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Lander Caught Speeding | Fifth Avenue Storefronts Start To Fill | Ex-Girlfriend Denied Bail For Park Slope Shooting
The council member has 118 total violations since 2013, despite being a staunch advocate for driver safety and speed cameras, the Post found
Though not dropping as steeply as Manhattan, the borough's rents hit record-lows in the first quarter of 2021, a study found.
A record number of empty storefronts brought on by the coronavirus crisis are slowly but surely filling up with new businesses, data shows.
Local officials had feared an upcoming year-long construction project on Underhill and Vanderbilt would impact one of the Open Streets.
Urban Market of Park Slope opens Friday in the space where clothing store Mandee once stood.
The festival, the first live performance for the theater since the coronavirus crisis, will be held from porches on a street in Ditmas Park.
The Laundromat Project, a longtime arts organization, is celebrating its move to the neighborhood with a grant program this spring.
Restaurateurs behind the new "Crown Club" say it will be "one of the most beautiful spaces in the city."
Three suspects are wanted from the shoot-out on Gates Avenue earlier this week, which caused no injuries but damaged nearby cars, cops said.
Latisha Bell walked into the precinct with a gun still in her bag hours after shooting her ex-girlfriend Nichelle Thomas, officials say.
The "Photoville FENCE" exhibit will be surrounding Brooklyn Bridge Park through June.
The woman was shot on the corner of St. Marks Place and Fourth Avenue on Wednesday afternoon, police said.
Two of the neighborhood's ZIP codes were either near or at the halfway mark on Wednesday, while two others still lagged behind.
The first of the neighborhood's ZIP codes has half of its residents partially vaccinated, though it still lags other parts of Brooklyn.
Nearly all trash cans in Brooklyn's Backyard were overturned on Tuesday night, leaving staff and neighbors picking up huge piles of garbage.
A fundraiser by the Sunset Park BID is hoping to raise enough to close down portions of Fifth Avenue again this year, starting May 1.
A Brooklyn man who attended the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol turned himself in on Tuesday, prosecutors announced.
The complicated scheme included using high-tech medical cameras to see inside safety deposit boxes in Eastern Europe, prosecutors said.