Brooklyn News

Looking to get freaked out? Propaganda, Lake Worth's resident rock spot, is switching it up this Wednesday and featuring an act that plays with your eyes instead of for your ears.

Police arrested the heartless man accused of stabbing a livery cab driver in the eye with an umbrella in Brooklyn.

A woman from a ritzy New York suburb has been indicted on charges that she grew thousands of marijuana plants in a city warehouse.

Police have charged 28-year-old Shamel Allen with manslaughter following the stabbing death of a livery cab driver with an umbrella in Brownsville last Thursday.

AT&T today announced a pilot project of solar-powered charging stations across all five of New York City's boroughs where the public can charge phones, tablets and other devices for free.

A Brooklyn teenager awaiting sentencing in a Yonkers robbery has been charged with trying to break into a village home, police said Tuesday.

Nearly 3 million New Yorkers' homes are now in evacuation zones that cover more than a third of the city's population, under new maps released Tuesday.

According to a June 17 post from Stereogum.com, Brooklyn 's concert season is heating up this summer with a series of exciting shows at the Cameo Gallery.

According to our own cover story , Bobby "Rock Eagle" Drake was an auto mechanic at Brookside Amoco in St. Louis Park just before he joined the Hold Steady in 2005.

Mayor Bloomberg wants to cordon off the toxic Coney Island Creek and converting it into a giant swamp in hopes of protecting the former island - and Brooklyn's other Southern Brooklyn waterfront properties - from the next Hurricane Sandy.

As the days wind down to November 5--when New Yorkers will choose their first post-Bloomberg leader--the would-be mayors continue their mad dash for donors, seeking large contributions from New York's most powerful elites.

Brooklyn's $3 billion tech boom will get another boost with a slick "Tech Triangle" development project that includes a massive helium observation balloon overlooking it all.

A new strategic plan to be released on Tuesday shows how Brooklyn can surpass Silicon Valley as a technology hub.

Thrifty Car Rental says it's sorry, but many customers who were offered a free one-day rental won't be getting that after all.

Careless drivers going twice the legal limit on Brooklyn streets helped the borough earn its dubious distinction as the city's deadliest place for traffic and pedestrians.

Nearly nine in ten Brooklyn drivers is speeding, and three in ten are traveling more than 10 mph above the speed limit.

More than 300 would-be Brooklynettes showed up to dance tryouts over the weekend, but coach Adar Wellington and a panel of judges tapped just 40 finalists after two days of grueling auditions.

Damage such as this from last month's GoogaMooga has yet to be repaired, and park advocates worry that Tropfest's crowds next weekend will turn the Nethermead into an even muddier mess.

Mexican cuisine has been popular for a long time, but my recent travels around our country have persuaded me that fish tacos are big now in a way they never were before.

The Brooklyn Bike Patrol, an all-volunteer escort service that walks women home after dark, shut down its services after founder Jay Ruiz suffered two heart attacks earlier in the week.