Crown Heights News

A career criminal driving a dollar van in Brooklyn allegedly plowed into an NYPD scooter and sped off - leading cops on a dangerous chase, sources said yesterday.

THE number of police stops soared in two high crime Brooklyn precincts last year while the NYPD has pared back the controversial program citywide amid harsh criticism of racial profiling.

By Stephen Witt All four candidates looking to succeed term-limited City Councilman Al Vann and serve Bedford-Stuyvesant, Weeksville and parts of Crown Heights in the 36th Council District will probably be eligible to opt into the city's public campaign finance money, according to their most recent Campaign Finance Board filings.

The yard outside a warehouse in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, that has been transformed into housing and work space for artists.

Fatal ride: A man riding his bike was struck and killed by a livery cab near the Brooklyn Museum early on Sunday, police said.

The reason he was forced to resign is that he was such a despised member of Congress that his own party jumped at the chance to get rid of him He left Congress in disgrace, but don't blame his iPhone.

"Alligator Summer" by Dylan Lamb is an audacious farce in which two southern families have taken refuge in an attic, Anne Frank style, after an endless army of alligators have overrun their town.

A pedestrian and a cyclist are dead after a series of crashes in Brooklyn and the Bronx in which motorists also injured five other people.

The Park Slope hospital held it's candlelight gala at the Brooklyn Museum in Crown Heights on May 11, with cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, a raffle, dinner, and dancing.

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.

Description Position Summary Brooklyn Community Services seeks a mission-driven Chief Operating Officer who will be an integral member of the Executive Staff team at BCS.

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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.