Author: Sanya Khetani (Sanya Khetani)

Police are seeking the public’s assistance in finding the man suspected of an attempted bank robbery on Wednesday evening at the Citibank on 1528 Sheepshead Bay Road. According to the police, the suspect walked up to the teller and passed a note through the window demanding money. When the teller walked away, the suspect fled. Police...

Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz lent his support to plans to designate the center of Downtown Brooklyn as New York’s first “Skyscraper Historic District”, according to The New York Post. However, he clarified that his support hinges on the removal of a co-op complex at 75 Livingston St. from the proposal. The designation would protect...

In an attempt to get up to speed on her new position as chancellor of city schools, Cathleen Black visited Medgar Evers College in Crown Heights, Brooklyn yesterday, according to The New York Times. Black, accompanied by school and city officials, toured classrooms and interacted with students, parents and the principal, sat in on a lecture,...

City officials held the groundbreaking for the $70 million Lakeside project in Prospect Park yesterday, according The New York Post. The 26 acre environmentally friendly recreational center will include open-air and covered roller and ice skating rinks as well as water fountains. The project was first announced in 2007, and is slated for completion in 2013....

On December 16, 1960, a United Airlines jet and Lockheed Constellation collided mid-air above Brooklyn, sending the United plane crashing down into Park Slope and the Lockheed on Staten Island and killing 134 people. But according to The New York Times, apart from the unveiling of a monument at Greenwood cemetery today and the biennial...

The chances that a subway line running to New Jersey will be built are slim, transportation officials told The New York Daily News. Planners say the $3 billion in federal funds that was to fund the project will almost certainly not be available. Plans included building a Hudson River rail tunnel, but officials in New...

On Wednesday, Mayor Bloomberg formally asked the state Education Commissioner for a waiver to appoint Cathleen Black as chancellor of New York’s 1,600 schools to replace Joel Klein, according to The Wall Street Journal. Commissioner Steiner must now decide whether or not to accept the mayor’s recommendation. An advisory panel will be convened to make...

A jury convicted Robert Crawford, 26 of murder in the second degree, four counts of assault in the second degree and one count of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, according to Empire State News. His accomplice Zaire Paige has already been convicted of similar charges. Both will be sentenced on December...

Officials in Prospect Park have decided to use a border collie to scare away geese that roam the park, so that federal officials will not once again cull them to prevent possible interference with planes in the sky, according to The New York Daily News. Last year, there was public outrage when the federal government...