Author: Jehangir Irani (Jehangir Irani)

Das Kapital Capital, the brainchild of Reddit.com founder Alexis Ohanian, will soon set up shop in Brooklyn. The 27-year-old Ohanian is looking to form a team of angel investors who’ll put their money into technology startups.

Whether it’s street art or a memorial remains to be seen, but Park Slope residents are talking about an abandoned white baby stroller with three plastic flowers.

Former New York Giants baseball player, Bobby Thomson, who hit “The Shot Heard ‘Round the World,” died on Monday at his home in Savannah, GA. Thomson is best remembered for hitting a three-run home run, in the bottom of the ninth inning, off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher, Ralph Branca. Thomson’s heroics helped the Giants beat the...

Lance Stephenson, a Brooklyn native and NBA rookie, was arrested yesterday and charged with assault after witnesses claim he pushed his girlfriend, and baby’s mother, down a flight of stairs. Stephenson was drafted this year by the Indiana Pacers.

Three new buildings – a pair of six-story condominiums and a 64-room boutique hotel– are being planned at North 11th and 12th Streets, near McCarren Park. The apartments begin at just under $500,000 and top out at $1.6 million.

The Brooklyn Bridge, one New York’s most iconic symbols, will undergo a four-year-long renovation, beginning next Monday. The city will pitch in $286 million of the total $508 million that the project will cost. The remainder will be paid for by the federal government.

Russian billionaire, Mikhail Prokhorov, has petitioned the NBA to allow him to change the name of his recently-acquired. But some of us wonder: Is the name really that bad, or is he just trying to make a buck off the new merchandise, should the name change be approved?

Harold C. Turner, a right-wing talk show, host was convicted on Friday for threatening the lives of three federal judges. A federal jury found that his blog entry declaring that they “deserve to be killed,” and the posting of the judges’ photos, was not protected under the First Amendment.

Grimaldi’s owner, Frank Ciolli, and landlord, Dorothy Waxman, are set to meet in court tomorrow. Waxman charges that Grimaldi’s owes her $57,000 in back rent and that payment deadlines from her previous suit against Ciolli have also been missed.

New York City’s Department of Correction (DOC) plans to re-open the Brooklyn House of Detention, which was closed in 2003. The DOC scrapped its original plan to double the number of beds, from 759 to just over 1500, after protest from the local community.