Sep. 12, 2024 By Adam Daly A Texas man has been charged with sex trafficking and other offenses after allegedly forcing two teenage girls into prostitution in East New York and branding their faces with his nickname, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced Thursday. Donald Roberson, 29, of Dallas, appeared in Brooklyn Supreme Court…
Sep. 12, 2024 By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil Brooklyn came together this week to honor the memory of those lost on Sept. 11, 2001 with a series of poignant commemorations, memorials and tributes spread across the borough. From solemn ceremonies at the Brooklyn Heights Promenade to reflective gatherings at local firehouses and parks, the borough…
Sep. 12, 2024 By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil A 74-year-old man was fatally struck by the driver of a white SUV in a hit-and-run crash Wednesday night in Bay Ridge. Authorities say the incident occurred just after 8:55 p.m. as the victim was crossing Ridge Boulevard at Bay Ridge Avenue, walking west to east in…
Sep. 11, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen In 2004, Brooklynite Rony Vardi opened her first store on Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg. Catbird, in the beginning, sold an eclectic assortment of items: clothes, art supplies, candles, and jewelry. Twenty years later, the business has found its niche and flourished. Catbird now has seven — soon to…
Sep. 11, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith It was standing room only, and barely any of that, at a heated two and a half hour public hearing on the Arrow Linen rezoning application in South Slope held by Community Board 7 Monday night, where 29 residents had the chance to speak to the crowd and…
Sep. 11, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell A Brooklyn firehouse honored several of its own on the 23rd anniversary of 9/11, one of many commemorations taking place across Brooklyn and New York City on Wednesday. Members of Engine Company 214 and Tower Ladder 111 in Bedford-Stuyvesant remembered five firefighters who were killed during the terrorist…
Sep. 11, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen The city is moving to install a protected bike lane on a 1.5 mile stretch of Bedford Avenue, the Department of Transportation announced Tuesday, more than a year after the agency first pitched the idea. Work will start this week to transform the existing painted bike lane between…
Sep. 11, 2024 By Adam Daly Federal prosecutors on Tuesday announced the indictment of seven alleged members of the Folk Nation gang, accusing them of involvement in a 2022 drive-by shooting in Canarsie that left one man hospitalized. The four-count indictment, unsealed Sept. 10 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New…
Sep. 10, 2024 By Jada Camille A ferry could finally be in the works for Coney Island. It depends on whether the city council greenlights a bill introduced by Council Member Justin Brannan that would require city agencies to conduct a study on a potential ferry service in the nabe. The proposed law would…
Sep. 10, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway’s aging triple cantilever has been patched and repaired, and the city is moving now to further protect it from further damage. For the next two weekends, a small section of the Staten Island-bound BQE in Brooklyn Heights will be down to one lane as the…