Crown Heights News

It's not quite at the level of Paradou owner Vadim Ponorovsky versus his staff , but the Times detects some tension from two new coffee shops on Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights.

A fast-moving fire that may have been sparked by incense swept through the top floor of a six-story apartment building in Brooklyn on Wednesday, killing a man and his two small children, fire officials said.

New York - It took Brooklyn firefighters as long as eight minutes yesterday to arrive at a blaze that killed two toddlers and their dad - and it was the second time in two weeks the Bravest lost precious time by being sent to the wrong location.

The Pulp and the Bean, above, on Franklin Avenue, in Brooklyn, is owned by a man whose family has a history in the neighborhood.

Firefighters called to a deadly blaze in Brooklyn on Wednesday were sent to the wrong address raising concerns about the new 9/11 dispatch system.

Rose-Daniel Etienne-Jean , who lost two sons and boyfriend, is comforted by aunts Marie Joseph & Gislene Pierre.

NEW YORK, NY November 20, 2009 a 'Elected officials and community leaders in Brooklyn are rallying around the family of three victims in Wednesday's Crown Heights fire.

There was debate Thursday over a new fire dispatch system after a father and two boys died in a Crown Heights blaze apparently sparked by burning incense.

Fire investigators believe a fire that killed two toddlers and their father may have been started by burning incense in a bedroom.

Stephen Cassidy of the Uniformed Firefighters Association says the deaths caused by a deadly fire in Crown Heights on Wednesday could have been prevented.

Shaking as two relatives helped her onto a sofa, Rose Danielle Etienne, 26, sobbed Thursday afternoon as she spoke of a fire that had swept through her apartment in Brooklyn the day before, killing her longtime companion and their two young sons.

Share + Nov 19, 2009 7:08 am US/Eastern Reporting Magee Hickey NEW YORK 1 of 1 Two children and an adult were killed after a fire broke out in a 4-story building in Crown Heights, Brooklyn on Nov.

A fire inspector surveys the damage after a deadly fire ripped through a Brooklyn apartment Wednesday.

Two toddlers and a man died after a blaze tore through their six-story building Wednesday afternoon.

Two children and an adult died after a massive fire swept through a six-story apartment building in Crown Heights.

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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was getting an earful. "He created this crisis so that he can take credit for fixing it and get our votes in exchange," one commenter wrote on a Brooklyn blog, Vos Iz Neias , Yiddish for "What is News." Someone else remarked, "I got to my store I got 2 tickets from the Sanitation police.

Moshe Holtzberg survived the Mumbai attacks, but his parents, Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg, the directors of Chabad-Lubavitch of Mumbai, were killed.

Few may recall the spectacular downfall of Marc S. Dreier , the prominent Manhattan lawyer who pleaded guilty to running an elaborate fraud scheme, because his house of cards fell just days before Bernard L. Madoff 's did.

The long Brooklyn Heights tradition of the Yuletide Ball will again be observed at the Heights Casino, 75 Montague Street, on Saturday, December 12, starting at 10 p.m. It will include dancing and dessert, following private dinners held beforehand.