Author: Alexander Eriksen (Alexander Eriksen)

The Television studio once used by high school students for decades to make their own news and entertainment programs is being dismantled and hauled off for scrap, reports the New York Times. Edward R. Murrow High School in Midwood, Brooklyn can no longer afford to keep the studio open, and so a ton and a...

After US Airways Flight 1549, the so-called “Miracle on the Hudson”, was brought down by geese flying into the engine, federal officials have stepped up a crackdown on the birds, according to a story in the New York Times Magazine. Federal officials have expanded killing zones for geese seven miles around LaGuardia and JFK airports,...

Police Identified today Christopher Murphy, 33, of Bedford-Stuyvesant as the victim of a shooting on Tuesday night. Murphy was found after police responded to a 911 call at 916 Herkimer St in Bedford-Stuyvesant at 11:15 PM. Murphy had been shot once in the chest and once in the arm. He was pronounced dead on arrival...

Police today identified the victim of a shooting in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Tuesday night. Tyrone White, 27, of Van Buren St. was shot several times and killed at 7:14 PM Tuesday outside of 716 Jefferson Ave in Bedford-Stuyvesant. White was pronounced dead on arrival at Interfaith Hospital. No arrests have so far been made and the...

The Administration for Children’s Services did not intervene on behalf of a young Brooklyn girl who died from abuse, according to a story by the New York Times. Four-year-old Marchella Pierce, whose mother allegedly beat her and tied her to a bed, was found dead in the family’s Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment on Sept. 2. A preliminary...

The operator of the iconic Coney Island coaster is giving up her contract, leaving the city to find someone new to run the 83-year-old landmark, according to the New York Daily News. Just next door is a likely contender for the job, the Italian amusement company Zamparela that runs Luna Park. “The Cyclone is a...