Author: Alyson Martin (Alyson Martin)

At least if you want to be sure your food is safe and unspoiled. The State Department of Agriculture and Markets has said that re-labeling  food is legal after a woman complained that a Key Food in Brooklyn Heights did just that.  The customer found a chicken in the store with a “sell by date”...

When Ji-liek English gave a cashier a hard time on Tuesday at a Food Dynasty in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, his older brother had to do something, so he defended the woman. But when the argument escalated into the street, few could have predicted what happened next. According to the Daily News, Melson (LT) Simpson, 31,...

Several Bloods have been arrested for seeking out prostitutes for their sex ring from junior high schools. The Daily News is reporting that the gang members looked in schools in Bushwick, Brownsville and East New York for girls as young as 15 that they could force into selling their bodies for $500 a day for...

Yes… that Justin Bieber. (The kid with the hair that performed on Saturday Night Live when Tina Fey hosted a few weeks ago). Brooklyn tweens–and youngsters across the city, for that matter–are already going crazy for this Friday’s Justin Bieber performance as part of NBC’s Today Show summer concert series. The Bieber Love seems to...

Luna Park at Coney Island opened on Saturday in time for the warm, clear Memorial Day Weekend. Early reports indicate the boardwalk will be bustling this summer.  “My dad and grandfather used to tell me about Luna Park and the old rides,” Danny Montoya, 56,  of Queens, told the Daily News. “I think this is...

A man with previous gun charges was arrested early this morning in connection with Al-Taya Conyer’s shooting death on Wednesday night. NY1 is reporting that the 18 year-old man was Kendale Robinson of Red Hook, Brooklyn. Charges are expected today.

Sylvia Mena, a Brooklyn exotic dancer, says she was left pregnant by Washington Redskins’ defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth and is now suing him for $10 million. According to several news reports, the football star wined and dined Mena over the Super Bowl week last year and then dumped her when he learned she was pregnant.

Police are still searching for who killed 16 year-old Al-Taya Conyers in Boerum Hill two nights ago. What is becoming clear, though, is that the young woman had a history of stormy relationships, according to the New York Times. Conyers was shot four times and killed near her home Wednesday night at almost midnight. There...

A 19 year-old Brooklyn man was swept out to sea Wednesday when he and three friends were wading in the ocean on a beach in Long Island yesterday. Manuel Tiburcio’s friends were all rescued, but according to the Daily News, the search for Tiburcio was eventually called off. That same day, just a few hours...

The New York Police Department is looking for anyone who might have been involved in the fatal shooting of Al-Taya Conyers, 16, last night. Conyers was shot once in the head at about 11:45 p.m. at 450 Warren Street in Boerum Hill last night, police said. NY1 is reporting, however, that neighbors have said they...