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BKReader
2 weeks ago
Brooklyn

Neighborhood Profile: Bedford-Stuyvesant

Bedford-Stuyvesant has a rich history of influential African American figures.
Despite challenges like disinvestment, the neighborhood has produced successful personalities. [ more ]
BKReader
1 month ago
Brooklyn

Firefighters Rescue Two Men From Bed-Stuy Scaffolding Collapse

Firefighters rescued two civilians after a scaffold collapsed in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Victims were freed and rushed to hospitals in serious but stable condition. [ more ]
BKReader
1 month ago
Brooklyn

Man Accused of Choking Friend to Death in Bed-Stuy

Accusations of fatal choking in Brooklyn
Involvement of acquaintances in the incident [ more ]
BKReader
2 months ago
Brooklyn

Bed-Stuy Resident to Empower Neighborhood Scholars

A new academic scholarship called the Jesse and Wendy's: Neighbor to My Neighbors Educational Advancement Scholarship has been launched in Brooklyn to support high school seniors in Bedford Stuyvesant.
The scholarship is named after Chelsea Bowens' parents, Jesse Bowens and "Wendy" Alberta Willis, who were deeply involved in their community. [ more ]
BKReader
2 months ago
Brooklyn

Assembly Member Zinerman Honors Brooklyn Change Makers

The Vibrant56 Change Makers Awards ceremony celebrated individuals in the Bedford Stuyvesant and Northern Crown Heights communities.
Assembly Member Stefani Zinerman emphasized the importance of preserving cultural communities and provided over $1.3 million in capital funding towards the Cultural Museum Of African Art. [ more ]
Brooklyn Paper
1 year ago
Brooklyn

Brooklyn gang member faces life in prison for 2015 murder * Brooklyn Paper

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A member of Brooklyn's 5-9 Brims gang is facing life in prison after being found guilty of murdering a member of a rival gang, prosecutors with the Eastern District of New York announced Monday.Marvin Pippins, also known as "Mukk," was convicted by a federal jury on April 24 for the murder of Sean Peart, a Real Ryte gang member, by shooting at him six times while he sat in a car in Bedford Stuyvesant on December 19, 2015.
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BKReader
2 months ago
Podcast

Macon Library Podcast Celebrates Bed-Stuy's Creative Pulse

Bed-Stuy Tea is a podcast created by librarians in Bedford Stuyvesant to highlight the community's rich culture and give recognition to local residents.
The podcast features interviews with local authors, illustrators, and business owners, showcasing their contributions to the neighborhood.
Bed-Stuy Tea serves as a platform for residents to share their narratives and contribute to the collective story of Bed Stuy and Brooklyn. [ more ]
Cbsnews
5 months ago
Business intelligence

Holiday shopping season kickoff continues across Tri-State Area with Small Business Saturday

Small businesses hope for boost in sales on Small Business Saturday as they continue to recover from the pandemic.
Locally owned businesses in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn and Harlem held Small Business Saturday events.
Small Business Saturday first started in 2010. [ more ]
New York Post
10 months ago
NYC real estate

Bed-Stuy townhouse with Vanessa Hudgens-inspired bathroom lists for $3.6M

A limestone multi-family townhouse in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn -- famed for its stock of townhouses -- has hit the market for $3.6 million.A limestone townhouse in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn has hit the market for $3.6 million.The two-family, 19th century property, at 255 Stuyvesant Ave., is more expensive than others in the area.
New York Post
1 year ago
NYC real estate

Shake Shack, Chipotle to open first locations in Bed-Stuy

The burger brand and the burrito chain shall soon cohabitate on the ground-floor of the same building.Bloomberg via Getty Images
There goes the flavorhood.Two upscale fast food chains will soon have a presence in central Brooklyn.The bell tolls for thee, current rent deals in Bedford-Stuyvesant: Locations for both Shake Shack and Chipotle are set to open within the neighborhood's boundaries.
New York Post
1 year ago
NYC real estate

'Crooklyn' brownstone back on the market for $4.5 million

A Brooklyn brownstone that was featured as the family home for Spike Lee 's semi-autobiographical 1994 film, "Crooklyn," is back on the market for $4.5 million.
www.amny.com
11 months ago
Brooklyn

