NY1’S Pat Kiernan, every hipster’s favorite morning anchor, is moving from Manhattan to Williamsburg. Kiernan paid $2.02 million for an unassuming-looking three-story, four-bedroom townhouse with aluminum siding on Bedford Ave., records show. The Brownstoner blog called it the highest price ever paid for a single-family home in the Brooklyn neighborhood. Read more at: NY Daily...
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Disgraced Former Brooklyn Sen. Carl Kruger Sentenced for Corruption
Disgraced former Brooklyn Sen. Carl Kruger is trading his tacky Mill Basin mansion for the Big House. Kruger was sentenced to seven years in prison for taking $365,000 in bribes, much of which was spent paying the personal expenses of his “intimate associate” Michael Turano — and fixing up their gaudy love nest. Read more...
Police Arrest 14 in Drug Ring Operating Out of Brooklyn Bodegas
Fourteen suspected drug pushers were arrested for operating a narcotics ring in two Brooklyn bodegas across the street each other, police said. Read more at : NY Daily News
Stray Bullet Hits 8-year-old Girl in Brooklyn
An 8-year-old Brooklyn girl on her way home from church with her parents was grazed in the left foot by a stray bullet, police said. Read more at: NY Daily News
Brooklyn Shelters Homeowners With Longest Foreclosures
New York’s Kings County, also known as Brooklyn, wears the crown as the U.S. community where it takes longest to foreclose on a delinquent homeowner. Read More at: Bloomberg.com
DOE Takes Brooklyn School Off Closure List At The Last Minute
The Department of Education has taken Brooklyn’s Bushwick Community High School off the list for closure ahead of tonight vote by the Panel for Education Policy. Read More at NY1
Brooklyn Store Clerk Says Video Proves NYPD Framed Him
A Brooklyn bodega clerk says the NYPD framed him and the store surveillance tape proves it. Read more at NY Daily News
Trendy Hotels Come To Brooklyn
More hotels are being built in Brooklyn, especially in Williamsburg, and downtown. Read more at NYTimes.com
New Nets Logo To Be Unveiled Monday
On Monday, Nets officials plan to debut the team’s new logo. Read more at The New York Post.
It’s “Super Snoozeday” In Fort Greene For GOP Primary
It’s the GOP’s Republican Primary in New York today and there’s a dead silence inside P.S. 46 elementary’s gymnasium in Fort Greene. The nomination has already been decided for Mitt Romney, so New York City’s few Republican supporters didn’t to show up cast ballots in large amounts today. Read More at: http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/04/gop-primary-new-york.html