Bushwick
Patricia Lopez announces the lawsuit against the waste transfer station in Bushwick. (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)BUSHWICK – Cleanup North Brooklyn [http://www.cleanupnbk.org/], a grassroots community group, announced today that they would be filing a lawsuit against a nearby waste transfer facility as part of their ongoing effort to improve
Announcements
Photo: Nicholas Strini, Property SharkBROOKLYN HEIGHTS – Nine tenants filed a lawsuit claiming they were overcharged in rent-regulated apartments owned by Donald Trump’s son in law’s family company, Kushner Cos. According to Crain’s New York Business [paywall] [http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20170815/REAL_ESTATE/170819933/kushner-cos-overcharged-brooklyn-tenants-lawsuit-claims] , the
Bensonhurst
(Photo: Wahlburgers Coney Island [https://www.facebook.com/WahlburgersConeyIsland/photos/pcb.1615974942010222/1615974918676891/?type=1&theater] / Facebook)The Wahlburgers franchise, owned by actors Mark and Donnie Wahlberg and their brother Paul, has recently been sued for wage theft and violating state and federal labor laws at its Coney Island
Business
560 Coney Island Avenue at the corner of Beverley Road. (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)The national chain 7-Eleven is hauling two Brooklyn convenience stores to court for trademark infringement, reports the NY Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/7-eleven-sues-knock-off-stores-brooklyn-called-z-11-11-7-article-1.2726776] , claiming their signs are too-close-for-comfort to the
Education
Photo courtesy of Paypaul via FlickrA Kingsborough Community College professor has filed a lawsuit accusing top administrators of creating an culture of “systemic anti-Semitism” in which Jewish faculty were openly harassed and discriminated against. The lawsuit [http://thelawfareproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Lax_Complain_EDNY.pdf], first reported by
Bensonhurst
Coney Island Hospital, 2601 Ocean Parkway. (Source: Gregory Maizous)Three top officials are leaving their positions at Coney Island Hospital amid accusations that a botched diagnosis [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2016/02/medical-examiner-investigating-whether-botched-diagnosis-caused-grandmothers-death-at-coney-island-hospital/] earlier this year caused the death of a 47-year-old grandmother. New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation,
Bensonhurst
Assemblyman Cymbrowitz and Assemblyman Colton (Courtesy of Cymbrowitz’s Office) Residents of Gravesend’s Marlboro Houses will soon get $3 million in home improvements, Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz and Assemblyman William Colton have announced. The two lawmakers, who share representation of the 28-building NYCHA complex, made the joint announcement today at
Business
Popular photography retailer B&H is being sued by workers who allege discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, ethnicity, and gender while working in the company’s Brooklyn Navy Yard warehouse. According to the workers, B&H Foto and Electronics Corporation routinely promoted and paid higher
Neighbors
A judge’s gavel. (Photo: Joe Gratz [https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegratz/117048243/] / Flickr)Community Board 15 member Mitchell Shpelfogel, heir to a family real-estate fortune, is being sued by his former houseworker for unpaid wages, according to court documents posted online [http://www.scribd.com/doc/294291080/Mitchell-Shpelfogel]
b and a pork store
Source: Google MapsShe rejected their son’s advances, so she was fired. That is what one disgruntled employee is alleging in a Brooklyn federal lawsuit filed against the owners of B & A Pork Store [http://www.baporkstorebrooklyn.com/] (7818 13th Avenue). Stefania Termini, 20, says James Brannigan, whose father
1628 Church Avenue
A neighbor filed a lawsuit against Bobby’s Department Store [http://www.shopbobbys.com/] this week, charging that a manager allegedly broke the jaw of Lucky Michaels [http://luckymichaels.blogspot.com/], an activist well known in the city’s transgender community, during an assault outside the Church Avenue store last
lawsuit
Photo via Luna Park NYC [https://www.flickr.com/photos/lunaparknyc/8725607599/] via FlickrA Bensonhurst couple is suing Coney Island’s Luna Park [http://lunaparknyc.com/] saying its employees failed to accommodate a religious request and then assailed them with racial slurs before booting them from the park. According to
lawsuit
Source: Facebook/Andrew CuomoGovernor Andrew Cuomo called a special election today to fill the seat of former Congressman Michael Grimm, setting an election date for May 5. Though Grimm officially resigned [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2014/12/congressman-michael-grimm-will-resign/] amid charges of fraud over a month ago, Cuomo took his time
brawl
Brooklyn Supreme Court (Source: afagen [https://www.flickr.com/photos/afagen/] /Flickr)Leo the English bulldog was just coming to his mama’s defense when he bit their neighbor, a judge has ruled. A lawsuit charging that the dog of Nicole Ranieri, 42, sank its teeth into the arm of
Assemblywoman Rhoda Jacobs
A lawsuit filed by Michele Adolphe [http://www.scribd.com/doc/238672371/Michele-Adolphe-Files-Lawsuit-To-Remove-Rodneyse-Bichotte-From-Ballot] , a candidate running for the 42nd Assembly District (which covers Ditmas Park, Flatbush, and Midwood), to remove Rodneyse Bichotte [http://www.rodneysebichotte.com/], a challenger endorsed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, from the ballot for next Tuesday’
2007 emmons ave
A New York court has ordered Faberge Lounge (2007 Emmons Avenue) to pay $25,000 and cease using its current name after the restaurant was successfully sued by Faberge Limited, the luxury European jeweler. The restaurant’s owners were also ordered to alter its storefront design, which the court determined