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Surveillance video shows the men scaling the side of a building and carving into the colorful artwork mounted above a pizza shop on Nassau Avenue.

An antisemitic brute who pummeled a Jewish man and stole his yarmulke on board a Brooklyn train in a vicious hate crime Tuesday morning remains at large, police reported.

The top speeder, who drives often in southern Brooklyn, has been caught speeding by school zone speed cameras more than 1,000 times since mid-2023, according to new data from Transportation Alternatives and Families For Safe Streets. 

Vacant NYCHA apartments rose to 6,740 in May 2025 from approximately 2,840 in January 2022. Some of the vacant apartments, without adequate security measures, create opportunities for illegal occupancy by unauthorized individuals, some of whom use the apartments as a base for illegal activities, city investigators found.

High retail prices, online scams and auto issues topped New Yorkers’ complaints in 2025, according to the Office of New York Attorney General Letitia James.

You can listen to the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, write poetry and learn how to protect the sea.

Ahmed Elnahtawy, 24, was arraigned Tuesday and charged with rape, sexual abuse, forcible touching and sexual misconduct. He is accused of assaulting the teen at her home in Flatbush.

An MTA bus driver was arrested after allegedly punching a 16-year-old during an argument near Bay Parkway, leaving the teen hospitalized with possible facial injuries.