Brooklyn News

Sgt. Raymond Stukes, one of two officers indicted on felony perjury, leaves State Supreme Court in Brooklyn following his arraignment.

Gov. David Paterson on Friday rejected the Legislature's compromise proposal on a plan that would grant new powers to New York's public colleges.

The Starlite Lounge, a long-celebrated fixture of the Brooklyn gay scene, closes its doors Saturday after a rocky year.

There are big plans in store for the Brooklyn Bread House, which opened its doors at 1718 Jerome Avenue last Friday.

Five-story office building bought by Joseph Cayre's Midtown Equities; building achieved lasting fame as the place where baseball legend Jackie Robinson signed his first Major League contract.

From the jetty at Fort Totten Park in Bayside, Queens, the Throgs Neck Bridge can be seen stretching from Queens to the Bronx.

The House's rejection of bill that would have provided up to $7.4 billion in aid to people sickened by World Trade Center dust has opened a sharp rift between two New York congressmen, Republican Peter King and Democrat Anthony Weiner.The verbal jousting came on the House floor Thursday night as the vote neared.

With the sun pounding down on Church Avenue in central Brooklyn, Johanna Washington dipped her fingers into an ice-cold cooler and shook her head as a man in a blue T-shirt approached, water bottles in hand.

The Bronx version of the Nike Air Force 1 sneaker, which is retailing at $135. Sneaker freaks! As Nike announces $135 special edition sneakers for each of the 5 boroughs, how much would you be prepared to pay for sneakers? It's ChristmasA in July for sneaker freaks who want to wear their neighborhood pride on their feet.

Wednesday's murder of 36-year-old Roderick Dunham was the third homicide in the city this year.

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A Fort Greene physician who has worked for 12 years on Rikers Island is on "extended vacation," his receptionist said Thursday, after he was arrested on a charge of criminal sexual conduct with a female inmate.

Thomas A. Farley, the city's health commissioner, bestowed a big blue A on Spark's Deli in Long Island City, Queens, on Wednesday as the city rolled out its new restaurant grading system.

Brooklyn New York is home of the Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series.A Monday July 19, theA sultry Grammy award winning singer Toni Braxton entertained a standing room only crowd at Wingate Park.

HERE'S Frankie Fidilio rolling down Avenue U in Brooklyn on the second-hottest day of the year in his blue 1986 GMC Suburban.

A 74-year-old Genovese crime captain was convicted of racketeering Thursday, but beat the rap for ordering the fatal robbery of a Staten Island jeweler-to-the-mob. Prosecutors argued that Anthony Antico gave the go-ahead to a crew of thugs to rob Louis Antonelli because the jeweler was paying cash tribute to the gangster for the privilege of ...

Yoga, music and picnicking, perfect together: Jim Graseck warms up as Angela Botta demonstrates a stretch at the concert series at Richard Tucker Park on Wednesday.

Body of Stevenson Blackett is removed from the scene of a homicide at 1086 East 86 Street in Brooklyn.

Every Friday night, Ham Ood Suliman, 18, drives the four miles from his apartment building on Avenue Z and East 28th Street in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn to Bath Avenue to attend prayers at the Muslim American Society's mosque.

On Court Street Wednesday, across the park from Brooklyn federal court, attorneys Sanford Rubenstein and Scott Rynecki held a press conference to announce the long-awaited end to one of the city's most notorious lawsuits.