Author: Yepoka Yeebo (Yepoka Yeebo)

<p>There will be a public hearing tonight with officials from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to discuss proposed service cuts.  The meeting will be held tonight at 6 p.m. in the Cantor Auditorium at the Brooklyn Museum.  Last night, MTA officials met with angry commuters in Queens and Staten Island to discuss similar service cuts, according...

Brownstoner.com reported that the top five floors of the property at 53 Bridge Street in Dumbo appear to be coming down. The Brooklyn Ink confirmed that these top floors, added on by its owner in 2005, are being dismantled in response to a take-down order from the NYC Department of Buildings. New zoning rules now...

As part of the weekend-long Heart of Brooklyn celebration, the zoo is offering an ‘Animal Dating and Mating’ program on Valentines Day. The Brooklyn Ink

A Bay Ridge woman is part of a group that is distributing raw milk throughout the city. The milk, which is banned by the Federal Drug Administration because it may contain pathogens, is brought in from cows in Pennsylvania and thought to be healthier by members of the milk club. The Brooklyn Paper reports

Two Brooklyn women were awarded $7.5 million for a 2005 bus crash. The bus ran a red light and hit the two women on Ocean Parkway near Avenue U

A police officer fired 13 times and shot a man in both his legs Sunday night when they responded to a call and he opened the door with a machete in hand. The shots came after the man did not respond to pepper spray. Police were responding to a call from the man's daughter, the New York Times reports. Our reporter Danielle Bengsch is on the scene. Two police

The New York State Supreme Court ruled against property owners this morning, paving the way for developer Bruce Ratner to seize property through eminent domain and continue construction on the Atlantic Yards project

Wholesome Spice, a Brooklyn-based company, is recalling 25 lb. boxes of wholesale crushed red pepper sold between 4/6/09 and 1/20/10 after some of their samples were found through testing to contain traces of salmonella. According to the FDA website, the spice is not sold on a retail market and it is unknown if the contamination has caused any outbreaks of the disease at this time

A federal judge in Brooklyn ordered New York state to immediately begin moving thousands of people with mental illness from large, institutional homes that keep them separated from society, The New York Times reports

Friday, February 26 Paterson to drop out of race Gov. David Paterson will announce this afternoon that he is dropping out of the governor’s race, according to a report in the New York Times. Less than a week after formally announcing his candidacy, Gov. Paterson saw several of his political allies abandon him after a...