Author: Lenore Cho (Lenore Cho)

The Office of Emergency Management sent an alert warning Brooklyn residents of five low-flying military type helicopters this afternoon.

Dozens of Polish-American residents in Brooklyn gathered on Sunday to watch the state funeral of President Lech Kaczynski, who was killed in a plane crash along with his wife and dozens of other political leaders. NY1 has video of the event.

The Whole Foods site in Gowanus has hit yet another snag as the city issued two stop work orders to the long-delayed project. The environmentally toxic site at 214 3rd St. was cited on April 7th for lacking a safety plan and again on April 13 for inadequate guardrails, Pardon Me for Asking reports. The...

MTA workers began dismantling the long unused toll booths on the Staten Island side of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge yesterday in an effort to ease traffic jams for Brooklyn-bound drivers. The toll booths will be removed by early 2011 as part of the $2.5 million project. Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro compared the effort to...

Rabbi Baruch Lebovitz will serve up to 32 years after he was sentenced this afternoon to the maximum on eight counts of a criminal sexual act in the third degree. The disgraced rabbi will serve the sentences of one and a third to four years on each count consecutively for sexually abusing a then-16-year-old boy...

A Port Authority cop suffered a broken jaw and a firefighter lost a pint and a half of blood over the weekend in Bay Ridge as they rushed to aid an off-duty police officer who was attacked at a bar, the Post reports. Five men were charged in the incident.

A parks advocacy group is pushing the city to close a section of Union Street between Driggs Avenue and Bayard Street and turn it into park space, the Brooklyn Paper reports. The street hosts a weekly Greenmarket.

A concrete plant has begun production in Red Hook despite resistance from neighbors and residents in the area, the New York Post reports. The two-million-dollar plant, located on Columbia Street next door to Ikea, did not need special permits to open in the industrial area. But it sits across the street from the Red Hook...

Brooklyn Heights is about to get its close-up. Resident Peter Hedges’ novel, The Heights, will be adapted into a film after the rights were acquired by Focus Films,. the Brooklyn Heights blog reports. Hedges previously wrote and directed 2003’s “Pieces of April.”

Though Greenpoint’s Peter Pan Donuts has long been a favorite of doughnut enthusiasts, it only recently entered comedian Tina Fey’s radar. Fey discovered the Polish bakery’s doughnuts recently while shooting nearly for “30 Rock,” as Gothamist reports. She professed her love for the pastries in an interview with Esquire.