Crown Heights News

The good will of faith-based groups on Bedford Avenue radiates into the side streets like rays of sunshine.

Reviews are still coming in for TheA Great GoogaMooga , the elaborate foodie-centric festival held in Brooklyn's Prospect Park on May 19 and 20.

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A top Brooklyn prosecutor has reportedly resigned amid questions over her handling of a racially charged Crown Heights prostitution case.

A top sex-crimes prosecutor from the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office is out - just weeks after a sensational sex-trafficking case on her watch began unraveling, The Post has learned.

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That Al Sharpton has no shame should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed the career of America's foremost racist demagogue and lynch-mob leader.

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Police say they've arrested a man in connection with the Brooklyn sneaker store shooting Monday evening that wounded a man and a boy, who were bystanders.

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Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, running to replace Congressman Ed Towns as the representative for the newly redrawn 8th Congressional District , visited the Manhattan Beach Community Group last week to introduce himself and discuss his stance on the issues expected to play a key role in this year's election.

Well, there's some good news and bad news this week in Bed-Stuy crime. Good news first: The NYPD just released statistics surrounding gun murders in North Brooklyn in 2011 , and Brooklyn is down 13 percent -- more than three times the citywide rate of decline! The bad news is, the borough still leads the city in gun violence.

A Patch reader Eustace Greaves Jr. uploaded these photos of an open manhole on Underhill Avenue this morning.

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The highest-end Hassidic art gallery in the world opens its doors Thursday with an exhibition on Empire Boulevard in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

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You gain some. You lose some. A sudden surge in the number of black residents moving out of Bed-Stuy, Clinton Hill and Crown Heights and moving into East New York is making it one of the fastest growing neighborhoods in Brooklyn, reported the Daily News .

A violence interruptor with Save Our Streets talks with a resident in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y. / By Brian Harkin, for USA TODAY BALTIMORE - Two men scuffle on the ground one cool morning on the main strip of McElderry Park, near downtown Baltimore.

Cobble Hillers who are excited to have a quick ride on theA new blue "Citi Bike" A will have to wait a year until theA Department of Transportation's Bike Share A program comes to the neighborhood.