Brooklyn News

Two of New York's best-known waterfront neighborhoods took a beating last fall from Superstorm Sandy: Coney Island in Brooklyn and the Rockaways in Queens.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration released a new evacuation map on Tuesday, creating a more zone system and adding 600,000 additional people to evacuation areas.

Here's a story that I think most area residents can file under "No shit." Still, while we knew the truth through our own experience, there's now some data that proves Brooklyn has some of the city's most reckless drivers.

Here it is: Almost exactly a year and a half after the project was first announced , famed New York barbecue chain Dinosaur Bar-B-Que is opening its doors to Gowanus tonight at 5 p.m. This is the Syracuse-based chain's seventh location- its first in Brooklyn-and it joins Fort Reno BBQ on suddenly-barbecue-heavy stretch of Union Street straddling ... (more)

If you're on the hunt for a taste of the shtetl in New York City, there's no place better than the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights.

An NYPD officer fatally shot an armed robbery suspect who opened fire on officers responding to a victim's cries for help, police said.

Tropfest, which calls itself "the world's largest short-film festival," started in Australia 21 years ago; it's since expanded to several continents.

The director of the National Security Agency testified Tuesday that the government's massive surveillance program helped thwart more than 50 terrorist "events" worldwide since Sept.

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.