Stuyvesant News

The hottest neighborhoods in Brooklyn are cooling off as the sinking economy gives home buyers cold feet.

Bryan Sathees, 26, began chatting with the 21-year-old woman as she browsed the offerings in the adult store at 61 W. 37th St.

The Harlem Piers park is open. A tipster sends a photo and writes: "The Harlem Pier park has opened across from Fairway on the Hudson River.

Taharka Robinson, community activist and founder of the Brooklyn Anti-Violence Coalition, stands proud in Crown Heights.

Bedford-Stuyvesant: Weird and sad: A female dwarf pimped a 15-year-old runaway out of her apartment here.

In every place in America where humans live, there are certain unique nightmare scenarios that don't translate elsewhere.

Kim Brathwaite displays a poster memorializing her two children, Justina and Justin, lost in a 2003 arson.

June 18, 2008 -- The city Department of Education's method of doling out $211 million in state aid wrongly benefits schools that are already succeeding, a new report charged.

Most recently used as a school, the four-story brownstone at 266 Stuyvesant Avenue in Bedford Stuyvesant still retains much of its original woodwork.

The city's child-services agency found the home of a Brooklyn woman accused of fatally beating a 3-year-old boy to be "in order" - even though she had a warrant out for her arrest in Texas for leaving her four ...

Actress Vanessa Williams has sex on the brain these days. It's a far cry from the matronly and doting housewife she portrayed on the defunct series Soul Food or the drug-dealing, ride-or-die female apprentice ...

July 12, 2008 Opening: Tuesday, June 10, 7 - 10PM Web Site more via ArtCal : Right off the bat, Brooklynite Gallery comes out swinging--- hitting a grand slam for its premiere show featuring new print works by ...

Tough to unload, number of REO properties in low-income neighborhoods grows Boarded-up house on Madison Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where several properties are owned by banks and investors.

And what a pretty head it is. Coney Island: It apparently was misreported that the man who fell through the floor of Ruby's Bar recently landed in a pile of crap.

When it was announced in late 2006, it was one of those deals that knocked the wind out of you: The Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village... Full Story FEATURED PROPERTY Every Thursday, NYP Home's reporters and ...

The town's historic railroad station was the setting for "Feet, Hooves, and Rails," a recent lecture by Professor Ward Regan of New York University.

Behind Chancellor Joel Klein's pleas for modest relief from Albany's school-spending rules is a simple question: Who should run public education in this city - state lawmakers or Klein and Mayor Bloomberg? And ...

Top state lawmakers yesterday flatly rejected Schools Chancellor Joel Klein's plea for them to loosen restrictions on how the city can spend millions of dollars in education aid.

FreshDirect, the Internet supermarket that delivers groceries to shoppers' doorsteps, received a flurry of e-mails last month from residents of the North Shore who wish they'd extend their reach to the other ...

Last week the Landmarks Preservation Commission calendered a proposal to designate two half-block cul-de-sacs in Bedford Stuyvesant a historic district.