Crown Heights

Police say there is a serial butt-slapper terrorizing subway trains in Brooklyn. According to authorities, they have received nearly a dozen reports of a man slapping the buttocks of women riding the subway in and around Crown Heights. The incidents...

Tens of thousands of revelers gathered in Brooklyn to celebrate Caribbean culture Monday at the West Indian American Day Parade, as bright beaded costumes and feather headdresses also provided a lively backdrop for New York City politicking. With...

CROWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. (WPIX) -- A Utica Avenue bodega in Crown Heights was the scene of a deadly robbery Wednesday night that left the owner and his son dead of gunshot wounds. Police say 50-year-old Mohammed Monsoor Abuzaid and his 18-year-old son Abdul...

BROOKLYN, N.Y (WPIX) -- A man inside a Brooklyn deli where the owner and his son were shot dead says he survived the frightening ordeal by playing dead while the masked gunmen went on a shooting rampage. The 38-year-old father, who worked at Utica Deli &...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. (WPIX) -- A paroled rapist who served 15 years in jail for attacking two 12-year-old girls is in police custody at Montefiore Medical Center, arrested and charged in connection with last week's double murder in a Crown Heights deli....

CROWN HEIGHTS, N.Y (WPIX) --  More details are emerging in the death of a young boy who plunged from the top of a 13-story apartment building in Crown Heights Tuesday night. According to police, Domori Miles, 9, made his way to the top of the apartment...

We're not sure what route, exactly, takes you from "New Jack City" to "All My Children," but Mario Van Peebles has traveled it. Van Peebles is joining the cast of the ABC soap opera later this month. It's his second foray into daytime drama; one of his...

NEW YORK - If these days you feel like you're hanging by a limb, scratching you're head wondering: What is there to do, that's cheap and fun in New York City? How about swinging by the Bronx Zoo? Admission is on a pay as you wish donation every...

NEW YORK, N.Y. (WPIX) -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg should have no problem coasting right into a third term in office. According to a new survey, most voters don't even know who the two democratic challengers are. In the eye-opening report conducted by...

LOS ANGELES -- Local memorial services for the victims of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India -- one of 25 "Sister Cities" of Los Angeles -- were held Sunday. One memorial and prayer service was held at the ultra-orthodox Jewish Chabad House in...

Sooner or later every New York City mayor faces the kind of nightmare event that mocks his message. Ed Koch won fame for improving morale and procedures, then departed after corruption and crime. David Dinkins rode in on racial healing......

Friday June 15, 2001      "Our Song" will surprise you. Like the quiet stranger who turns out to have something to say, this modest film has virtues that come out of nowhere. It takes familiar material and develops it with such tact and skill that we...