Op-Ed | The people's money your money to improve your community | amNewYork

By Mayor Eric Adams Posted on May 23, 2023 Photo courtesy of Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office.Sign up for our amNY Sports email newsletter to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams Have you ever looked around your neighborhood and thoughtit would be great if we could have a community garden here, or maybe more afterschool programs for students, or special services for seniors?
Nytimes
1 year ago
New York City

How the Artistic Director of the Moth Spends Her Sundays

Catherine Burns, unsurprisingly, likes to read and remember people's stories, while running through Brooklyn, gardening and playing games with her family.
New York Daily News
1 year ago
Music

The Notorious B.I.G.'s 'Ready to Die' named greatest hip-hop album of all time

B.I.G. is the G.O.A.T.
The Notorious B.I.G.'s debut album, "Ready to Die," has been named the greatest hip-hop album of all time by Rolling Stone.
New York Daily News
1 year ago
Music

HEAR IT: 'New' track 'G.O.A.T' by Notorious B.I.G. released on eve of 50th birthday blitz

What would a Biggie birthday blitz be without new music?
Well, "newish," that is.
New York Post
1 year ago
New York City

Mom and two young daughters killed in NYC fire

Three people, including two children, were killed in a Brooklyn apartment fire early Friday morning, authorities said.Citizen
A mother and her two young daughters were killed when a fire ripped through their Brooklyn apartment early Friday, authorities said.The 40-year-old mom and her two kids, aged 8 and 10, were found inside the third-floor apartment on Gates Avenue near Tompkins Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where the fire broke out just after 5 a.m.
New York Post
1 year ago
New York City

NYC pizza shop worker shot during clash with possible would-be robber: cops

The victim, a 44-year-old worker at Rocco Pizza III, was shot in the leg by a suspect who may have tried to rob the shop, cops said.Wayne Carrington
A Brooklyn pizza shop employee was shot during a clash with a possible would-be robber late Tuesday, cops said.The 44-year-old male worker was inside Rocco Pizza III on Halsey Street near Throop Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 9:30 p.m. when the gunman blasted him in the left leg during a dispute, police said.
New York Post
1 year ago
New York City

Two NYC women killed in separate domestic assaults days apart: cops

Two Brooklyn women were killed in separate domestic assaults in their homes within three days of each other, police said Tuesday.
Kelly Kwak, 28, was strangled to death inside a first-floor apartment on Gates Avenue near Classon Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 9:40 a.m.Friday, authorities said.
New York Post
1 year ago
New York City

Off-duty cop charged with drunk driving in NYC, NYPD sources say

The off-duty cop allegedly drunkenly crashed his car into several parked vehicles.Brigitte Stelzer for NY Post
An off-duty NYPD officer was charged with driving drunk after slamming his vehicle into several parked cars in Brooklyn, police sources said.The off-duty cop, Efrain Alejandro, is assigned to the 40th Precinct stationhouse in the Bronx, the sources said.
New York Post
1 year ago
New York City

Brooklyn cop shot while trying to handcuff suspect after responding to domestic dispute

A 38-year-old Brooklyn cop was shot and wounded while responding to a domestic dispute in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Wednesday morning, police said.Seven-year NYPD veteran Orlando Adorno had chased the suspect to 181 Monroe St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant shortly before 9 a.m. and was handcuffing him when the man got a hand free, grabbed a gun from his waistband and opened fire, police said at a press briefing.
New York Post
1 year ago
New York City

Video captures NYC stray-bullet shooting of 70-year-old woman

Surveillance video shows the moment a 70-year-old Brooklyn woman is hit by a stray bullet after leaving a Food Town supermarket pushing her shopping cart full of groceries.The security video captures the elderly victim heading home and being hit by the errant slug in Bedford-Stuyvesant shortly after 2 p.m. Monday.
Brownstoner
1 year ago
Brooklyn real estate

Locals Nix Design for Infill Housing in Bedford Historic District

A community group has rejected a proposal for new infill housing on one of the finest landmarked blocks in Bedford Stuyvesant, part of the Bedford Historic District.The proposed design for 162 Hancock Street shows a four-story brick building with brown trim.The height of the building, the size of its windows, and high stoop match that of the 19th century buildings on the block.
Brownstoner
1 year ago
Brooklyn real estate

