Gravesend

This post has been updated; see below for details. The finalists for the 33rd L.A. Times Book Prizes were announced Thursday morning -- the complete list is below. In addition to the 50 books in 10 categories that are in the running for the awards,...

Forty years ago on August 22, 1972, a bank robbery at a Chase bank in Gravesend, Brooklyn changed the way the NYPD did business in hostage situations...and spawned an Oscar-winning movie starring Al Pacino. The real-life robber, John Wojtowicz,...

Con Edison is warning Brooklyn customers that, because of problems with electrical equipment, voltage is being reduced by 5 percent in certain neighborhoods. The neighborhoods affected are: Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bedford Stuyvesant, Clinton Hill, Fort...

Angelina Favuzza, Christie Livoti, Joey Lynn Tekulve and Valona Saka of Oxygen's newest reality show "Brooklyn 11223" stopped by to talk about the drama we can expect this season. Oxygen takes viewers to the close-knit Brooklyn community of Bay Ridge,...

A fast-moving four-alarm fire broke out at a business in Brooklyn early Tuesday morning. The blaze erupted at about 5 a.m. at a wedding planning business located at 1717 West 6th Street off Quentin Road, near King's Highway. When firefighters arrived in...

New York State Sen. Carl Kruger pleaded guilty Tuesday to four criminal counts an influence peddling case. Kruger, who broke down in tears during his plea before a Manhattan federal court judge, is accused of unfairly helping a developer, a lobbyist...

New York State Sen. Carl Kruger was sentenced to 7 years in jail after pleading guilty to four criminal counts in the infamous an influence peddling case. Kruger, 62, said that he was "broken" and said that he had destroyed the lives of those close to...

Calls from as far away as North Carolina and New Mexico have been pouring in, since the news broke: Coney Island Bialys and Bagels has been a hallmark of Brooklyn since 1920, but if business doesn't pick up soon, the bakery may close before October Jewish...

Authorities are investigating the possible murder of a coin-shop owner in Brooklyn, whose bloody body was found lying on the ground on East 7th Street near Avenue N in Midwood.   Cops found the unconscious victim, identified as 61-year-old Steven...

NEW YORK (KTLA) -- A passenger in the sightseeing helicopter that took off from the 34th Street heliport and then plunged into the river last Tuesday afternoon, died from injuries she sustained in the crash, Bellevue Hospital confirmed Wednesday. Helen...

A woman's body was found stuffed inside a plastic bag when it washed up on shore in Gravesend Bay Sunday evening. A shopping cart with a plastic bag inside it washed up on the rocky parts of Bath Beach, near Bay 20th Street and Shore Parkway, just before...

Police are searching for a driver who mowed down two boys riding a bicycle in Brooklyn Tuesday night. According to authorities, the two 12-year-old boys were riding along East 4th Street and Avenue S at about 10 p.m. in the Gravesend section when they...