Author: Lenore Cho (Lenore Cho)

Rosemarie O’Keefe, who headed the city’s first Community Assistance Unit under Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s administration in the 1990s, was honored Saturday in a street renaming ceremony in the Bay Ridge neighborhood where she lived. A year after the activist died of cancer, Bay Ridge Parkway and Fifth Avenue is now “Rosemarie O’Keefe Way.” The Daily...

A  Brooklyn charity created in 2004 with the help of state Sen. Kevin Parker used most of the taxpayer funds he steered to it to hire the brother of his chief-of-staff, the Post reports. The Post found that Building Blocks Local Development Corp. has no office or discernible staff and was sporadic in filing tax...

Police are seeking a man for questioning in the death of James Williams, 30, who was found with a gunshot wound to the back of the head in front of 357 W118th St. in Manhattan on Saturday. Police took two suspects into custody in relation to the incident. They are seeking Donnell Logan, 21, AKA...

After-school programs at PS 295 and PS 282 in Park Slope, along with the summer program at IS 113 in Fort Greene are being eliminated by the Department of Youth and Development as part of budget cuts across the city. A spokesman told the Brooklyn Paper that the programs are being continued only in the...

Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes has indicted 32 people for welfare fraud, he announced today. Hynes said the defendants – some of whom are financially well-off and own homes and businesses – stole about $1 million in benefits, the Post reports.

Two witnesses testified for the prosecution as the murder trial for Keith Phoenix and Hakim Scott resumed after a long weekend break. Kuson Nelson, a resident of Bushwick Avenue, testified that he was returning home the night of the incident and saw part of the altercation where Jose Sucuzhanay was killed Dec. 7, 2008. Nelson testified that...

Just a year after joining a union, staffers at KIPP AMP Academy Charter School in Crown Heights voted to rescind the decision to sign up with the United Federation of Teachers, the Times reports. The petition to break from the union was filed last week with signatures from 16 staff members, including a dean of...

Berkeley College has signed a lease for property at the Fulton Mall, Brownstoner reports. The business-oriented school offers online programs in addition to over 8,000 students at its seven existing locations in New York and New Jersey. The downtown Brooklyn location will be its first New York City outpost outside Manhattan.

A suspect involved in a burglary last night in Marine Park fired his gun at police responding to the 911 call and then shot himself in the head as he fled. After the man fired his weapon at police, a Sergeant shot him once in the right leg before the suspect fled onto Quentin Road,...

The remains of a 25-year-old Brooklyn woman who disappeared after leaving a Chelsea night club in 2008 were discovered in a wooded area outside Scranton, Pa. Laura Garza was last seen on Dec. 3, 2008 as she left the club with Michael Mele, 24, a convicted sex offender. Mele remains the main suspect in the...