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Photo: Gregory L. Ingram for BK Reader Now in its 48th year, the West Indian Day Parade and carnival is one of Brooklyn's biggest end-of-summer events, drawing close to two million people to Crown Heights during Labor Day weekend.

A man and a women were shot at Empire Boulevard and Flatbush Avenue during the pre-parade festivities in Crown Heights shortly before 4 a.m. The 20-something-year-old man, who was shot in his chest, died of his injuries, according to police.

Click here to view original web page at www.scarymommy.com As I stared at the footprint that my slipper had left on the bedroom wall months earlier, then down at my daughter, I knew that it was time to ask for help.

"The Art of Seeing" by Michael Milton I was walking down Schermerhorn Street one afternoon recently. Ahead of me was a slender black woman sporting a flowery Caribbean-style turban; she was accompanied by two young white children, a boy and a girl.

Grab your party hats and head on down to the Brooklyn Museum where you'll see an array of colors and sounds brought to you by the West Indian American Day Carnival Association (WIADCA).

A memorial erected for Sunday night's shooting victim The Crown Heights organization S.O.

Photograph: Courtesy CC/Flickr/Betty Tsang It looks like winter is coming for one of the best flea markets in NYC: organizers of the Brooklyn Flea announced on their website that the Flea will return to its old digs at Skylight One Hanson starting th

On Saturday, August 27, members of the Flatbush Tenant Coalition gathered for their second annual Cookout in Prospect Park.

On Sunday, thousands of people gathered in Restoration Plaza in Bed-Stuy to sway, jump, salsa and shimmy for one of the last installments of this year's Soul Summit dance party .

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — Carla Shallow said two things were clear: More families were moving into Crown Heights, and her young son would one day need help paying for college, according to local news sources .