Author: Bryan Koenig (Bryan Koenig)

Former Congressman Anthony Weiner is dipping his toes back into politics, seriously considering running for mayor of New York City. Weiner has been in and out of the public eye since he resigned from the U.S. House of Representatives in 2011 after being caught sending lewd pictures of himself in electronic messages. The former representative...

A van driver was shot and killed in  Prospect Lefferts Gardens Tuesday afternoon. The shooting occurred around 1 p.m., with the driver crashing into a row of parked cars on Hawthorne Street immediately after he was shot. Witnesses described the shooter as a black male wearing a white t-shirt. Read more at nydailynews.com. 

Ebbets Field, home to the Dodgers when their title still started with Brooklyn, opened its doors for the first time 100 years ago today. Demolished in 1960, Ebbets Field was the sight of the first break in baseball’s color barrier, with Jackie Robinson taking the field as a Dodger April 15, 1947. Read more at Smithsonianmag.com. 

At least a dozen mezuzot, doorway decorations sacred to Jews, were burned in a Williamsburg apartment building Monday. Monday was Yom Hashoah in the Jewish calendar, the Jewish day remembering the Holocaust. Police are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime. Read more at NY1.com. 

For the seventh year in a row, Brooklyn made number two on the Council for Community and Economic Research’s annual list of America’s most expensive cities. Only Manhattan was more expensive. Prices of common goods are measured in each city against the professional standard of living. Read more at Yahoo!

The NYPD is looking for two suspects who robbed a Flatbush department store on Friday night. The two men brandished handguns when they entered the Get Set sports apparel store on Norstrand Avenue at 5:50 p.m. Friday. They took clothing and an undetermined amount of money, no one was injured. Read more at cbslocal.com.

New York will finally get part of its aquarium back on May 25, seven months after it was slammed by Hurricane Sandy. Not all of the 14-acre aquarium on Coney Island  will reopen but many exhibits will, including Glover’s Reef and exhibits of Africa’s Great Lakes and the Amazon. Read more at abclocal.com. 

Brooklyn residents were not happy after they got a look Thursday night in Red Hook at new flood maps drawn by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA officials told residents that buildings that received federal assistance after Hurricane Sandy will have to be elevated a foot above FEMA’s old guidelines. Residents expressed frustration at the costs and...

The 2-year-old boy who was among 12 people injured when a car jumped the curb in East Flatbush Saturday night has died. Denim McLein died Thursday night. He and his mother were both injured when a car jumped the curb and ran into scaffolding at Utica and Church avenues. The female driver told police the breaks failed....