Announcements
It took over 4 hours to battle the five-alarm fire. (Photo: FDNY)DYKER HEIGHTS – A five-alarm fire ripped through three homes late Saturday night, injuring 12 firefighters and displacing families. On Saturday, September 12, just before midnight, a fire blazed through 1330 74th Street and then spread to the two
Bay Ridge
The Brother’s Bagels, a family-owned bagel shop in Bay Ridge, is picking up the pieces after three men came in and, unprovoked, tore apart much of the shop, creating over $13,000 in damages. The incident took place this past Friday, after the shop had already closed for the
Announcements
Brooklyn Immigrant Community Support – Distribution at Good Shepherd Church. (Photo via Rathkopf Photography [https://www.rathkopf.com/], with permission) SOUTH BROOKLYN – One of the many communities that have been hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic are the undocumented. Because of their status, this group of hardworking people (most of them
Bushwick
BUSHWICK – A member of the Bushwick Food Coop [https://www.bushwickfoodcoop.org/] walking by the space in the wee hours of the morning on July 3rd discovered the devastating fire – which is estimated to have started around 3:00 am. While the direct cause of the fire is still being
Big Story
A six-alarm fire ripped through 702 44th Street in Sunset Park, Brooklyn this evening, injuring several civilians and firefighters. Hundreds will be left homeless in this rare daylight fire. (Photo: Todd Maisel/Bklyner)SUNSET PARK – Over 100 Brooklynites were displaced from their Sunset Park home at 702 44th Street after
Central Brooklyn
WINDSOR TERRACE – The family of a Windsor Terrace woman who passed away unexpectedly on Monday has set up a GoFundMe page [https://www.gofundme.com/t4auh-tonyas-funeral-expenses] for her seven-year-old twins. Tonya Muro via us.iearn.org [http://us.iearn.org/news/in-memory-of-tonya-muro] Tonya Muro was the Executive Director of iEARN-USA
Food & Drink
Photo via Putnam’s Pub & Cooker via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BQBq67AgQIy/?taken-by=putnamspub]Neighbors, patrons, and fans of Clinton Hill’s beloved Putnam’s Pub & Cooker [http://putnamspub.com/] are pitching in to help out the bar’s staff while the building undergoes extensive repairs
Central Brooklyn
(Photo via Rafael Lopez Jr. / RLJRNews.com)Ivanka Trump, entrepreneur, author, and daughter of present-elect Donald Trump, made a tax-deductible $1,000 donation to a Gofundme campaign [https://www.gofundme.com/the-sassoon-7-project] honoring seven children who died in a hot-plate fire in Midwood last year. [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2015/
News
The Daily News dug this photo up from Jaden’s mother’s Facebook page.What happened to Jaden Jordan [/jaden-jordan-toddler-life-support-pronounced-dead/], allegedly at the hands of his mother’s boyfriend, Salvatore Lucchesse, 24, can only be described as vicious, senseless, and tragic. The details of this heart-wrenching story have raised more
Announcements
(Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)Community support is pouring in via a fundraiser [https://www.gofundme.com/anthonynazaire] to help cover funeral costs for Anthony Nazaire, a 19-year-old Flatbush resident who was stabbed to death on the Cornell University campus last week [/blog/crime/community-mourns-flatbush-teen-stabbed-death-cornell-university/]. Nazaire’s mother, Katia Toussaint,
fort greene
Film by Steve de Sève of BRIC TV. Please note all information about fundraising and awareness is located at the bottom of this article. It’s an all too familiar fear that haunts parents in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York City — virtually anywhere on the planet. A miscalculated swerve, a
Neighbors
Film by Steve de Sève of BRIC TV. Please note all information about fundraising and awareness is located at the bottom of this article. It’s an all too familiar fear that haunts parents in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York City — virtually anywhere on the planet. A miscalculated swerve, a
News
Intersection of 3rd Avenue and 7th Street where the May 21 hit and run incident took place. (Screenshot via Google Maps [https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6726473,-73.9899738,3a,75y,306.49h,82.71t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s1llh98xekM2h1_zaVKTLNg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1] )The driver responsible
fort greene
(Courtesy Flickr/Laser Burner [https://www.flickr.com/photos/rhodamine/3461574750/in/photolist-6e7BNc-6ebJPu-NFJ8q-6gTtzh-2aCcCX-76uwua-CAPYdt-xskRQ9-5GneKg-5GrwBj-db6xG7-6J8HEd-G4qxy] )A heroic bystander was shot in the head while trying to stop a woman from shooting into a crowd of women and children outside the Farragut Houses, reports [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/cops-hunt-gun-toting-woman-shot-crowd-brooklyn-article-1.2682172?utm_
community
Tanya Kinne with her fiancé Chris Kovacs were struck in a hit and run on Saturday, May 21 on 3rd Avenue. (Courtesy of the Kinne/Kovacs family)A pedestrian severely injured due to a hit and run incident [/blog/transportation/pedestrian-hospitalized-green-taxi-flees-hit-run-gowanus/] on Saturday, May 21 in Gowanus returned to her
Bensonhurst
This could be the miracle 12-year-old Julia Bruzzese was looking for. Earlier this year, the Saint Bernadette School [http://stbernadetteschool.org/] student, who is fighting Lyme disease and has not walked in a year, shared a special moment with Pope Francis [/wheelchair-bound-bath-beach-girl-finds-hope-when-she-meets-the-pope/#.VmkHHGSDGko] during his visit to New York City.