Brooklyn News

On September 11, 2001, Brooklyn homicide detective Vito Friscia was only a block away when the second of the Twin Towers collapsed.

Movie stars are a cosseted bunch. These days even those who are merely stars of documentaries are often surrounded by aides and press agents, minders and interns.

At least $1.4 million in fees paid to the city by the tenants of the Cedar Grove Beach Club in New Dorp will be used to make the privately-leased stretch of land public - revenue Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe called "inconsequential in the grand scheme of things." Parks remains firm in its plans to reclaim the beach despite pressure from elected ...

The robot surveys its domain. Perched high above an industrial stretch of East Williamsburg, a menacing robot nine feet high and seven feet wide surveys the street below, watching cars steal past graffitied factory buildings as if they were prey.

HARD against the seashore, on Beach 116th Street, there is a funny place to visit on a summer afternoon.

VINCE GIORDANO didn't just record, with his band, the Nighthawks , much of the music on "Boardwalk Empire." He also served as an invaluable historical resource.

Two days after the bruised, emaciated body of a 4-year-old girl was discovered in a Brooklyn apartment, new information from officials emerged about her life and death as her mother on Saturday made her first appearance in court to face criminal charges.

A 39-year-old man driving on his bread delivery route through Brooklyn on Friday night was killed after bullets apparently fired by someone on a building's rooftop pierced the ceiling of his work van and struck him in the head, the police said.

Carl Paladino's campaign to become governor of New York doesn't include making nice to its biggest city - or most of it, anyway.

On Thursday night in Brooklyn, a suspect was chased and quickly surrounded by a group of patrolmen in blue uniform jackets who ordered him to halt.

In the ID theft ringleader's homes, police found dozens of counterfeit credit cards, debit cards, fictitious identification, and more.

A ruthless punk is wanted for knocking down elderly women in Brooklyn and stealing their belongings, cops said.

More than 50 unicyclists from around the country pedaled over the Brooklyn Bridge Friday afternoon to kick off the first annual New York City Unicycle Festival .

At the beginning of August, the sidewalk at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 12th Street in Park Slope had been covered with candles, photos, flowers, teddy bears, potato chips, rosaries, and even unopened bottles of Corona beer and Bacardi rum.A Around 70A friends and family members gathered for a vigil at the busy intersection in this ...

CNBC Closing Bell host Maria Bartiromo is teaching a class at New York University's Stern School of Business this fall, according to Bess Levin .

Four members of an Orthodox Jewish volunteer patrol in Brooklyn were shot Thursday night after they followed and confronted a man in a vehicle who had been acting suspiciously, the police and witnesses said.

As the sun sets over a string of tire repair and auto body shops in Brooklyn, the first jaunty notes of a jangly symphony ring out.

The FBI is offering $5 million for information on my fellow high school alumna's ex-neighbor - " Adnan el-Shukrijumah, al-Qaida's new head of global operations.

Parade goers at last year's West Indian American Day parade are sure to return this year.

The police are investigating the death of a sickly 4-year-old girl in Brooklyn whose body was found after her mother called 911 on Thursday morning and reported the child was unresponsive.