Tag: Brooklyn
As cities around the world compete to be the next Brooklyn, at least one retailer is pushing the cool branding of the borough further. The Dumbo-founded home furnishing store West Elm is offering a line of products that include hats, growlers, and T-shirts bearing the phrase “Made in Brooklyn,” none of which are actually made in Brooklyn. […]
While the rest of the city is celebrating that the NYPD slowdown hasn’t given way to a spike in serious crime, robberies are up in one Brooklyn neighborhood. DNAinfo reports that residents of North Williamsburg and Greenpoint have seen a nearly 24% rise in burglaries — the neighborhood’s biggest criminal issue — in the past […]
If getting electrocuted, jumping into freezing water, and falling through a ring of fire doesn’t seem extreme enough for your fun times, how about throwing in a little tear gas? That’s what Brooklyn-based obstacle course designer Tough Mudder is doing with its latest grueling endurance test. Tough Mudder organizes more than 50 events around the […]
This ranks high on the list of disturbing things to have appeared in New York’s waterways: A human hand was found floating in Brooklyn on Sunday night. Police responded to the call around 5 PM, reports NBC, saying that the hand “appeared to have been in the water for a while.” They didn’t find any […]
City officials announced on Wednesday that they are moving to honor slain Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos by naming two Brooklyn streets after them. Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito announced their support for a bill sponsored by Council Members Mark Treyger and Rafael Espina, who represent the slain detectives’s […]
The FDA just released a letter detailing the conditions of an East Williamsburg Chinese food distributor and among the many insane findings there was a “rodent’s nest with multiple rodents in a plastic-lined box in a cooler that had thawing rib meat on top of melons.” Seriously. Daily Finance outlines the other prominent violations that were cited […]
In a month that has brought increased criticism of the NYPD, the New York Times has released a report that gives even more reason to be wary of police officers. The Times writes that a string of arrests for gun possession in Brooklyn in recent years “suggest a pattern of questionable police conduct and tactics” […]
Police responding to the stabbing of an Israeli student in a Brooklyn synagogue shot and killed the suspect after he refused to drop a knife, reports the Daily News. The man, identified as Calvin Peters, reportedly screamed, “I want to kill the Jew!” when he re-entered the basement of the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters early Tuesday. Peters reportedly stabbed 22-year-old […]
Residents in Brooklyn are now able to check out Wi-Fi hotspots for up to one year, at no cost if they meet certain criteria. For now, card-carrying visitors to public libraries in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville, and Bushwick will have the opportunity to take home free broadband access as part of a $2 million program funded by Google and […]
Check out the moves of 30-year-old Shawn “Puba” Theagene and Justin “Rain” Quinones, two members of the Bed-Stuy Veterans, a dance troupe in Brooklyn that will soon be celebrating its 12 year anniversary. According to DNAinfo, the Veterans have auditioned for American Idol and are gearing up to release a documentary next year about the […]
