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The decomposing bodies of an 80-year-old woman and her 52-year-old son were discovered inside a downtown Brooklyn apartment where neighbors said neither victim had been seen in some time, police said Thursday. Neighbors in the building on Jay St. near Tillary St. called police just before 1 p.m. Wednesday asking them to check on the mother after smelling a foul odor, cops said.

A mother and son were discovered mummified inside a Brooklyn apartment on Wednesday afternoon - after residents reported a troubling smell wafting through the building for days, according to sources and authorities. The 80-year-old woman and 52-year-old man were discovered by officers who entered the building on the corner of Jay Street and Tillary Street in Downtown Brooklyn for a wellness check just before 1 p.m., according to the NYPD.

Cops are investigating the gruesome death of a superintendent who suffered a heart attack after he was clobbered with a cellphone during an argument in Brooklyn Wednesday morning, officials said. The 41-year-old super, whose name was not immediately released, got into a heated dispute with his attacker around 8:12 a.m. inside a building on Ocean Ave. and Glenwood Road in Midwood, and was repeatedly bashed over the head with a cellphone device, police sources said.

Five members of an alleged Brooklyn biker gang face charges of attempted murder and assault following a frenzied East Flatbush gun battle last spring, the Brooklyn District Attorney said Thursday. The bikers turned a residential street "into chaos," Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez said in a statement, "sending bystanders running for their lives." Members of the Brooklyn-based "Street Knights" biker gang were holding an anniversary party at an event hall between Utica and Foster avenues in April

London's Brooklyn Rep is putting their money where their mouths are with a performance in the real Brooklyn. The company will present a one-night-only benefit reading of Jesse Morgan Young and Matthew Sherbach's The Leads (FKA Glengarry Glen Faggot) November 16 at Life World in Bushwick. Described as "a queer disassembly of a very straight, critically acclaimed play," the work follows the performance of a very masc play that gets co-opted by its unseen characters with off-script ideas.

The island, which is connected to the mainland only by ferry, was a big change - both geographically and culturally - from Wexler-Waite's hometown of New York and the Democratic campaigns he worked on in his post-college years. Nevertheless, the seasonal nature of politics left him to explore other interests - including pizza. Now, he's turned that into a full-time gig and returned home to open a Brooklyn branch.

Odyssey Head, 27, is also now charged with a fourth slashing. He was caught shoplifting a pair of shoes from the Flatbush Burlington Coat Factory on Tilden Ave. at about 12:50 p.m. on Sept. 14, police say. A store worker made him give the shoes back, and Head angrily slashed an 80-year-old customer in the back of his head as he stormed out of the store, according to cops.

Published in the fall of 2025, RentCafe's analysis found that nationwide, the average renter holds onto their lease for 28 months (two years and change). The region where renters stay put the longest is the Northeastern U.S., where the average time someone stays in their rental is 36 months (three years). But that average is significantly higher in one place: Brooklyn, N.Y. The New York City borough has renters staying in their homes for an average of 49 months (just over four years).

A Brooklyn judge handing out cushy positions to connected lawyers proves that corruption is still alive and well in the city court system, despite reforms put in place in the early aughts. From 2022 to '24, The Post reported last week, Brooklyn Judge Lawrence Knipel handed out 881 fiduciary appointments to 25 lawyers who'd donated $25,000 in total to his wife, Democratic district leader Lori Knipel.

Akaberi, in part, got people talking about him, because of his stunt a decade ago, in which he wore his outlandish get-up to Brooklyn court. It included a "shirt" fashioned from newsprint pages covered in the holy Hebrew writings of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson - and a hat made from a print-out of the original seven commandments given to Noah. Akaberi wore the peculiar outfit as apparent retaliation because he was banned from reading Talmudic quotations at a pre-trial hearing.

When the lights go down and the first notes of a concert echo through Barclays Center, there's one person whose vision and passion have helped make that moment possible: Laurie Jacoby. As Chief Entertainment Officer for Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment, Jacoby oversees all programming and live events at the Barclays Center - a role that has not only elevated the arena's global profile but also redefined how Brooklyn experiences live entertainment.

Now, however, a dive implies the kind of no-frills, incandescently-lit, happy hour staple enjoyed by young professionals and old barflies alike. It means somewhere you'll get a cold beer, a sporting event on T.V. (no matter how obscure), and conversation with good bartenders who don't pretend to know any shirt-gartered mixological mastery. They'll make you a Negroni, sure. But there's a very slight chance you'll be looked at askance.

Dozens of the city's new space-age garbage containers crash-landed in Brooklyn over the last week, marking the latest move by the sanitation department to eradicate mountains of trash bags from sidewalks. The large, gray bins made by the Spanish company Contenur are a common sight in parts of Upper Manhattan, where the sanitation department has rolled them out over the last year as part of a pilot program.

A 24-year-old man was shot to death early Sunday in a Brooklyn apartment building lobby just a block away from where a man's dismembered body was found two days earlier. The shooting victim was blasted in the torso in the lobby of a building on Dorchester Road near E. 21st St. in Flatbush after police received a call of two men involved in a dispute about 2 a.m., officials said. Medics rushed the victim to to Kings County Hospital but he could not be saved.

Police are investigating a grisly discovery in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood, authorities said Friday. Police say a call about a man found dead in front of an apartment building on East 21st Street came in around 9:15 a.m. Law enforcement sources with knowledge of the investigation say a head and a torso were found in a bag, near the garbage area of the building. The investigation is active and ongoing.

NEW YORK CITY - The Michelin Guide announced that it has added another 12 New York City restaurants to its "recommended" list.

The victim drove two men to their requested destination on Duffield Street at about 2:30 p.m, police said. When they arrived, the perps said they wanted to go somewhere else and asked for the cab driver's phone so they could enter the address. Once they had the phone in hand, though, they allegedly leaped out of the car and ran to Concord Street, where a white BMW was waiting for them with two other men inside.