A Brooklyn judge yesterday skewered the legal team of accused child butcher Levi Aron, questioning whether his lawyers have the experience to try a complex criminal case and deal with the persistent press coverage. Brooklyn Supreme... Read Full Story
The Brooklyn woman who stole more than $80,000 from a PTA and faces jail if she can’t pay it back has more financial and legal woes as her business is being...
A Brooklyn coin-store owner was beaten to a pulp yesterday in a robbery outside his business by five thugs who dumped the mortally wounded man about a mile...
After eight years of planning, developer Bruce Ratner hopes to finally move forward with the first of 16 residential and commercial towers planned for Brooklyn...
Red-faced city officials yesterday ripped up a cluster of tree-lined pedestrian islands -- installed just 10 months ago to make it safer for the elderly to...
People are dying to get in -- and this scandal-scarred Brooklyn cemetery has no problem packing ’em in like sardines! A Queens senior says his wife’s grave was recently “desecrated” -- and her casket possibly damaged -- at Brooklyn...
A teen mom was fatally shot in Brooklyn yesterday after getting into an argument with the father of her 3-year-old daughter, cops and neighbors said....
Two men are fighting for their lives after getting burned in an electrical fire in Brooklyn today, officials said. The fire broke out at 8:05 a.m. on an...
The daughter of famed photographer Gordon Parks says her celebrity-chef husband is behind on child support and illegally diverted money from the sale of a house to avoid paying her, according to a new lawsuit. After the high...
Anthony Weiner's seat is getting national attention again -- but this time, everyone is keeping their clothes on. Republicans' national campaign committee is dumping stacks of cash into GOP candidate Bob Turner's coffers, The Post...
The leader of a Brooklyn band wants to stick it to the New Jersey Devils, saying the puck-heads stole one of his songs. Rob Traynor and the rest of Black...
No Wi-Fi for you! A Brooklyn coffee shop gave a jolt to its customers this past week when it tried to police the amount of time its patrons spend computing on the cheap. Vineapple, on Pineapple Street in Brooklyn Heights, gave...
City Comptroller John Liu will investigate a city agency's dealings with a real-estate mogul who bought four Brooklyn buildings with the plan of converting them into homeless shelters. Luxury hotel developer Shimmie Horn has been...
Three dopey teens were busted early yesterday after they were spotted climbing along the beams of the Williamsburg Bridge and hanging over the edge of the...
Three people have been charged in connection with the death of a fledgling Brooklyn rapper whose burned body was found last week in an SUV parked in New Jersey...
ALBANY -- Nervous state Democrats are flooding voters with mailings blasting Republican candidate Bob Turner in the hotly contested 9th Congressional District, upping the ante in the closer-than-expected race to succeed disgraced ex...
She's still daddy's little girl. The 14-year-old daughter of disgraced former cop Kenneth Moreno, who was cleared of rape charges but face one year in jail on an official misconduct conviction, wants to remain with her father, her...
The Rev. Al Sharpton abruptly backed out yesterday of a symposium on the 1991 Crown Heights riots after his invitation triggered outrage. Sharpton said he would not appear on a panel discussing the "State of Black-Jewish Relations...
An East End synagogue has reignited bitterness over the 1991 Crown Heights race riots by inviting the Rev. Al Sharpton to a symposium marking the 20th anniversary of the bloody confrontations. "It's just an absolute disgrace,"...
"Rape cop" defendant Kenneth Moreno threw away his badge, his gun, his job and his dignity -- but his ex is the one paying the price. Short on cash while he's out on bail appealing his official-misconduct conviction, Moreno...
The leader of the controversial mosque planned near Ground Zero ripped into a Republican congressional candidate in Queens for politicizing the issue. Sharif El-Gamal, head of Park51 -- the mosque and Muslim community center...
Brooklyn bicyclists won big in court yesterday when a judge put the brakes on legal action seeking to discontinue a controversial bike lane. Supreme Court Justice Bert Bunyan threw out a lawsuit by neighborhood groups opposed to...
A baby girl died Wednesday after being rushed to a Brooklyn hospital in critical condition, cops said. The five-month-old had been badly beaten, said a source...
Actor Steve Buscemi can finally dump his trash in peace. A Brooklyn blogger has shut down his quirky blog that chronicled items the offbeat actor discarded on his Park Slope stoop the past two years -- an eclectic mix including...
The badly burned body of an aspiring Brooklyn rapper has been found in an SUV parked on a Paramus, NJ, street, cops said. Rhian H. Stoute, 33, who...
Brooklyn certainly isn’t the Apple of Steve Jobs’ eye, and his latest snub has the borough’s biggest booster seeing red. "I seriously just don’t get it," Borough President Marty Markowitz said today, after officials announced that an...
