Crown Heights News

Before venturing to New York, where she was "exposed to food that gave me the push to get a job in a kitchen," Lisa Giffen lived in LA, working for Sharpie.

"So many of the civic successes heralded by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg," Ginia Bellafonte wrote in The New York Times back in 2012 , "might have happened in Lithuania for all the effect they have had on the lives of people in Brownsville," which Ms.

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Last week, The Post revealed that some postal workers were scared to deliver to gang-infested Brownsville.

Suri Cruise to Launch Fashion Line?: The Sun reports that Suri Cruise, daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, has signed a multi-million dollar deal to launch her own fashion line.

The man wanted in connection with a 2012 rape and robbery in Brooklyn was arresetd one day after the NYPD released a picture of him.

The new cheese shop in Crown Heights may be called Wedge, but Sliver would be more like it.

The victims were stabbed at 852 Saint Johns Pl., near Nostrand and New York avenues, about 5 a.m., police and fire officials said.

Police are searching for a 27-year-old Brooklyn woman who was last seen leaving her parents' home Saturday night and failed to show up to her job the next day.

Rising Brooklyn politician Eric Adams, a retired NYPD captain, was among the targets of a federal criminal probe , court records revealed Wednesday.

The names of eight New York politicos currently in the crosshairs of federal investigators must be unsealed for the public Wednesday afternoon, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

Mazel tov: Rabbi Shimon Hecht welcomed the grand opening of Park Slope's Jewish ritual bath - a three-story facility on 15th Street where observant Jews ritually bathe in purification pools.

The former congressman is on a political-comeback tour and appears days away from announcing his entry into the Democratic race for mayor.

Why get approval to build when it is unnecessary? Whatever the Orthodox community wants, they get.

"I want the salon to be versatile. I want to see a white girl getting a blowout, and a black girl getting a weave," she told The Cut .

Marking the launch of the Five Boro Story Project, producer Bridget Bartolini, author/performer Michele Carlo, and filmmaker Heather Quinlan have come together to present "I'm Tawkin' Here: Storytelling with a New Yawk Accent," a citywide celebration of New York storytellers and musicians.

A gunman opened fire on cops last night, leading to an exchange of gunfire and a pursuit through the streets of Brooklyn, a police source said.

Deaths by gunfire in the city are down dramatically, far lower than the national rate, according to a new study - and Mayor Bloomberg credited his policing strategies for the downturn.

New York, April 29: Actor Anthony Mackie is expanding his restaurant business by opening a Cuban restaurant here.