Author: Lillian Rizzo (Lillian Rizzo)

Coney Island’s boardwalk still has hope for survival. State senator Carl Kruger said he is hoping to work with Mayor Michael Bloomberg in order to keep the businesses from being evicted, the New York Post reported. Kruger wants to create a deal with amusement park landlord Zamperla to keep establishments such as Shoot the Freak...

Borough President Marty Markowitz gave out 1,000 turkeys and about six tons of Thanksgiving trimmings to Brooklynites yesterday at Borough Hall Plaza yesterday, the NY Post reported. Markowitz and Deputy Borough President Yvonne Graham distributed the goods to senior centers, soup kitchens and social service groups. The Bedford Stuyvesant and Red Hook Lions Clubs helped...

Wireless Generation, a privately held Brooklyn-based education technology company, became a unit of News Corp yesterday. According to Reuters, News Corp acquired 90 percent of the firm for $360 million. Wireless Generation, a 10-year-old company which offers mobile and web software to teachers to access student programs, will be managed by News Corp.

A Brooklyn rabbi scammed a $16 million hedge fund, the New York Post reported, for $4 million. Rabbi Milton Balkany had threatened the founder of SAC Capital Advisors that a prison inmate, who the rabbi was counseling, would turn information over to the feds of alleged insider trading, according to Manhattan federal prosecutor Jesse Furman....

A 16-year-old male resident of the Sutter Union Houses in Brownsville was shot and killed yesterday at approximately 6 p.m. Hakeem Gravenhise was shot multiple times in front of 2069 Union St. and taken to Brookdale University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. No arrests were made and The Brooklyn Ink’s Alex Gecan...

Voters in Park Slope endured a 35 minute delay at M.S. 51, the intermediate school at 350 Fifth Ave, The Brooklyn Ink’s Faaria Kherani reports. Poll workers could not get the new scanning machines up and running in time and several voters were late to work as a result, causing frustration for the constituents. According...

The man who has been accused of lying about allegedly attempting to travel overseas to Pakistan to join the Taliban and kill U.S. troops will begin his federal hearing in a Brooklyn courtroom today. Abdel Hameed Shehadeh, a U.S. citizen and former Staten Island resident, was arrested in Hawaii and flown back to New York...

Brooklyn artists will be contributing paintings and photographs to an “Empowerment”-themed art exhibit at Gallery 364 in Bay Ridge. The artworks are already included in a $20 wall calendar, being sold to raise money for domestic-violence victims. Proceeds will go directly to the Bay Ridge based nonprofit Women Against Violence, which offers counseling to women...

The 24-year-old Serbian Binghamton University basketball player was sentenced to 27 months yesterday for the 2008 assault of a Brooklyn-born classmate, the New York Post reported. Miladin Kovacevic fled to Serbia after allegedly beating Bryan Steinhaur in a bar and leaving him brain-damaged in May 2008. Kovacevic was already sentenced in Belgrade in September as...

Salman Rushdie will stop in Brooklyn on Nov. 16, the release date of his latest book, Luke and the Fire of Life. The novelist will be at powerHouse Arena bookstore on 37 Main St. in DUMBO to sign copies that were only bought in the store, from 1 to 1:30 p.m. Rushdie is a British-Indian...