Author: Lenore Cho (Lenore Cho)

The city has brokered a deal to bring a ShopRite to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a City-owned 300-acre industrial park surrounded by 12-foot-high brick walls. The area has been deemed a “food desert” by City Councilwoman Leticia James, who represents the area, the Post reported. The project is expected to break ground by early 2012...

The hit-and-run death of Neil Chamberlain last week on McGuinness Boulevard is the result of systematic “lawless driving” in the area, a study by Transportation Alternatives found. Since 2008, two people have been killed and two seriously injured on the strip. Volunteers found over eight hours, drivers ran red lights 150 times, yapped on their...

Construction crews are working around-the-clock to ensure Luna Park will be open for Memorial Day Weekend, the Post reports. The 19 new rides are modeled after the original Luna Park, which operated at the site from 1903 to 1944. The roller-coasters, swinging pendulums and teacups have been tested in Italy and are now arriving at...

Walmart is scouring locations in Brooklyn for its first New York City outpost, Crain’s reports. The Arkansas-based retail giant was unsuccessful in its attempts to open a location in Queens and Staten Island earlier this decade. One of the locations under consideration is the 630,000-square-foot Gateway II shopping center off Jamaica Bay, which is currently...

A gunman remains at large after shooting three men at the Magic Car Wash & Lube in Bushwick on Saturday. Police suspect a 37-year-old employee, who has shot once in the arm, was the intended target, the Post reports. Two customers who were waiting for their car to be serviced were shot in the legs.

A Coney Island man was killed last night at Shell Road and Bouck Court after his car jumped a curb and struck a stanchion on the F line last night. Constatine Beyn, 22, was pronounced dead after being transported to Lutheran Medical Center. Two female passengers were listed in serious but stable condition while a...

Despite a largely poor student body, P.S. 172 had the city’s highest scores on the standardized math tests given to fourth grade students with every student passing – all but one at an advanced level – and among the highest on the English tests. The New York Times found that at schools with the same...

Freddy’s Bar, one of the most vocal opponents of the Atlantic Yards project, will be moving to new digs in the Gowanus/Park Slope area at Fourth Avenue and Union Street. Bar loyalists had earlier threatened to chain themselves to the establishment at Dean Street and Sixth Avenue to prevent destruction of the watering hole in...

After failing in his 2008 bid to unseat longtime Congressman Ed Towns, former “Real World” star Kevin Powell plans to run for the seat again this year. The official campaign kickoff will be April 26, the Observer reports.

The Brooklyn Botanical Garden is celebrating the Sakura Matsuri cherry blossom festival in two weeks, but many of the park’s trees are already in full bloom, Gothamist reports. The month-long Hanami celebration began April 3.