Brooklyn News

Jan. 7, 1953, was an historic day in Brooklyn. The prime minister of England at that time, Winston Churchill, visited the Cobble Hill house where his mother was born.

The Brooklyn couple says their outdoor nuptials last August turned into a complete washout when lawn sprinklers turned on, drenching all of their friends and family.

A former New York City nightclub bouncer has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for kidnapping a young woman as she walked home from class.

Zalmai Anwari, 24, was shot and killed on Dec. 29, while trying to intervene in the robbery of a wireless store in Sheepshead Bay.

Bryan Garaventa, 18, Rosebank, is led into Stapleton Criminal Court after his arrest in November.

The mystery of what happened to a neighbor of John Gotti may finally be solved. The fate of the neighbor who accidentally killed John Gotti 's son in a traffic accident has been one of city's darkest and most ...

For Senator Chuck Schumer, it's apparently better politics - and karma - to name the Brooklyn courthouse for a Republican son of Manhattan who died in 1919 than the dominant Brooklyn Democrat who saved New York ...

Overcome by tears, the former college student who escaped from murder suspect Darryl Littlejohn saw him sentenced Wednesday to 25 years to life in prison.

If Angela Lansbury as fictional private investigator Jessica Fletcher in Murder She Wrote lived in the Southwest Brooklyn's 68th Precinct in 2008, she would have nothing to write about for the year just ended.

Three New York teenagers have been charged with federal civil rights charges in connection with election night racial violence in which attackers shouted ``Obama.'' The three youths were charged with conspiracy ...

A construction official falsely billed $1.2 million for supplies not delivered to clean up a toxic ground zero skyscraper in exchange for cash, clothes and trips to the Caribbean, prosecutors said Tuesday.

In 1977, the Museum was a venue for the landmark exhibition that introduced the artist to the American public.

At a time when some retailers are forced to close their stores due to the weakening economy, AT&T Mobility is opening up new wireless retail locations - and creating new jobs - in Brooklyn.

Gilbert & George Finding God 1982 eighty four hand dyed photographs mounted in metal frames 166.5" x 238.5" Gilbert & George Existers 1984 mixed media 95.25" x 139" Gilbert & George The General Jungle or ...

More than $3 million was taken in for seven properties at an auction in Downtown Brooklyn late last month, according to the Public Administrator of Kings County.

One thing I've noticed when living in Brooklyn, NY is that there is a very strong connection between the people who live here and their pets.

Park Slope bar-goers: get ready to spill your guts. Competitive storytelling - yes, storytelling - is headed to Union Hall tonight, where a gaggle of griots will turn their real-life successes and failures into ...

Vernell Blackman , a senior at Canarsie HS in Brooklyn, NY, is looking to make a name for himself.

In the heyday of Coney Island the lights at night from Luna Park, Steeplechase Park, and Dreamland - there were almost two million lights in all - were so bright they could be seen from as far as thirty miles ...

Red Hook is probably best known as that rough-and-tumble nabe that, thanks to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, is severed from the rest of Brooklyn like an amputated limb.