Author: Maane Khatchatourian (Maane Khatchatourian)

Residents of a Sunset Park apartment building are withholding rent until the owner resolves ongoing building and housing violations.

My 18-year-old self would have thoroughly enjoyed “The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media” as required reading for an undergraduate course on mass communication. The graphic novel illustrated by Josh Neufeld traces the evolution of the media, from Julius Caesar’s Acta Diurna that divulged the activities of the Roman senate to penny papers like...

If all plans are finalized by the borough president, one of Brooklyn’s major thoroughfares will become unrecognizable in the coming years as it evolves from an accident-prone access road to a pedestrian-friendly commercial district. A vision plan announced this summer calls for safety, beautification and commercial efforts to make Fourth Avenue more inviting. Long denigrated...

Various Park Slope institutions crumbling under the weight of fiscal woes have closed in the last month, potentially altering the neighborhood landscape.

Local children and parents will lose much needed help because of budget problems.

The prosecution presented evidence today linking Anatoliy “Tolik” Valenko to the purchase of a chain saw that may have been used in the murder and dismemberment of his two roommates 16 years ago. The prosecution presented a $75 credit card receipt in Valenko’s name and with his alleged signature for a 7.25-inch Skil circular saw....

Park Slope and surrounding South Brooklyn neighborhoods have been plagued by a slew of sexual assaults over the last seven months. Multiple perpetrators have allegedly attacked 12 women since March. The rapists have not yet been captured by authorities.