Brooklyn Real Estate Listings Six Months Later: All Four Sold

This week, a look back at four of our featured listings from six months ago focuses on homes in Crown Heights, Bed Stuy, Prospect Heights and Fort Greene.How did they fare?
Brownstoner
1 year ago
Brooklyn real estate

Bed Stuy Brownstone With Mantels, Plasterwork, Passthrough, Solar Panels Asks $2.45 Million

There is a fair amount to admire on the interior of this 1890s Bed Stuy row house, although there is still some room for a new owner to put their own stamp on some of the spaces.
Cbsnews
1 year ago
Education

Brooklyn elementary school celebrates Black aviation pioneer

Ahead of Black History Month, a Brooklyn elementary school is celebrating an aviation pioneer.Her legacy is teaching students to take their dreams to new heights.CBS2's Jenna DeAngelis reports from Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Brooklyn Eagle
1 year ago
Education

Mayor Adams announces $4B plan to make new schools all-electric

100 existing schools will also be electrified

Mayor Eric Adams on Friday launched "Leading the Charge" - a $4  billion plan to combat climate change, create healthier learning environments, improve air  quality in communities disproportionately burdened by climate change and environmental  injustice, and help develop the next generation's green workforce.
Cbsnews
1 year ago
Education

19-year-old Brooklyn man founds anti-violence boxing program, inspired by youth development programs which helped him in school

/ CBS New York
NEW YORK - CBS2 is proud to partner with a Brooklyn nonprofit called I WILL GRADUATE as part of our #BetterTogether campaign.
Cbsnews
1 year ago
Education

Brooklyn nonprofit "I Will Graduate" works to boost high school graduation rates

/ CBS New York
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
New York City

How an Astrologer Spends Her Sundays

Jeanna Kadlec is a believer.She believes in the supernatural and in paying attention when an idea hits you, which is what happened when she came up with the title of her memoir, Heretic, about leaving the evangelical church.It was a lightning bolt out of the sky, she said.Growing up in small-town Iowa, Ms. Kadlec was raised at the crossroads of strict evangelicalism and conservatism.
New York Daily News
1 year ago
Brooklyn

Man fatally shot in the head on Brooklyn street, NYPD says

Police on Tuesday sought a killer who fired a fatal bullet into a man's head on a Brooklyn street.Cops found 24-year-old Maceo Singleton with a single gunshot wound about 3 p.m. Monday on Flushing Ave.near Marcy Ave. on the border of Williamsburg and Bedford Stuyvesant.Singleton, of Crown Heights, was pronounced dead at the scene, cops said.
New York Post
1 year ago
New York City

Footage shows suspected gunman in NYC shooting of innocent 70yo woman: cops

New surveillance footage shows the gunman who police believe inadvertently shot a 70-year-old woman in broad daylight this week while aiming for another man, who is also shown in the clip, cops said Tuesday.The video, released by the NYPD, shows a man with a yellow cap standing at the counter of a store before the footage cuts to a shot of another guy in a red, white and blue jacket standing in the doorway.
New York Post
1 year ago
New York City

Relative of 70-year-old woman struck by stray bullet slams NYC as 'out of control'

A relative of an innocent elderly woman who was struck by a stray bullet in Brooklyn on Monday afternoon slammed the city as an "out of control" haven for career criminals.Marilyn Hunte, 70, was shot in the thigh in Bedford-Stuyvesant just after 2:15 p.m. when two men got into a fight nearby and opened fire, cops said.
New York Post
1 year ago
New York City

Man fatally plunges down NYC garbage chute as people look on, video shows

Strange video shows the moment a man climbed into a Brooklyn building's garbage chute minutes before he was found dead in the trash compactor below - as two people look on.
New York Post
1 year ago
New York City

Brooklyn McDonald's employee shot in face after arguing with customer

A McDonald's employee in Brooklyn was shot in the face outside the fast food restaurant after getting into an argument with a customer, sources said.
New York Post
1 year ago
New York City

Kamala Harris arrives in NYC to tout spending for underserved communities

Vice President Kamala Harris arrived in the Big Apple Thursday afternoon to tout new spending efforts for underserved communities.
New York Post
1 year ago
New York City

Woman stabbed to death during fight in Brooklyn, cops say

A woman was stabbed to death in Brooklyn Sunday morning, cops said.
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