A 78-year-old woman found out her wallet had been stolen after a man who claimed he knew her gave her a hug on Fifth Avenue, police said.
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Enrollment numbers for the first sixth-grade class since District 15 changed its admissions show that the plan did improve diversity.
A months-long art project aimed at elevating immigrants will end Saturday with seven artists revealing their final works in Prospect Park.
The "Your CBD Store" will bring its cannabidiol products to Park Slope's Fifth Avenue starting this weekend.
Brooklynites will rally before a forum on bus redesigns to ask that the B71 bus, which was cut in 2010, be brought back.
The Hoyt Street complex is one of more than 40 NYC public housing buildings getting new boilers or elevators through a $450 million plan.
A former employee is suing a Fifth Ave. pizzeria he said underpaid him, didn't call for help when he was having a stroke and then fired him.
This Maryland driver sent an NYPD traffic agent to the hospital after the cop wrote him a ticket on Park Slope's Fifth Ave., cops say.
The dine-in theater will bring back its short film festival, this time with events in Williamsburg and at its new location in Park Slope.
A forum on Wednesday will let residents tell city officials how a major construction project around Sixth Avenue has disrupted their lives.
"Goldfish Swim School," a national water safety group, will open their first New York City location in a warehouse buildng on Degraw Street.
A new apartment building will rise at the corner of Fourth Avenue and St. Marks Place, near three other planned 12-story buildings.
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The angry Trump statue that appeared in the Gowanus Canal is by the same artist who set up "Trump stumps" last year.
Five historic Gowanus spots were designated as landmarks in what advocates call a step to preserving the neighborhood ahead of its rezoning.
The Fifth Avenue bagel shop was given 64 violation points by health inspectors last week, records show.
The legendary Third Avenue Italian restaurant known for serving first responders since 1948 will shutter in December, Eater reports.
The internationally-known conductor will join the Brooklyn Youth Music Project for a free community concert this weekend.
When he's not leading Senate Democrats, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer is doing Brooklyn pizza taste tests and riding his bike around Park Slope.
The pretzel chain, which announced it'd be coming to Park Slope in July, will officially open its Fifth Avenue spot on Thursday.
You'd be mad too if someone threw you into the Gowanus.
A stretch of Seventh Street was officially named "Joe and Flo Leopoldi Way" over the weekend to honor the longtime hardware store owners.
The neighborhood's newest Korean hot spot was one of seven Brooklyn eateries to get a distinction from the Michelin-star-giving reviewers.
Police are looking for four people that got into a fight with workers at a Fourth Avenue laundromat and ended up stabbing one of them.
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One man is dead and another is in the hospital after two police-involved shootings, one in Gowanus and one in the Bronx, police said.
A new "Not Just Chocolate" shop on Fifth Avenue won't just make normal chocolate bars, but squirrels, golden wrenches and postcards too.
R.L. Stine will be one of several writers to share their creepiest stories in a darkly-lit puppet workshop the weekend before Halloween.
A man who set fire to a backpack on the synagogue steps was not motivated by bias, but getting rid of evidence from a robbery, cops said.
Police are looking for a man who put his backpack on the steps of the Jewish center Wednesday morning, lit it on fire and ran away.
A "Drag Performance Workshop" is one of three BK Arts Exchange classes where kids and adults explore complex topics, like gender identity.
Spoke the Hub Dancing and Koko NYC are teaming up to build a studio in their Gowanus Arts Annex, but need donations to make it happen.
The New York Times dubbed a Red Hook burger as one of the few "mandatory burgers in NYC," even better than the Luger patty it's inspired by.
Two neighborhood spots that promise to "escape the strollers and Lulu Lemon" landed on a list of the borough's best cheap watering holes.
Two digital road signs set up on Union Street briefly flashed "Ban Cars Stop Driving" and "Cars Ruin Cities" messages on Monday afternoon.
From familiar subway performers, to a new "Wicked Witch of the Upper East Side"â here's a sneak peek at the historic beauty pageant revival.
The theater will celebrate the prolific horror actor with a themed four-course meal, movie screening and conversation with his daughter.
Only three Brooklyn schools and eight across NYC got the coveted honor. See which South Slope charter made the list.
Police released new photos from two attempted rapes they believed were connected, and now say they might have two suspects.