BROOKLYN, NY - Police are seeking two suspects who robbed an 18-year-old man after threatening him and simulating a firearm earlier this month in the Bay Ridge area. The incident occurred around 6:30 p.m. on November 15 near 85th Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway, according to the NYPD. Investigators said the victim was approached by two unidentified men who demanded his belongings and pretended to have a gun.
IT's Thanksgiving, and we are thankful for another completed station renovation here at church Avenue, said Lieber, who lives close by to the station. This is a busy station, folks. I'm going through it every day. The new ADA elevators are always the headline when we do these projects, but we did a ton of other work to upgrade the station.
BROOKLYN, NY - A man is wanted after a violent robbery inside a Fourth Avenue bodega left a store clerk injured during the Thursday morning rush. The suspect entered the shop around 8:50 a.m., grabbed medicine from the counter, and fought off an employee who tried to stop him. Police said the robber repeatedly punched the 39-year-old worker before fleeing south on Fourth Avenue. EMS treated the victim at the scene for facial injuries as detectives reviewed surveillance footage from inside the store.
On the first leg of a back-to-back, Toronto had Brooklyn on their schedule, and although Toronto ultimately got the win, Brooklyn made them work for it, harder than you would expect from a team with their level of talent. Toronto showed poise last night during the closing stretches of the game, where it seemed that Brooklyn was going to overtake them, and get the upset. Toronto did what good teams have to be able to do, and that's battle through adversity and win close games.
Indian Larry hog-shop owner Bobby Seeger told The Post that his business will simply be relocating after the building that currently houses it is sold - with him eyeing a new spot in Williamsburg just two blocks away. "It's never going to go away. We'll relocate," Seeger said of his business - named after Larry Desmedt, a k a Indian Larry, the late motorcycle builder and stunt rider made famous by the Discovery Channel. "What are you going to do? You can dance, tap, cry," Seeger said of critics.
When I first joined the Housing Authority back in the '80s, my dad insisted I sign up for early retirement. At the time, the extra contributions to my pension seemed expensive, but my dad assured me the investment was worthwhile. A lot could change between 55 and 62, he said, and being able to retire early would give me choices.
"There is still so much work to be done, and I feel the urgency of this moment every day. Our country faces crises on multiple fronts. Every day the Trump administration is working to undermine civil rights and our democracy," Velázquez said in a statement, "At the same time, the American Dream is slipping further away for working people as wealth inequality worsens and life becomes less affordable. But I believe in the resiliency of the American people and the ability of a new generation of leaders who are ready for these great challenges."
A man was fatally stabbed Wednesday at a Brooklyn public housing building that houses a community center, according to NYPD officials. Officers found 48-year-old Kevin Coleman with multiple stab wounds at NYCHA's Langston Hughes Apartments in Brownsville around 5:30 p.m., officials said. The residential building contains a gathering space for seniors and other neighbors, according to the housing authority. First responders took Coleman to Brookdale Hospital in critical condition and he was later pronounced dead.
The development, which does not yet have a snappy name like its neighbors at 325 Kent and 1 Domino Square, will include more than 1,200 units - 315 of which will be earmarked as affordable. An additional 105 affordable units will be constructed "offsite," per zoning documents. A rezoning of the already-rezoned lot was approved by the City Council late last month, after Two Trees sought to make adjustments to the design it had pitched in 2014.
But what stood out most about the free public charter school was that it offered a high-quality education in an all-girls setting designed to build confidence, leadership, and academic ambition without the social pressures typically found in a co-ed setting. "I chose this school because only girls come, and you know sometimes boys are a little more mischievous, and they don't focus on what the teacher is saying in class and everything," Avila said.
The idea of a magnificent bridge to cross the East River and join Brooklyn and Manhattan was proposed by engineer John Roebling in 1852, but it took until 1869, after the Civil War, for everything to line up and work to start. Completing the bridge took more than a decade thanks to a host of setbacks and problems. It wasn't completed until 1883 and on opening day, May 24, people were finally able to walk or ride from Brooklyn to Manhattan and back.
I am proud of the Prison Reform Omnibus bill that passed at the end of session. New York's prisons have been plagued by a systemic pattern of violence toward incarcerated individuals, with little accountability or oversight. Within the last year, correction officers murdered two incarcerated men. The civil rights of incarcerated New Yorkers are routinely violated. The situation in our state's prisons is an emergency. This bill is a crucial step toward ending this violence.
You have the snacks, the drinks and your comfy spot on the couch. But then you turn on the TV and excitement shifts to irritation. Where's the *bleeping* game? Everyone's had that moment. The endless channel surfing. The constant app switching. The login-password juggling. And suddenly, you've missed the start of the game - or worse, the play of the day.
In October, the average rent in Brooklyn reached $4,340 a month, a leap of 8.5% year over year. The median rent in Brooklyn climbed to $3,850, a 6.9% increase over the same period last year. Perhaps most tellingly, the price per square foot grew 6.7% in the year period to $61.51, according to the October rental market report prepared by appraiser Jonathan Miller of Miller Samuel for Douglas Elliman.
