Police & Fire
The heartbreak continues surrounding two-year-old Melody Pheng’s death this past Sunday, March 13, which has now been ruled a homicide by the city medical examiner. Pheng was found “unresponsive” [/police-fire/sunset-park-toddler-dies-family-bathtub/] in her family’s bathtub in a home on 47th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues and later
Police & Fire
In a heartbreaking discovery, a two-year-old Sunset Park girl was found “unconscious and unresponsive” in a bathtub inside her family’s home on 47th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues this weekend; she was later declared dead at Maimonides Hospital. It was around 8:26pm on Sunday, March 13 when
Police & Fire
A violent rapist is on the loose and cops are hoping that we can help ID and find him. The suspect reportedly raped a 29-year-old woman at knife-point in the lobby of her apartment building on 50th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues on the border between Sunset Park and
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Police & Fire
Photo by Alvimann [ http://mrg.bz/VErTdX].A little girl in a stroller was struck by a car near 51st Street and Fourth Avenue at around 12:30pm this afternoon and she was rushed to Lutheran Medical Center with “bruising on the lower part of her body,” according to police
Business
Image via pedrojperez [http://mrg.bz/qFNqNS].An offshore wind farm project that would generate clean energy and power for New York City might be in the works and project managers are considering the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal on the Sunset Park waterfront as a potential “staging ground,” according to
Business
Photo via Google MapsA Sunset Park restaurant manager has been arrested for trying to bribe an investigator posing as a health inspector. Wei Dong, 26, was charged with bribery and other charges after he identified himself as the manager of Funny BBQ Bar [http://www.yelp.com/biz/funny-bbq-brooklyn-3] (818
Business
Did you know there’s an app to help you make money by utilizing your driveway, and to help you easily find parking? Parklee, a parking mobile app launched Nov. 2015, has revolutionized the face of parking. This was created in order to optimize the timely process of big city
Police & Fire
Source: Brooklyn District Attorney’s OfficeSunset Park man was sentenced to two to four years in prison for posing as an attorney and charging thousands of dollars for immigration services which he failed to deliver, announced Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson today. Howard Seidler, 70, of 51st Street in Sunset
Arts & Culture
THERE WAS A TIME when the world was full of beauty and wonder. When heroes split mountains and swam with dragons. When divine beings walked the earth and emperors ruled under the will of heaven. When people lived in harmony with the universe and believed in a connection between all
Arts & Culture
Photo courtesy of Kelly AndersonKelly Anderson’s acclaimed 2012 film “My Brooklyn” [http://www.mybrooklynmovie.com/] follows her journey as a “Brooklyn gentrifier” trying to understand the forces reshaping the various neighborhoods she has lived in since 1988. The filmmaker collaborated with Allison Dean, a journalist and urban planner, on
News
Image via Google Maps.A recent New York Times article highlighted five of New York City’s “Next Hot Neighborhoods” [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/realestate/new-yorks-next-hot-neighborhoods.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0] and, unsurprisingly, they flagged Sunset Park West — aka the narrow strip of