A cop shot and killed a 22-year-old man who pointed an imitation handgun at him outside a Brooklyn elementary school yesterday, police said. "The cop said, 'He pulled a gun on me,' " said resident Maureen Quinn, who rushed to her front... Read Full Story
NEW YORK -- New York City's four-year high school graduation rate has risen to 59 percent. The state education department released new figures showing the...
City officials today announced the opening of a new $2.3 million microbiology laboratory that will improve operational efficiency and enhance monitoring of...
Step right up folks, for "The Worst Shiva on Earth!" What was supposed to be a fond remembrance of a beloved aunt turned into a three-ring rumble when the man who runs the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus had his sister...
North Brooklyn residents say they’re sour over a $1.2 billion plan to bring 2,200 new apartments to the former Domino Sugar factory site in Williamsburg – especially how it could affect already overcrowded neighborhood transit service...
A 10-year-old Brooklyn girl playing outside her home was shot in the arm last night and a 24-year-old man was killed when bullets started flying on a Bedford-Stuyvesant street. Dalila Gray (pictured) was with her friends and...
An Orthodox rabbi repeatedly sexually abused his son's 16-year-old classmate, a Brooklyn jury ruled yesterday. The 10 women and two men deliberated less...
The Nets should finally have a true home-court advantage when they flee New Jersey for Brooklyn in 2012 as the team’s new $1 billion digs feature enough lower-level seating to keeps fans close to the action. With the groundbreaking...
Swiping Irina Malezhik and Viktor Alekseyev’s identities wasn’t enough. Dimitry and Julia Yakovlev had to take their lives as well, federal prosecutors...
What, me worry? An embattled Gov. Paterson attempted to save his sinking administration yesterday as he ducked questions about scandals and hurried to...
Gov. Paterson yesterday vowed to finish his term, dismissing a growing chorus of calls for his resignation. "I will keep governing until the end of the year," he told parishioners at a Brooklyn church to huge applause. "I will not...
A Brooklyn man charged in an alleged husband-and-wife identity-theft ring pleaded not guilty today in Brooklyn federal court to charges that he murdered his...
An out-of-control SUV slammed into five people in a Brooklyn church parking lot yesterday, killing a 40-year-old woman and injuring four, including a young girl and a baby, police said. Kyongkoo Park, 72, from Queens, lost control...
A group of ultra-Orthodox rabbis is waging a schmear campaign against a staple of the Jewish diet: lox. Smoked salmon should no longer be considered kosher, they say, because the fish often contain parasitic worms. But some...
It’s downright un-fare. A crew of gun-toting cabbie crooks has been connected to eight heists this week as cops uncover a nail-biting robbery spree brewing in...
Looking every bit as beautiful and glamorous as her superstar persona, pop diva Beyoncé, and her mother Tina Knowles came to dumbo last week to help people...
A Brooklyn gym teacher allegedly choked and punched a pint-size 10th-grader last week -- and the school responded by suspending the girl. But after outraged students and staff complained that the wrong person had been punished and...
Hollywood got it wrong again. "Brooklyn's Finest," a police drama being released today, stars Richard Gere and Ethan Hawke in a tale of demoralized cops who turn a blind eye to crime, grab every chance to rip off drug dealers, and...
A Brooklyn man has been arrested in the cold-blooded shooting of a woman at her husband's Bensonhurst butcher shop during a $10,000 cash grab, authorities said...
Harlem-born rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs is crossing the bridge to throw his first-ever Brooklyn bash as a tribute to his late friend, rapper Notorious B.I.G. "Everybody in Harlem knows you don’t usually go over the bridge to Brooklyn,"...
Let the music industry have South By Southwest and the CMJ festival. Brooklyn has its own DIY Music Festival for Brooklynites by Brooklynites. Sponsored by...
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Banneker didn’t shy away from its George Westinghouse ghosts. The Warriors embraced them. Once they knew the matchup had been set they discussed all the losses. Last year’s 35-points loss in the PSAL Class A quarterfinals came up, so did the two...
As Brooklyn Tech senior forward Kherel Silcott stood at the free throw line late in a PSAL Class A quarterfinal matchup with Martin Luther King Jr., the Brooklyn Tech student section started its final cheer of the afternoon. “Final Four”...
