Author: Joseph Alexiou (Joseph Alexiou)

The illegal artist Posterboy—also known as Henry Matyjewicz, who rips up subway ads and turns them into art pieces to the chagrin of many, including the NYPD—was sentenced to 11 months in jail by a Brooklyn judge. It is ironic because he was recently awarded with an unusual probation deal, but missed the court date,...

The Brooklyn Navy Yard is seeking investors for its new $125 million expansion project, and hoping to attract foreign investors by offering the prospect of an EB-5 visa (created by the Immigration Act of 1990, which awards green cards to outsiders who invest U.S.-based projects) to folks who cough up from $500,000 to $1 million...

Furniture designers based in Red Hook are going to make a killing: they’re selling outrageously expensive wooden tables and chairs made from repurposed pieces of the Coney Island boardwalk. Jason Horvath and Bill Hilgendorf started Uhuru—Swahili for “freedom” and Nichelle Nichols’s character on the original Star Trek—seven years ago, and now their Coney Island pieces...

African American church leaders and politicians condemn the actions of police Friday evening after officers chased a car thief into the Shiloh Seventh Day Adventist Church at 1256 Dean St. during a sabbath service. Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries has charged the police with acting disrespectfully to a house of worship, claiming that more decorum would have...

The famous canary yellow 18-room mansion on 70 Willow St. in Brooklyn Heights is on sale for $18 million, surpassing the previous record for a Brooklyn home by almost $6 million. Capote—who rented a garden apartment from Oliver Smith, a Broadway art director—wrote “In Cold Blood” and other notable works while living there.  It has...

Legendary African-American actress, singer and civil rights activist Lena Horne died Sunday night in the New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Born in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bed-Stuy, the four-time Grammy winner also lived in Pittsburgh and Atlanta before striking out for a career in Hollywood. Originally contracted with MGM, she appeared in 22 films and...

The increasing appearance of warmer-weather tourists frustrates pedestrians and cyclists crossing the Brooklyn Bridge—a delicate a narrow lane of traffic is becoming more precarious than the pleasure stroll many intended.

An unidentified male bicyclist in his 20s was struck by a white 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan on Flatbush Ave., and Beverly Rd. in Flatbush. He was dragged under the van for half a block, a witness said. Police report that the biker died at the scene, and that the driver, also unidentified, was arrested.

Yesterday afternoon, the NYPD arrested two people at the 13 Thames Art Space, an art and performance space where the Fourth Annual NYC Anarchist Film Festival is being organized. The two arrested were members of the Independent Anarchist Media (I AM) Collective. At this time, the festival, planned for April 16, is still happening.