Brooklyn’s Woodhull Hospital remains closed after a power outage caused by rain on Friday forced the evacuation of more than 100 patients over the weekend. The hospitalized people were transferred to other health centers and hospitals in the city. Critical patients were transferred on Friday night and around 120 other patients on Saturday. The Con … Read more
The city’s new composting program rolls out today throughout Brooklyn Borough. Residents can now place their organic waste curbside the same day they recycle it. Waste such as leaves, food scraps and food-soiled paper should be placed inside a brown compost bin. The city started the initiative in Queens earlier this year. It will expand … Read more
The streets of a section of Brooklyn are filled with joy this afternoon with one of the largest and oldest street festivals in the city. This is the forty-eighth annual edition of the “Atlantic Antic,” which extends along ten blocks of Atlantic Avenue. More than 500 stalls with local vendors will offer food, clothing, crafts … Read more
Police are seeking to find the whereabouts of the person responsible for a shooting that claimed the life of one man and left two others injured in Brooklyn. It happened shortly after 5 p.m. on Saturday near the Sumner Houses public housing complex in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The man was shot in the head and taken to … Read more
After the dangerous flooding due to the intense rain on Friday, which hit our city, generating delays in the subway and the suspension of some lines, the transportation system operated regularly this Saturday. Ramón Rosario, resident of the sector says: “I had to stay home all day yesterday. Today, it is possible.” From the Union … Read more
NEW YORK – A woman, a teenager and a dog were found dead in a Brooklyn apartment building, according to police sources. Police were called shortly after 2:30 p.m. Monday to an apartment on New York Avenue near Avenue D in East Flatbush, police sources said. Responding officers found a 37-year-old woman face up in … Read more
A woman and her teenage daughter and a dog were found dead in an apartment in a building in Brooklyn, according to police reports. The 37-year-old mother had injuries to her face and head due to the stabbing and the 14-year-old girl was hit in the head. Police were called shortly after 2:30 p.m. Monday … Read more
What you should know A Brooklyn man was charged with murder for beating his girlfriend’s two-year-old son to death while she was at work, the local district attorney’s office said. Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced Sunday that Latrell Lewis, 23, was charged with second-degree murder, first-degree murder, second-degree murder and endangering the welfare of … Read more
NEW YORK — A teenager was stabbed and two others were slashed near a Brooklyn high school just as classes were ending, police said. The incident occurred shortly before 3 pm near PS 156 in Brownsville, according to police. The 18-year-old stabbed was taken to hospital with serious injuries, police said, while two other youths … Read more
What to know Authorities say the driver of an MTA bus crashed into at least three parked cars in the Mill Basin neighborhood around 10 a.m. Surveillance video captured the early morning crash along Avenue U and Mill Avenue. A B47 bus was caught on video crashing and smashing into parked cars, knocking down at … Read more