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Detective Texts Photo of Dead Body to Alleged Victim to Sexual Assault

FORT GREENE – An alleged victim of sexual assault says he received a photograph of his attacker’s dead body. The sender: the NYPD Special Victims Division detective responsible for his case. Motions filed in the murder trial of David Keegan Riotto Haigh [/he-killed-the-man-who-seduced-him-was-it-murder-or-self-defense/], who is accused of murder in the

Bed Stuy

A Date Went Terribly Wrong. Was it Murder—Or Self-Defense?

NYS Supreme Court (Photo by Liena Zagare/Bklyner)FORT GREENE – Last April, David Keegan Riotto Haigh drove from his sister’s house outside Reading, Pennsylvania, to visit a friend in New York City. There he would connect with James Koron Johnson, who went by his middle name, on a gay

Bed Stuy

Calisthenics Competition Braves Cold in Bed-Stuy

Roy Isaac Jr. of “The United Fitness Squad” does a pull-up while competing in the heavyweight division at the 2018 Winter Reps competition in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn on February 17, 2018.BEDFORD STUYVESANT – An outdoor calisthenics competition brought a burgeoning online subculture back to its Brooklyn roots as Pull Up Park

News

Trial Date Set for Suspect Claiming Self-Defense in Fort Greene Slaying

FORT GREENE – The trial of David Keegan Riotto Haigh, a Philadelphia man charged with stabbing James Koron Johnson to death in the Ingersoll Houses last spring, will begin on April 30 in the Kings County Supreme Court. The case first attracted media attention from details tailor-made for sensationalist headlines. The

Big Story

Flatbush Council Race Splits Democratic Party Into Establishment Versus Reform as Election Day Approaches

FLATBUSH – A surprise endorsement of Brian Cunningham [https://www.cunninghamforcouncil.com/] by the Working Families Party [http://workingfamilies.org/] has shaken up the 40th district council race in central Brooklyn. After representing parts of Crown Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Kensington, and Flatbush since 2007, Dr. Mathieu Eugene [http://www.mathieueugene.

Business

ONE WAY – In Crown Heights, Some Feel Armory Decision Out of Community’s Hands

Man walks by The Bedford-Union Armory (Ben Foldy / BKLYNER)CROWN HEIGHTS – As plans to develop the Bedford-Union Armory work through the city’s approval process, neighbors sense an inevitability to a project some feel has ignored their concerns. Leveraging private development to address New York’s housing shortage, the armory

Central Brooklyn

A Green Grows in Brooklyn

Jabari Brisport (l), Green Party candidate for New York’s 35 th City Council District, gives his campaign flyer to Alex Asher (r) as Gabriella Agranat-Getz looks on at the Fort Greene Park Greenmarket on Sept. 30, 2017. (Ben Foldy / BKLYNER)On a fall Saturday at the Greenmarket in Fort

community

Clinton Book Signing a Family Affair

Clinton is greeted by the co-owners of Greenlight Books, Rebecca Fitting (l) and Jessica Stockton Bagnulo (r). (Ben Foldy/BKLYNER)FORT GREENE – When Hillary Clinton signed copies of her new book at Greenlight Books in Fort Greene on Tuesday night, it was an emotional chance for many parents and children

Arts & Culture

J’Ouvert 2017: Safer, But A Little Too Bright, Neighbors Say (PHOTOS)

The leader of a costumed troupe speaks with a police officer manning the checkpoint at the beginning of the parade route. (Photo: Ben Foldy/BKLYNER)In response to a number of high-profile incidents of violence over the past few years [/tag/jouvert/], this year’s J’Ouvert celebration in Crown