Author: Camilo Hannibal Smith (Camilo Hannibal Smith)

Riding the wave of publicity following this month’s release of Jay-Z’s Autobiography, “Decoded”, Penguin imprint Portfolio announced the March 2011 release of “Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went From Street Corner to Corner Office.” It’s a Jay-Z biography by Forbes writer, Zack O’Malley Greenburg, who has covered the business side to the platinum Bed-Stuy rapper....

The New York City Economic Development Corporation is looking to add a  $10-million Smart Grid Demonstration Project at the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park, according to a press release. “The Project will include a solar PV system at BAT capable of producing at least 600,000 kilowatt hours of electric power annually … while simultaneously offsetting...

An Associated Press story reports that the arrest of 17 people on charges of fraudulent Holocaust survival stories has cost some residents of Brighton Beach and other parts of Brooklyn access to benefits paid by a nonprofit group.  They must  “either appeal or repay tens of thousands of dollars,” to the Conference on the Jewish...

Norman Adie, the former owner of the Brooklyn Heights Cinema, was charged in connection with a scheme to defraud investors of more than $500,000.  A court complaint says Adie told his investors that he planned to turn the Brooklyn theater into condominiums, promising up to 13.5 percent in returns. According to the New York Times, Adie...

Gov. David Paterson will include the renaming of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel for Governor Hugh L. Carey in a state Legislature special session. Carey was the 51st governor of New York, and was born in Park Slope in 1919. The reason for the special session next Monday, is “to address the $315 million current-year deficit and additional...

Four and Twenty Blackbirds is a renowned pie shop in the Park Slope/Gowanus section of Brooklyn.  Some of their top-shelf offerings include pies made with salted caramel apple, bittersweet chocolate pecan, bourbon sweet potato and honeyed pumpkin, according to a report  at NBC New York. Customers form lines at the crack of dawn for this 3-day sweet...

The New York Post reports on a Bloods gang drug smuggling operation that linked Brooklyn and North Carolina. According to Brooklyn DA, Charles Hynes, former Brooklynite Kyle Leonard, 25, was indicted on weapons charges yesterday in the sale of $17, 650 worth of weapons. The undercover sting, nicknamed, “Operation Tarheel,” took 22 guns off the...

The blog, McBrooklyn, reports that HBO’s financial crisis movie “Too Big To Fail,” will affect parking all weekend in the Borough Hall area. Parking along Court Street and Remsen Street, near Borough Hall won’t be possible through today. Tomorrow, parking spaces along Court Street, Montague Street and Joralemon Streets will be taken over by movie...

The Daily News has an exclusive report today on teenage gang members in Brownsville engaged in a deadly turf battle. The dispute has claimed two young lives. The Hood Starz, who claim Marcus Garvey Village, and the Brownsville Fly Guys, who claim adjacent Marcus Garvey Houses, have been warring since the summer. Officers in the...