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BUSHWICK — SOME NEIGHBORS at Maria Hernandez Park in Bushwick have noted a decline in the local pigeon population, PIX11 reports. Resident Tina Pina, who feeds the flock, estimated that around ...
BAY RIDGE — Thursday’s tragic helicopter crash into the Hudson River has a Brooklyn Congressmember pushing to restrict tourist chopper operations. Agustin Escobar, the CEO of technology giant ...
Brooklyn Heights, perhaps the best-known of all the Brooklyn neighborhoods, owes its name to the Dutch, with a tweak from the British and the last Ice Age. Some 50,000 years ago, when the climate ...
By Monday, the Brooklyn Nets’ brain trust won’t be evaluating talent on the court. They’ll instead busy themselves figuring ...
NORTHEASTERN U.S. — CABOT CREAMERY BUTTER HAS BEEN RECALLED because of the possible contamination of coliform, according to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration enforcement report, CBS/Moneywatch ...
EAST NEW YORK/DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — DARNELL JONES, A NINEDEE GANG MEMBER also known as “EJ,” pleaded guilty on Wednesday, April 9 in federal court in Brooklyn to conspiring to engage in wire ...
SHEEPSHEAD BAY — POLICE ARE SEEKING the public’s help in finding missing teen Michael Holliman, 17, who was last seen leaving her Sheepshead Bay home on Avenue W on Friday, April 4, at 7:30 a ...
BAY RIDGE — It was an Amazin’ performance. Thirteen-year-old Bay Ridge resident Scarlett London Diviney sang “God Bless America” in the middle of the seventh inning at Citi Field during ...
CITYWIDE — THE SANITATION DEPARTMENT MUST STOP PENALIZING Jewish New Yorkers who cannot put their trash out during the Sabbath, says a new bill that Borough Park Assemblymember Simcha ...
The early inhabitants of what is today Brooklyn Heights included the Canarsee people and Dutch farmers, who settled in the area in the mid-1600s. The neighborhood played a pivotal role in the ...