuesday morning. According to authorities, the victim fell into the water at 10:40 a.m. on Sept. 24. Witnesses say that the victim was with…

Tarnisha Woolard decries that her son, 33-year-old Christian Emile, was shot in the back as he attempted to run away. Photo courtesy of Tarnisha Woolard The mother of Christian Emile, a man whom police fatally shot in Brooklyn earlier this year, denounced newly released surveillance footage on the NYPD’s YouTube channel showing him being gunned…

Huge gantry cranes loading a container ship at the Brooklyn Marine Terminal in 2021. Photo via Getty Images Just in time for Climate Week NYC, elected officials announced on Monday new federal funding to revitalize the waterfront Brooklyn Marine Terminal (BMT). U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman said the city received a whopping $163.8 million grant from…

File image: The 46-year-old man was struck by a vehicle on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway near 86th Street EnvatoElements/WireStock A 46-year-old man was fatally struck by the driver of a pickup truck in Bay Ridge on Saturday morning, according to police. The NYPD Highway District Collision Investigation Squad determined that the crash occurred around 5:30…

Detectives are investigating after a man was shot in the face in Clinton Hill on Saturday. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell A man is lucky be alive after being shot in the face on Saturday afternoon in Clinton Hill. Officers from the 88th Precinct responded to a 911 call just before 2 p.m. reporting a shooting…

An empty yellow school bus caught fire in Canarsie on the morning of Sept. 5. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell Brooklyn’s school bus fleet was one short on the first day of school after a fire broke out on board an empty bus in Canarsie. The squat yellow bus was parked in a driveway beside a…

A mass shooting rocked Brooklyn’s West Indian Day Parade on Monday, wounding five people — including two with life-threatening injuries, authorities said. Photo by Gabriele Holtermann NYPD brass defended Wednesday their response to Monday’s mass shooting that wounded four and killed one at Brooklyn’s West Indian American Day Parade, along with the decision to let…

Brooklyn detectives need the public’s help in finding the cold-hearted suspect who attempted to strangle a woman inside an apartment building last week. Photo via Google Maps/Inset courtesy of NYPD Brooklyn detectives need the public’s help in finding the cold-hearted suspect who attempted to strangle a woman inside an apartment building last week. The NYPD…

Over a hundred goldfish are in a makeshift ‘pond’ at Tompkins Avenue and Hancock Street in Bed-Stuy. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell Bikini Bottom has come to Bed-Stuy, and not everyone is thrilled. About two weeks ago, a fire hydrant at the corner of Hancock Street and Tompkins Avenue started leaking, filling a pit in the…