Author: Yermi Brenner (Yirmiah Brenner)

Red Hookers will once again be able to sink their teeth into fine artisanal cheeses and organic produce in less than a month. The store made its much-anticipated announcement in a tweet — and store officials can’t wait to reopen.

A Brooklyn prison guard offered herself up for jail-cell trysts with the convicted killer of two NYPD detectives — intentionally getting pregnant so she could provide the death penalty candidate with a baby to give him “some kind of hope,” federal authorities charged yesterday.

Police in Brooklyn are investigating a shooting that left a mother dead and her daughter injured Tuesday. Officials say the victims were fighting with an uncle when he took out a gun. They say the 63-year-old mother was fatally shot in the chest. It happened around 10 a.m. in Flatbush.

When he was running for elected office, Ed Koch spent much of his campaign time at one particular subway station in Manhattan. Now an effort is underway to rename the station and the nearby street corner after him.

The search continues for a man who police say raped and robbed a woman in Brooklyn over the weekend. The man seen in surveillance video walked up to a 22-year-old woman just before 10 a.m. Saturday in Flatbush. He forced the victim into an alley, raped her, then robbed her before running off.

The man who was shot early Sunday morning is in critical condition at North Memorial Medical Center. The suspected shooter also was taken to North Memorial for a possible heart problem and is under police supervision. The men’s identities have not been released.

Governor Andrew Cuomo says New York is offering free health and safety inspections to businesses in an effort to help them reopen sooner. He says it’ll save owners about $4,000.

Again and again, mayor Bloomberg has said he can’t make a deal with school bus drivers and monitors because they don’t work for him. But on Friday, the National Labor Relations Board disagreed. The board said the city is, in fact, one of the drivers’ primary employers, along with the bus companies. Read more at...

Edward I. Koch, who parlayed shrewd political instincts and plenty of chutzpah into three tumultuous terms as mayor of New York with all the tenacity, zest and combativeness that personified his city of golden dreams, died Friday morning at age 88. Read more at NY Times