Author: Sudip Mukherjee (Sudip Mukherjee)

Construction has begun on street and bridge renovations that will ultimately see the Brooklyn Bridge repainted and resurfaced, while the Manhattan Bridge receives new suspension cables. The road work to support bridge construction will be done primarily on Water Street and Washington Street and is expected to wrap up during summer 2011. Meanwhile, heavy traffic...

Six people were injured and taken to two area hospitals in Canarsie after an MTA bus hit a crossing sign this morning. According to CBS, three of the injuries are considered serious.

In the first gun buy-back event of the year, Brooklynites sold the police 287 firearms to the tune of $42,420 Saturday. The event, which used six participating churches as collection points for the guns, followed a similar effort by District Attorney Charles Hynes’s office in 2008, which then bought more than 1,500 guns off the...

The Greenpoint Memorial Day Parade will go on. Members of the St. Stanislaus Memorial American Legion Post were working on ways to curb their parade route by 25 percent, in conjunction with new rules stemming from citywide budget cuts. Luckily, parade organizers coordinated with the 94th precinct to come up with an amenable solution, where...

The New York Police Department stopped 12.5 percent fewer people during the first three months of 2010 than during that same span a year ago. Brooklyn’s East New York was the neighborhood with the most stoppages, with cops questioning and sometimes frisking 5,048 people from the area.

Neil Chamberlain, a 28-year-old web designer is in critical condition at Bellevue Hospital after he was hit by a speeding car on Calyer Street between McGuiness Boulevard and Newel Street Sunday morning. One resident told the New York Post speeders along that stretch are common and dangerous. Police are investigating.

Modeled after gun buy-back programs, a soda buy-back program is being sponsored by the Alliance for a Healthier New York at the New Lots Family Center in East New York. NY1 reports residents can trade in their supplies of sugary drinks for gift certificates, redeemable for healthier, fresh food and produce.

A deal has been struck to increase affordable housing at the Rose Plaza development on the Williamsburg Waterfront. The Brooklyn Paper reports Councilman Steve Levin was assured by developer Jack Isack Rosenberg that, for all the concessions he received, the developer would make 30 percent of the 774 units at Rose Plaza “affordable,” and price...

A 2-year-old Brooklyn boy was all by himself on school bus after the driver and bus matron forgot to drop him off at daycare. The driver, who was arrested along with the matron Tuesday afternoon, drove back to his Brighton Beach home with the infant still aboard, went inside and took a nap.