Oprah Visits Hasidic Brooklyn
The Queen of Media, Oprah Winfrey, interviews various people from the tight-knit Hasidic communities of Borough Park and Crown Heights. Read more at the Huffington Post
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Tension High as Thousands Crash Hearing for Closing of 23 Schools
Friday, February 10, 2012
Despite outcries from protesters, including Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, the Department of Education voted yesterday to close 23 failing schools in Brooklyn. Read more at the New York Daily News
Parents Come Forward to talk to FBI about Brooklyn Teacher’s Aide
Thursday, February 9, 2012
After teaching aide, Taleek Brook, was accused earlier this week of sexually abusing children at PS 243 in Brooklyn, more parents and students are coming forward to report possible cases to the FBI. Read [...]
Stray Bullet Injures Woman in her East New York Home
Thursday, February 9, 2012
A stray bullet injured 81-year-old Agripina Camacho in her home in East New York on Wednesday. Residents told NY1 that the bullet entered through her window and hit the woman in her cheek. Camacho was taken [...]
Teens Break into Brooklyn Home
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Four teens burst into a Brooklyn couple’s home, wearing ski masks and brandishing weapons. Three took turns sexually assaulting the woman, who was 22, while the fourth perpetrator went to withdraw money with stolen ATM [...]
Brooklyn’s $10 Million Street
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Away from the hustle and bustle of Wall Street, bankers, and other high-level professionals and executives have found a new brownstone paradise: Columbia Heights. Residents of this strip of homes, averaging $10 million, boast about [...]
NYPD Officer Pleads Guilty to Gun Smuggling
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
A Brooklyn police officer pleaded guilty to smuggling charges, ranging from cigarettes to guns. Others involved included retired officers. The officer, William Masso, 48, was trying to make money on the side to buy a [...]
Brooklyn Yeshiva Student Alleged Victim Of Hate Crime
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Four people in Monsey, New York are facing hate crime charges after allegedly targeting a man during a robbery because he was Jewish. Police said three of the suspects had discussed finding a Jewish victim [...]
Son Charged in Mom’s Fatal Stabbing
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Police have arrested and charged a Brooklyn man with stabbing his mother to death in Prospect Heights yesterday. Andrew Bell, 28, is accused of killing his 43-year-old mother inside her second-story apartment at 487 St. [...]
FBI Arrests Brooklyn Teacher on Child Porn Charges
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
A teacher’s aide at a Brooklyn school was arrested again Monday by the FBI and charged with making child pornography videos of students he was assaulting at the grade school where he worked, authorities said [...]
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