Professional basketball player, Olympic athlete and businessperson Michael Jordan was born on February 17, 1963, in Bedford Stuyvesant. His family moved to Wilmington, North Carolina, when Jordan was very young. Jordan developed a competitive edge at an early age. He...
Permits have been filed for an eight-story mixed-used building at 1031 Fulton Street in Clinton Hill. Located on the corner of Fulton Street and Downing Street, the vacant lot is six blocks east of the Clinton-Washington Avenue subway station, serviced...
Police are investigating the death of a 6-year-old boy that they found unconscious in the Farragut Houses complex on Tuesday night. Officers responded to a 911 call about an unconscious male in the 111 Bridge Street building around 7:16pm on...
A Bedford Stuyvesant woman who coped with an awful leak in her NYCHA apartment at the Tompkins Complex is expressing thanks now that it's been fixed. Back in August, Click here to view original web page at brooklyn.news12.com
Poet, playwright and essayist June Jordan was one of the most widely published and highly acclaimed African-American writers of her generation. Born July 9, 1936, in Harlem, New York, and raised in Bedford Stuyvesant. Jordan's future was shaped, for better...
One of the greatest, most successful hip-hop artists of all time, Jay-Z was born Shawn Corey Carter on December 4, 1969, in Bedford Stuyvesant. Carter's father, Adnes Reeves, left the family when Carter was only 11 years old. The young...
Singer and actress Lena Calhoun Horne was born in Bedford Stuyvesant on June 30, 1917. All four of her grandparents were industrious members of Brooklyn's black middle class. Her paternal grandparents, Edwin and Cora Horne, were early members of the...
A man has been arrested after his mother was found to stabbed to death, her body badly burned, at a home in Crown Heights Wednesday afternoon. Police were called to the apartment on Park Place around 2:55pm after co-workers of...
New Yorkers have long cultivated a taste for smoked fish, as in the nova salmon that accompanies a bagel and cream cheese. Now, the city’s most prominent company devoted to such fare hopes to bank on that appetite in a...
A new fair is set to alight on a barren but hip corner of Bushwick, the gallery-laden Brooklyn neighborhood. Founded by Abby Bangser, the former artistic director of Frieze for the Americas and Asia, Object & Thing will open at...
The latest Brooklyn apartments to hit the affordable housing market will cost renters $1,800-a-month, at least. Twenty-eight apartments at East New York and Schenectady avenues in Wingate became available on the NYC Housing Connect website Tuesday, city records show. The...
Richard P. "Richie" Havens was born January 21, 1941, in Bedford Stuyvesant. At an early age, he began organizing his neighborhood friends into street corner doo-wop groups and was performing with The McCrea Gospel Singers at 16. At the...
Police are investigating after four people were shot, one fatally, inside an apartment building in Brooklyn. The shooting happened at about 10:20pm Wednesday at 1778 Fulton Street near Rochester Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant. A 20-year-old man was fatally shot in the...
The Center for Fiction will officially move from its longstanding midtown Manhattan spot to Brooklyn with a grand opening party on Feb. 19, the nonprofit announced. The literary organization, which first announced last year that it would be relocating to...
Police are searching for a man wanted in a violent Sunday morning attack that left a woman with a large wound across her face. The attack happened at around 7:45am. on Feb. 3, when the man approached the 31-year-old female...
A Brooklyn middle school principal is accused of assaulting one of his students during a fight Wednesday in the cafeteria, police said. Derrande Moore, 42, an assistant principal at Gladstone H. Atwell Middle School in Crown Click here to...
Earl G. Graves was born on January 9, 1935, in Brooklyn and raised in Bedford Stuyvesant, where he learned hard work and perseverance from his parents, Earl Goodwin and Winnaford Colette Sealy Graves. Graves attended Morgan State University, where he...
The next culprit in a long list of the city’s non-affordable “affordable” housing lotteries is an opportunity for “middle-income” New Yorkers to apply for 28 units at East Flatbush’s new rental Ensemble. It’s available to New Yorkers earning 130 percent...
A couple of cement trucks went up in flames overnight in Brooklyn. The fire started around 1:30am on Johnson Avenue in Bushwick and spread from the trucks to some nearby cars. So far no injuries have been reported. It's not...
A Crown Heights soul food and pan-Asian jewel from alum of Saltie, Pok Pok, and Milk Bar is expanding to a place that most New York restaurants don’t — Africa. Tamra Teahouse opened last January at 1524 Bergen St., between...
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