Feb. 20, 2025 By Bill Parry The 16-year-old boy who allegedly shot and killed a Brooklyn cheerleader inside a Holliswood home on Saturday, Feb. 15, is being held without bail after he made his first court appearance on Monday night. The teenager, who was not identified because he is a minor, was arraigned in…
Feb. 20, 2025 By Adam Daly A Bed-Stuy man who pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing social justice advocate Ryan Carson in an unprovoked 2023 attack was sentenced Wednesday to 20 years to life in prison. Brian Dowling, who was 18 at the time of the killing, accepted a plea deal during a Jan. 22…
Feb. 20, 2025 By Carrene Gepilano The Boy Diva is about to take on her biggest opponent, Randy Summers, her ex-boyfriend. On Valentine’s Day, more than 250 people came out to watch pro-wrestling drag queens take to the mat at A Matter of Pride’s Fight Night at Strong Rope Brewery in Red Hook. The…
Feb. 20, 2025 By Lauren Rapp For the second time, a man has been arraigned and charged in connection to a stolen deed of a three-story Fort Greene house valued at over $2 million. Long Island resident Danny Noble, 55, allegedly fraudulently transferred the title of the three-story house at 71 Carlton Ave. in September…
Feb. 20, 2025 By Adam Daly Coney Island is set to undergo a sweeping transformation under new city plans to bring 1,500 mixed-income homes to the People’s Playground, alongside substantial investments in the iconic Riegelmann Boardwalk, utilities, and other community amenities. The Abe Stark Sports Center will also undergo a $42 million renovation, including…
Feb. 19, 2025 By Adam Daly New York Cares distributed over 500 warm winter coats to Sunset Park residents in need on Sunday, Feb. 16, as part of its 36th Annual Coat Drive. The event, held in partnership with the Chinese-American Planning Council, took place during a Lunar New Year celebration at Our Lady…
Feb. 19, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell A three-alarm fire consumed a Bushwick church on Wednesday morning. The fire started at the more than century-old Iglesia Pentecostal Arca Cristiana at 1155 Halsey Street at around 10:30 a.m., and firefighters moved in “aggressively,” said FDNY Chief of Operations Kevin Woods. But with the…
Feb. 19, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Erica Price A Coney Island community health clinic is set to reopen in a new, permanent location in what NYC Health+Hospitals called a “significant milestone” for providing healthcare to the community. Hospital leaders, doctors, and elected officials including U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries gathered on Surf Avenue on…
Feb. 19, 2025 By Robert Pearl and Robert Pozarycki Flag-waving pro-Palestine and pro-Israel demonstrators clashed in Borough Park Tuesday night during a demonstration outside a real estate expo. The pro-Palestine activists, led by the Pal-Awda group, gathered near several synagogues, shouting inflammatory slogans such as “Settlers, go back home!” and “Zionists, go to hell!” …
Feb. 19, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen If the sidewalk shed around the Brooklyn Supreme Courthouse in Downtown Brooklyn were human, it might not be in Brooklyn anymore, but off at college, studying prelaw or engineering. That’s because it’s now 18 years old, having been erected around the 360 Adams St. courthouse in 2007. It’s…