Author: Laura Kusisto (Laura Kusisto)

This would be the coolest thing we’ve seen all week, if it weren’t so freezing outside we get frostbite even thinking about going for a bike ride. A vending machine at S. Sixth Street in Williamsburg outside Baruch Herzfeld’s Traif Bike Gesheft offers tires and other bike parts 24 hours a day, seven days a...

Check out this crazy picture of a man holding an M-4 at the Pacific Street station at City Room.

NYU has released a new report, asking the age-old question, “Where’s the money?” (in Brooklyn). It’s 20 pages, so you probably shouldn’t take an hour from the work day to read it. Instead, we did it for you. Here’s what’s been going down (and up) in Brooklyn in the last decade: Shocking Fact #1: The...

It’s Friday! Everything else is secondary. But here’s what’s going on around the borough: Marty Markowitz Wants You to Put That Cigarette Out And so do a lot of other important people. Brooklyn Borough Prez Markowitz, City Councilwoman Letitia James and other officials are launching their new “Brooklyn Smoke-Free Partnership” at the Brooklyn Borough Hall...

Police today arrested a Brooklyn health-care worked accused of beating a 67-year-0ld woman to death. The beating occurred Wednesday night, when the two women reportedly got into a fight.Police said Yamilette Hidalgo tried to cover up the beating of Maria Torres by saying someone else did it, Cityroom reports.

Nothing gets the neighbors more riled up than parking spots or wayward cyclists. Put the two together, throw in a 188-year-old church, and it’s pretty much the perfect storm. The First Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn Heights lets parishioners park in a bike lane on the side of the road on Sundays, Brooklyn Paper reports. They...

Guss’ Moves Lock, Stock and Barrels to BK By Yepoka Yeebo After 90 years of being a legendary LES institution Guss’ Pickles is loving its new home in Borough Park. “We started selling for Passover last Sunday,” said Pat Fairhurst, who has worked at the store, now at 39th and 15th, since 2004. “We’ve moved...

Police are enlisting help, after two rapes occurred in Clinton Hill over the past months. On Tuesday a 42-year-old woman said a man approached her with a gun, then dragged her to an empty lot and raped her. Police are asking members of the community to keep an eye out for the man, who they...

Johnny Maestro, a singer for the Brooklyn Bridges, died yesterday at the age of 70. We’re too young to know who they were, but apparently the helped break barriers back when singing about interracial harmony and infidelity were still taboo. Maestro, a native of the borough, reportedly picked the name for his smooth-tongued group when...

Community gardeners, students and faculty gathered today on the spot of a 14-year-old community garden to protest a college’s decision to pave over two-thirds of the growing space to make room for parking spaces and our reporter, Nathania Zevi, was on the scene. About 25 activists, set up white ropes to illustrate the 2,500-square-foot area...