Author: Lenore Cho (Lenore Cho)

After Prospect Heights resident Daniel Goldstein relented and took a $3 million buyout to vacate his condo, Forest City Ratner thought they were in the clear to begin razing properties to make way for their sprawling Atlantic Yards project. But a family has emerged from a property at 481 Dean St. and demanded $170,000 in...

A 48-year-old woman on her way to work Monday morning rescued a 2-year-old boy she spotted abandoned on a school bus in Sheepshead Bay. The van’s driver had secured the steering wheel with an anti-theft device after neglecting to drop the boy off at a nearby day care center an hour earlier. The Daily News...

Seven years after Spring Creek Park welcomed its first cricket players, the city’s Parks Department will install bathrooms at the public playing field. Cricket league officials resorted to renting a Porta Potti each year while waiting for construction of permanent facilities. The Daily News has more.

The mother of Keith Phoenix has told jurors that her husband – Phoenix’s father – is of Puerto Rican and Dominican descent. Defense attorney Philip J. Smallman said that Marietta Phoenix’s testimony could help weaken the prosecution’s argument that Phoenix’s alleged murder of an Ecuadorian immigrant was a hate crime – a charge that brings...

The attorney for defendant Keith Phoenix withdrew his initial request to call Phoenix’s mother-in-law as a witness in the ongoing hate-crime trial. Attorney Philip J. Smallman says Phoenix’s mother-in-law would have testified that she is a lesbian. Her testimony would have been key in the hate-crime trial to show that Phoenix’s family “never observed him...

Five Torah scrolls stolen from the Karlsburg Synagogue in Borough Park on April 28 have been returned to the congregation. The Torahs were valued at about $80,000 each and were turned over to police on Saturday. The Post has more.

The Angel of Music, a five-foot marble statue that graced the tomb of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, was once one of the most popular tourist attractions in New York State when it was erected in the 19th century. But for as long as anyone at the cemetery now can remember, it has been missing. Volunteers sifting...

The third week of the hate-crime trial of Keith Phoenix, 30, and his friend, Hakim Scott, 26, began at 11:30 a.m. Prosecutors will call two witnesses today. Moments ago, Scott confirmed he would not testify in the trial. Scott and Phoenix are on trial for allegedly shouting homophobic and racial epithets while brutally beating Jose...

The Brooklyn Ink is in court every day following the trial of Keith Phoenix and Hakim Scott who are charged with the hate-crime murder of Jose Sucuzhanay. Jeannette Neumann is reporting from Jay Street today.

Pedestrians and cyclists stand to benefit from a plan unveiled last week by the Bloomberg administration to rejigger the Grand Army Plaza. The seven-way intersection and rotary circle is a labryinth for motorists and  a leap of faith for pedestrians. The plan calls for new traffic islands and crosswalks in addition to a two-way bicycle...