Brooklyn Navy Yard developer strikes $150M refinancing deal for Admirals Row
Steiner New York City, the company that founded the Hollywood-inspired Steiner Studios for film and television production, has refinanced another key component of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The $148.5 million bridging loan from Deutsche Bank is for Admiral's Row, an eight-acre, 696,000-square-foot complex that is home to Wegmans and 350,000 square feet that is master […]
Brooklyn restaurant at center of illegal migrant-driven food-vending scheme
A dingy Brooklyn restaurant, with a long list of damning health code violations, is the center of an illegal sales scheme involving dozens of immigrant women, who are on the move across the Big Apple. It turned out that people were buying and selling meals prepared in filthy kitchens on street corners. Amid growing concern […]
Former Brooklyn Nets co- owner sues Citibank over closed card
The former co-owner of the Brooklyn Nets, who spent millions on Citibank credit cards, claims that Citibank “unceremoniously dumped” him and 29 million “Thank You Points” worth $300,000. There is. Arthur RabinThe Wear Me Apparel co-founder, who sold his interest in Brooklyn's basketball team several years ago, has made between $200,000 and $300,000 a month […]
Man dangling off Brooklyn Bridge flips bird to cops trying to save him
Brave NYPD officers saved the life of a barefoot man who threatened to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday and even flipped a bird over a police officer before dangling precariously from the famous bridge. Police responded at 3:17 p.m. to reports of a man climbing the outside portion of the bridge near the […]
NYC woman killed by unmarked NYPD squad car in Brooklyn
An NYPD officer driving an unmarked patrol car struck and killed a woman who was lying on the street in Brooklyn on Wednesday night, police officials and witnesses said. Officials said the plainclothes officers were driving an undercover Toyota minivan north on Pennsylvania Avenue in East New York when they struck an unidentified woman at […]
Long-hidden space under Brooklyn Bridge reopens after 15 years — and public is in awe
A long-closed piece of land under the Brooklyn Bridge has reopened to the public for the first time in 15 years, bringing back new green space to one of the city's most congested neighborhoods. The 15,000-square-foot site in Lower Manhattan is part of a larger area known as “The Arches,” and was renovated and restored […]
Man, 91, and woman, 66, found dead with their necks slashed inside Brooklyn home
Two people were found decapitated Sunday afternoon in a gruesome scene inside a Brooklyn home. Police responded to a 911 call and found the victims, a 91-year-old man and a 66-year-old woman, brutally murdered inside a two-story home at 186 Warwick Street in Cypress Hills around 4:30 p.m. discovered by. said the police. The bodies […]
NYC masked man attempts to kidnap Hassidic Jewish boy from father in Crown Heights, Brooklyn
A horrifying video was released Saturday showing a masked man trying to rip a 6-year-old Hasidic Jewish boy from his father's arms as they walked together on the sidewalk in broad daylight. The boy's father was walking hand-in-hand with his two sons on the sidewalk in Crown Heights around 3:30 p.m. when a masked assailant […]
Fire erupts at NYPD’s Brooklyn auto pound, damaging 22 vehicles: sources
A fire broke out at an NYPD auto repair shop in Brooklyn on Wednesday, damaging 22 vehicles, two years after the fire destroyed decades of evidence at the facility, officials and sources said. revealed. The fire broke out at 12:47 p.m. at the Erie Basin Auto Pound in Red Hook, sending heavy smoke overhead, according […]
New York Republicans defeat incumbent, flip state Senate seat in Brooklyn red
Republicans won a state Senate seat in Brooklyn, according to unofficial election results Tuesday. Former NYPD sergeant Stephen Chan handily defeated first-term Democratic incumbent Iwen Chu in Brooklyn's southern 17th District, which includes Dyker Heights, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst and Sunset Park. With more than 90% of constituencies reporting, Mr Chan received 27,865 votes (55%) and […]