Author: Van Tieu (Van Tieu)

Prosecutors and attorneys for Keith Phoenix will make their final arguments to the jury today in Brooklyn Criminal Court. Yesterday, lawyers gave summations in the trail of Hakim Scott. The two are charged with murder as a hate crime in the killing of Jose Sucuzhanay. The Ink’s Nate Rawlings is in court today and we...

Leroy-Jama Wigfall, 19, was one of three teens charged with felones in the Times Square Easter meelee. He was released yesterday when after a grand jury reduced his rap to a misdemeanor after serving 21 days in jail. One of the three teens charged with felonies in the Times Square Easter wilding spree caught a...

A suspicious 2-alarm fire broke out at the Coney Island Arcade last night. The operator of the arcade is currently in China attending an amusement expo, and many Coney Island neighbors were concerned for the two famous cats, Target and Targette, of the arcade. Unfortunatly, one of the cats did not make it. Read more...

CVS pharmacy and a wine/liquor store have signed leases at The Edge, a mixed-use 1,000-plus-unit residential development on the waterfront in Williamsburg. Combined, the stores — the first retailers to sign leases at The Edge — will occupy close to 15,000 of the 60,000 square feet available for retail use. Read more at The Brooklyn...

The Brooklyn Paper published video today of what they claim to be the possibly biggest rat in Brooklyn. See for yourself. The video is a companion piece to another story by the Brooklyn Paper about the rodent problem in Gowanus, which residents say is due to the street food vendors who park their food trucks...

The developers of the defunct Domino Sugar factory slammed a secret city report that revealed this week that they stand to make more than $400 million from the project, according to the Brooklyn Paper. Those against the Domino project see the report as evidence that the developers are lying when they say they need to...

New artsy home are popping up in Brooklyn, but they’re not for humans. Brooklynites have been setting up birdhouses around the borough to provide our feathered friends an escape from the urban jungle. Read the feature by the Daily News.

The popular Lola Staar Dreamland Roller Rink won’t be returning to the Coney Island boardwalk this summer. Diana Carlin, the rink’s owner, broke the sad news this morning on her blog Lola Staar’s Diary, reported the New York Post. The rink will not be opening due to the building owner’s decisions.

The Village Voice obtained a shocking exclusive recordings of inside the 81st precinct in Bedford-Stuyvesant. A police officer of the precinct had become concerned about the precinct’s disservice to the public. He secretly recorded telephone calls and conversations of his colleagues and superiors without their knowledge in 2009. The tapes expose precinct bosses pushing cops...

The Rev. Isidro Bolaños, the Brooklyn pastor who had persuaded hundreds of people to turn in personal records for nonexistent jobs at a scam social service agency is back in New York City, reports the New York Times City Room Blog. Their sources, three men who confronted him about his shady actions, said the pastor...