May. 17, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
The owner of a Nassau County construction company was convicted of criminally negligent homicide on Tuesday, nearly five years after a wall built by his company crumbled and killed a 5-year-old girl in Bushwick.
Apr. 22, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell
An all-hands fire tore through a Bath Beach apartment building on Sunday night after a resident said she dropped a candle inside her apartment.
Apr. 9, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith
An early racially integrated school in what was once the free Black community of Weeksville but is now Crown Heights will not become affordable housing as planned after all, but instead will be converted into a homeless shelter.
Mar. 22, 2024 By Adam Daly
Borough Park’s Jewish community is mourning the loss of the neighborhood’s first and oldest surviving synagogue after developers tore down the historic building on Sunday.
Mar. 6, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith
Hanson Place Central United Methodist Church, on the corner of Fort Greene’s St. Felix Street and Hanson Place, is in contract to be sold to developer Watermark Capital Group for $15 million, court records show.
Feb. 21, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
Five days after it was unexpectedly forced to close, Saint Vitus Bar in Greenpoint is still quiet.
Feb. 2, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell & Emily Davenport
A construction worker was reportedly killed following a building collapse in Borough Park on Friday afternoon.
Jan. 11, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
Three buildings at Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters in Crown Heights have been hit with vacate orders after the discovery of an illegal tunnel beneath the complex, according to the Department of Buildings.
Nov. 20, 2023 By Adam Daly
Firefighters quickly doused an all-hands fire that broke out on the first floor of a residential building in East Flatbush Sunday morning.
Nov. 20, 2023 By Anna Bradley-Smith
The city has placed a full vacate order on the large 1890s Romanesque Revival church on the corner of Bushwick Avenue and Cornelia Street in Bushwick due to its crumbling roof and other conditions, shutting down a thrift store that had been operating inside and throwing the building’s future into question.