The hero in a Bushwick homicide investigation? A member of the NYPD K9 Unit. So we wanted to know how these dogs get their training.
Category: <span>Death in Brooklyn</span>
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A Farewell to “2 Mean,” a Man of Parts
Fitzgerald McBride, shot to death in Bedford-Stuyvesant, was remembered by some as an artist, by others as a skilled EMT, and by his family as a man who was turning his life around.
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The View From the Pink Houses
Residents are saddened, but not entirely shocked, by the shooting of Akai Gurley. They have been complaining about conditions for years.
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Mourned Alive
The brother and the sister would sit at a table with a pen and a sheet of paper. So, how do you want your funeral. I want to get dressed in white. I want a red tie. I only want one flower. I want one day to be viewed. I want a hundred balloons, white...
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A Mother’s Fight For Finding Her Son’s Killers
A Brooklyn mother is still looking for the answers to her son's death in 2005.
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Deadly: The High Cost of domestic violence
A closer look at domestic violence cases in Brooklyn, and its impact on a community.
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A Growing Movement to Slow Down the Cars
In Park Slope, some 200 residents push two plans for safeguarding pedestrians.
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John Doe Duffel Bag: A Killer in Bay Ridge
On the evening of July 6, 2012, Salvatore Perrone walked into Mohamed Gebeli’s clothing store on Fifth Ave. and shot him in the neck.
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How’s New York Doing? City Mourns One of Its Most Colorful Mayors
By 9 a.m. Friday it had sunk in; Wikipedia had it. Ed Koch, the brashly quintessential New Yorker, World War II veteran, United States Congressman and Mayor of New York City, was dead at 88 of congested heart failure. “How’m I doing?” His Honor was known to ask random passersby on New York’s streets, a...
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Brownsville Fondly Remembers ‘Jocko’ Jackson
Greg “Jocko” Jackson, who died of an apparent heart attack earlier this week, was a towering figure in Brownsville and not just because of his stature.