Six teenagers were wounded in a mass shooting at a Brooklyn "Sweet 16" birthday bash early Sunday morning - with a pair of gunmen still on the loose, according to police. Cops responded to Burbuja Events catering hall at 2929 Atlantic Avenue in Cypress Hills on a 911 call shortly after 1:15 a.m., where they found the victims with gunshot wounds, police said.
Working off a tip, the Drug Enforcement Agency said it stopped a tractor trailer as it was heading into Brooklyn. As agents conducted a traffic stop, a search allegedly revealed drugs hidden among crates of papayas.
The train was parked just south of the 86th St. station in Fort Hamilton Monday afternoon when a transit worker noticed the lead car was missing the so-called "master controller," sources told the Daily News. A master controller - which on an R160 subway car, like those on an R train, consists of a T-shaped handle on the train operator's right-hand side - controls a subway's acceleration and braking.
The actor and his filmmaker wife, Jo Andres, sold their brownstone at 460 Fifth Street for $4.99 million, according to a deed posted Monday. The deal seems to have been made off market, and the buyers are a pair of family trusts. The house is a cartoonishly typical three-story brownstone two blocks off Prospect Park by Seventh Avenue - an area that, unfathomably today, wasn't as fancy when the couple bought it in 1997, not long after Buscemi's memorable roles in Fargo and Reservoir Dogs.
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.
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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.
A bloodthirsty Brooklyn murderer who hacked up his former roommate and drug dealer, then stored the man's body parts in his fridge, will spend the rest of his life behind bars - and a new court filing offered a harrowing blow-by-blow description of the horrific crime. Nicholas McGee, 48, turned his Flatbush apartment into a grotesque scene that would give a grindhouse B-movie director pause when he killed 39-year-old Kawsheen Gelzer in a seedy dispute over sex, drugs and disrespect in March 2022.
A chronic speeder with a history of violating speed limits and red lights was sentenced to up to nine years in prison for the deaths of a mother and her two kids run down while walking through Brooklyn crosswalk earlier this year. Miriam Yarimi, 33, of Midwood, was sentenced by a Brooklyn judge on Wednesday to a prison term of three to nine years for killing Natasha Saada and her daughters, Diana and Deborah.
A 38-year-old man was fatally struck by a train on Tuesday that was pulling into a Brooklyn subway station. The victim was on the track bed as a southbound N train was pulling into the Kings Highway station around 5:54 p.m. near Kings Highway and W. Seventh St. in Gravesend. The conductor failed to stop in time and struck the man, cops said.
NYPD detectives charged a Medford man on Tuesday with leaving the scene of a September hit-and-run crash that killed a woman in Brooklyn. Luis Machado, 33, of Medford, was arrested on Tuesday in the Sept. 27 crash that killed Alexandra Huggins, 32, of Brooklyn, when she was struck while riding her bicycle in Williamsburg, the NYPD said. Huggins was found unconscious and taken to NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull, where she was pronounced dead, police said.