With the season on the line, Robert Phelps called timeout. His Bedford Academy boys basketball team trailing Midwood by five points midway through the fourth quarter, the first-year coach needed an answer. He looked at his standout point guard,...
Will Bartlett is heady, both on and off the court. After all, he’s going to Yale to play basketball next year. But with 22.1 seconds left in the fourth quarter and his team trailing by one, the smartest thing the senior forward did as he stepped to...
Fontbonne Hall rode star Katie Henderson and a stifling defense to a 48-35 win over St. John’s Prep in the CHSAA Class B city girls basketball final at...
With tears in her eyes, the PSAL Class AA championship trophy in her hands, and chants of “You can’t beat The High” in the background, Ruth Lovelace was the picture of serenity. After 17 years of near misses, the Boys & Girls basketball coach was...
Mike Taylor will forever hold a place in Boys & Girls lore now. No matter what happens from here – whether he wins another title next year, goes on to a major Division I basketball program and a professional career, or never quite reaches his own...
Leroy Isler described the pain in his left ankle as sharp. He had trouble walking Friday and didn’t attend Thursday’s city championship game press conference. Clearly, this wasn’t the condition the Boys & Girls’ forward hoped to be in against...
ITHACA, N.Y. – Richmond Ahadzi stood with the rest of his competition staring anxiously at the results board. The Sheepshead Bay junior and Amityville’s Sancho Barnett appeared to have crossed the line together. “I was just nervous,” Ahadzi said...
ITHACA, N.Y. – Lateisha Philson was so nervous she was shaking. The Benjamin Cardozo sophomore had never beaten Saratoga’s Madalayne Smith in the 55 meter hurdles and was about to race her again for a state title. But before the start she took a...
ITHACA, N.Y. – Adrienne Alexander admits she will be sorry to see Lancaster’s Melissa Kurzdorfer and North Babylon’s Vanessa Stewart graduate even...
Jayvaughn Pinkston has made his name as an offensive force in the paint and on the perimeter. The McDonald’s All-American is a 6-foot-6, 220-pound ball of power with a finesse streak. Friday night, the Villanova-bound forward did his best work on...
When the topic was raised, Mo Hicks smiled. Defending state champion and national powerhouse Rice as an underdog? “I want them to believe that,” the longtime coach said, referring to his players. Hicks didn’t address whether he agreed with the...
PSAL boys basketball beat writer Zach Braziller breaks down the No. 2 Boys & Girls Kangaroos in advance of Saturday’s Class AA boys basketball championship game at Madison Square Garden. Boys & Girls Nickname: Kangaroos Head coach: Ruth...
Ruth Lovelace was a 23-year-old, second-year physical education teacher one day 17 years ago when Frank Mickens changed her life. Across the public address system, the school’s principal and former boys basketball coach announced she was the next...
Matt Walker didn’t like what he saw – heads sagged, shoulders slumped, faces long. It was only halftime for his Banneker boys basketball team, but there was little optimism with the ninth-seeded Warriors trailing No. 8 Brooklyn Collegiate by 15...
It wasn’t just that Poly Prep lost, ending a promising season perhaps prematurely. It was how the Blue Devils did it. No. 4 Poly got off to a slow...
Mike Taylor waited an entire year to get back to the PSAL Class AA semifinals at St. John’s University, site of the only scoreless game of his high school career. He left those bad memories in the past for good Wednesday night. Boys & Girls’...
Anthony Prescott pulled his jersey over his head and walked away from the referee. Transit Tech’s point guard knew what was coming – he was whistled for his fifth and final foul – but wanted to delay the inevitable. “I knew it was gonna hurt my...
CHSAA boys basketball beat writer Dylan Butler breaks down the Class AA intersectional quarterfinals being played at St. Francis Prep on Thursday and Christ the King on Friday. For live updates during the games, click here. Here’s the schedule:...
Joseph LeDoux and Daniela Schiller will discuss the brain, w...
The indie-rock band celebrates its release party for its new...
Daniel Goldstein feels he’s being treated like an Enemy of the State. Goldstein – the public face...
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