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  • Brooklyn has shot at grabbing Islanders

    After Nassau County voters rejected a referendum to build a new arena for the Islanders, the Barclays Center being built in Brooklyn has emerged as a possible...  

  • B'klyn woman sentenced to 1 1/3 to four years in prison for striking City Hall staffer with her car

    B'klyn woman sentenced to 1 1/3 to four years in prison for striking City Hall staffer with her car

    The woman who struck a beloved City Hall staffer on a Brooklyn street last year was sentenced today to 1 1/3 to four years behind bars for the crime. While...  

  • Russian immigrant gets a year and a day for helping scam $105K in Holocaust reparations

    A Russian immigrant who helped more than two dozen crooks scam Holocaust reparations was sentenced this morning to a year and day behind bars. Polina Anoshina...  

  • Lost stuffed toy monkey returned to owners

    Lost stuffed toy monkey returned to owners

    It’s a monkey miracle — Bongo has been found! An Upper East Side couple grieving over the loss of a stuffed toy monkey they’ve raised like a son the past...  

  • 'Cleared' in rape - & facing deport

    'Cleared' in rape - & facing deport

    Charges against a Brooklyn livery driver who was arrested in one rape and identified as a suspect in three other sex assaults are expected to be dropped after...  

  • Boughs breaking in Prospect Park

    Boughs breaking in Prospect Park

    It's "Heads up!" in Prospect Park. Branches, boughs and trunks on dozens of diseased and dead trees along the massive lakeside within Brooklyn's biggest park...  

  • Nightmare endures 20 years later for Crown Hts. girl

    Twenty years after racial tensions exploded in Crown Heights and ravaged a divided community, there is still at least one New Yorker who hasn't healed. For...  

  • Coke 'nets' deal at B'klyn arena

    Coke is it -- in Brooklyn. The Barclays Center and Coca-Cola have cut a multimillion-dollar deal to make the soda giant the exclusive soft-drink provider...  

  • New York City's last taxidermist has the right 'stuff'

    New York City's last taxidermist has the right 'stuff'

    He's one New Yorker who doesn't mind being told to stuff it. John Youngaitis, the city's only remaining taxidermist, ekes out a living stuffing and...  

  • Freak mishap kills fisherman

    An elderly boater died in a horrific, freak accident as he fished in Brooklyn's Gravesend Bay yesterday, authorities said. Florijam Kasumovic, 74, of...  

  • Man drowns in B'klyn boat-drag accident

    A man died in a horrific, freak boating accident in Brooklyn's Gravesend Bay today, authorities said. The victim’s leg apparently got stuck in the railing of...  

  • Cop sarge DWI bust

    An off-duty NYPD sergeant was busted for drunken driving early yesterday in Brooklyn, cops said. "I had a couple of beers," Diego Vivar bluntly admitted to...  

  • Pol linked to mystery defrocked charity

    Deidra Towns is trumpeting her association with a dubious nonprofit that has no public record of its work as she runs for her brother Darryl's vacant Assembly...  

  • Go with the 'fro! Pacino as Spector

    Go with the 'fro! Pacino as Spector

    It was a hair-raising scene in Downtown Brooklyn as legendary actor Al Pacino donned an Afro bigger than any "Wall of Sound" to play legendary music producer...  

  • Leiby fiend a karaoke loony-tune

    Leiby fiend a karaoke loony-tune

    Levi Aron liked to spend his Saturday nights at a Long Island bowling-alley dive bar, belting out off-key karaoke tunes with a DJ pal, The Post has learned....  

Brooklyn Blog

  • Pier 1 housing, hotel set for Brooklyn Bridge Park

    One of the few finished portions of Brooklyn Bridge Park is getting hundreds of new neighbors. The...  

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  • Nassau nix leaves door open for Islanders move to Brooklyn

    If the Islanders want to come to Brooklyn, it's smooth skating now. Nassau County voters last...  

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  • Aretha Franklin taking another crack at free Coney concert

    The Queen of Soul is showing Brooklyn some R-E-S-P-E-C-T. After cancelling what was to be her...  

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  • Report shows huge gains in jobs, population gains for Coney Island

    Coney Island is on some ride. The city’s effort to revive the amusement district with new...  

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  • New historic district approved near Brooklyn Navy Yard

    The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission yesterday voted unanimously to approve a new historic...  

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    Casey Anthony
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