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Brian Bernardi was ready to head home and go through his final six schools, to further analyze each program’s plusses and minuses. When he thought about SMU, however, there were no negatives. As it turns out, he didn’t need to get back to Staten... 1:28 AM
Marvin Centeno has waited four years for this opportunity. So has Robert Thomas, Tyrone Raymond and Mensur Ibric. They've all patiently waited for their time to come at Fort Hamilton, when they were the senior leaders, the ones in charge. Well,... 2:50 AM
Travon Reid-Segure scooped the ball out of the air and was off to the races, down the left sideline, cruising into the end zone. He softly placed the... 12:21 AM
When last season ended with a humbling 38-14 loss to eventual runner-up Lincoln in the first round of the PSAL City Championship division playoffs,... 2:49 AM
Christian Pena wasn’t just Grand Street Campus’ top offensive weapon at quarterback last season. He was also one of the team’s best defensive players at linebacker. Pena’s two-way abilities were a point of contention all of 2010 for the Wolves....
Alan Balkan will be the first to admit he doesn’t have overwhelming talent. New Utrecht isn’t blessed with years of varsity experience, either. But...
The structure of CHSAA girls soccer will be getting a makeover this season. Starting this year, the Brooklyn/Queens and Staten Island divisions will be coming together to form an intersectional league at the varsity and junior varsity levels,...
Coaches are embracing the new CHSAA intersectional girls soccer league. “Overall it’s going to help the girls play a higher level,” Fontbonne Hall...
Save for a trip to Las Vegas near the end of the July recruiting period, Isaiah Whitehead hardly left Coney Island. Lincoln’s standout rising sophomore instead relentlessly worked out and caught up with a few classes. His recruiting hasn’t...
The last few Nike streetball player of the summer awards have gone to guys with larger-than-life personas and legendary names. Last year, it was Antawn (Anti-Freeze) Dobie. Before that, Adris (2 Hard 2 Guard) DeLeon took home the crown. This year’s...
Isaiah Whitehead and C.J. Davis are throwbacks – egoless, academically responsible and team-first. They have the personas of role players – willing to cede the spotlight to others – which is ironic because they are anything but complementary pieces....
Christina Delille was that girl, the one your coach warns you might become if you don’t work hard, if you don’t take care of your studies. Christina Delille was a basketball horror story, a how-to on what not to do when you’re talented in a sport....
Nazareth grad Bra’Shey Ali has enrolled at the University of Kentucky despite initially committing to West Virginia. Kentucky announced that Ali would be eligible to compete for the Wildcats this coming season on their website Friday. Ali said she...
Adeola Olanrewaju quickly learned this was going to be a different go around with the Nigerian women’s national basketball team. At the team’s tryouts in July, the former all-city standout at Bishop Loughlin, who made the squad for the third time,...
The Brooklyn Cyclones travel softball team is looking for players – for the end of the summer and the fall. The Cyclones 10U team is seeking players...
Travis Gill has a unique relationship with his grandmother, Carmen Gill. She attended virtually every one of his games at Xaverian and still calls him 10 times a day. “I live with my mom, but since I was little, we had a close relationship,” he...
Dan Hurley saw a little of himself in Chris Alesi. Like Hurley, he grew up in a basketball family, playing for his dad, Jack, at Xaverian and coaching under him as soon as he graduated from Baruch College. When he attended Xaverian workouts last...
Taj Gibson is from Brooklyn. He’s been playing at Dyckman since he was a kid. He played AAU ball with the Gauchos. So he knows just how difficult it is to come into New York City and play basketball – no matter who you are. “Not every NBA player...
Kamari Murphy had arguably the best July out of any New York City basketball player. Two weeks ago, after a game at Dyckman, he rattled off new offer after new offer. “Right now it’s kind of confusing, but it feels good,” Murphy on Aug. 4. “I got a...
Mike Toro meets with each of his players individually before every season and the Bishop Ford girls basketball coach had a special message for rising junior point guard Aaliyah Lewis. He approached her about being more of a leader, something Toro...
It’ll surely go down as one of the biggest summers in Omar Calhoun’s life. The Christ the King rising senior kicked it off in June by committing to Connecticut. In July, he played well in tournaments with the Gauchos and starred at the LeBron...
Even with the game appearing to slip away, Malik Nichols only saw one possible ending and he wasn’t going to be satisfied with anything else. “I had to,” he said. “The chip is on the line. We had to win.” Win his team did. The former Boys &...
Isaiah Whitehead and Archie Goodwin almost got a little too close for comfort Saturday night. The pair sat next to each other on the bus en route to The Franchise Classic rain site, the South Bronx Job Corps, before exchanging trash talk and...
A broken play is never a problem when Chris (Sixx) Wehye is on your team. “He’s multi-purpose,” X-Men coach and older brother Peter Wehye said. “He does it all. He rebounds, he finishes, he shoots. When a play breaks down he is one of the hardest...
Lincoln’s 2010 football season could not have been more memorable. It started with the recruitment of elite national prospect Ishaq Williams and the Railsplitters ended up in their first PSAL city title game in 17 years. The entire campaign was...
It’s official! The public-private Downtown Brooklyn Partnership beginning August 15 will seize...
Read OnAs the city looks to transform Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue, Borough President Marty Markowitz has even...
Read OnOne of Brooklyn’s oldest and most popular bakeries was honored today going green. Borough...
Read OnBRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn—which owns and operates Brooklyn Community Access Television (BCAT)— has...
Read OnOne of the few finished portions of Brooklyn Bridge Park is getting hundreds of new neighbors. The...
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