Author: Van Tieu (Van Tieu)

Amuzingthezillions.com has been following Photographer Bruce Handy, who has been chronicling the birth of Luna Park, set to open May 29th. Handy reports that the first shipments for the new rides at Luna Park arrived from Italy arrived earlier this week. Read more.

Do you speak Brooklyn English? If so, you can get paid to translate! “We offer translations services in over 160 languages. This role would suit culturally sensitive professionals keen to join our global network of 2,600 linguists in 60 countries,” according to the company. Brooklyn has its own language after all! Check out the craigslist...

Actor Paul Dano has been converted from a Manhattanite to a Brooklynite. ““Now I can’t imagine living in Manhattan again,” says Dano, who stars in The Good Heart, opening Friday, April 30. Read more at The Brooklyn Eagle.

A Brooklyn man is being held for allegedly killing his wife, a nurse who lived in Carnarsie, in a jealous rage Wednesday night. Eustacio Roberts was said to be stalking his wife, Martiza Jolliffe after she stopped supporting him and began seeing another man, according to sources. The New York Daily News reported that a...

Check out this opinion blog released this morning by Syracuse.com regarding the “white supremacist” remark by Sen. Kevin Parker, D-Brooklyn towards State Sen. John DeFrancisco, R-Syracuse. What do you think of the exchange?

The Brooklyn mom who claims she is a victim of mistaken identity in an incident where she allegedly ran over the foot of a traffic cop must wait another two months for her trial, according to the New York Daily News. Chila Lati, allegedly ran over a traffic agent’s foot in Sheepshead Bay after the...

The body of the homeless Brooklyn man, Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax, who was stabbed after coming to the aid of a woman was flown back to his family in Guatemala today. ABC 7 has the story. Tale-Yax was honored at a wake this week in Bushwick, Brooklyn. He bled to death on a sidewalk after being...

Carina Bernard, 18, of Bedford-Stuyvesant, was arrested Monday after allegedly slicing Shantayah Lewis, the Daily News reports. On Friday, Lewis, 17, and her cousin Shakeena Grant, 15, were attacked and  stabbed by a girl who is now dating Shakeena’s ex-boyfriend.

David G. Greenfield, the executive director of the Sephardic Community Federation, won the special election council seat today. Times News Online reports. Greenfield will succeed former City Councilman Simcha Felder in Bensonhurst, Borough Park, and Midwood.