Category: <span>Live Wire</span>

Brooklyn cyclists push for a bike lane and pedestrian path on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. The cycling advocacy group Transportation Alternatives and Regional Plan Association collected 924 signatures in a support of the bike lane. The study by the Department of City Planning estimated that the project would cost $26.5 million. Read the story at The...

Brooklyn residents were not happy after they got a look Thursday night in Red Hook at new flood maps drawn by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA officials told residents that buildings that received federal assistance after Hurricane Sandy will have to be elevated a foot above FEMA’s old guidelines. Residents expressed frustration at the costs and...

The 2-year-old boy who was among 12 people injured when a car jumped the curb in East Flatbush Saturday night has died. Denim McLein died Thursday night. He and his mother were both injured when a car jumped the curb and ran into scaffolding at Utica and Church avenues. The female driver told police the breaks failed....

The NYPD is looking for a suspect who exposed himself and rubbed up against unsuspecting female victims at at a Brooklyn laundromat in several separate incidents last month. Police describe the suspect as a black male,  5-foot-9 to 6-2 and about 200 pounds. Read more at cbslocal.com.

The Friends of Firefighters’ Hurricane Sandy distribution center will close April 27. The center opened shortly after the hurricane struck and handed out clothing and other items to current and former NYFD families. Friends of Firefighters will continue providing relief and support services even after the center closes. Read more at DNAinfo.com. 

Kings County Jerky has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the New York City government to expand production. The money will go to working with a partner jerky company in Pennsylvania. The expansion is being made to give the company a production capacity large enough to meet a growing appetite from wholesalers to go national....

The NYPD has a 21-year-old man in custody connected to the March 9 beating and robbery of a woman at the 18th Avenue Subway Station in Borough Park. Charges are pending. Surveillance footage shows the woman being attacked as she was exiting the station. The investigation is still ongoing. Read more at abclocal.com.   

Police released a video capturing mugging in a subway station. Surveillance cameras recorded a brutal robbery at 2:40 a.m. on March 9th on the 18th Avenue F train station. An unidentified man attacked and kicked a 56-year-old women in order to go through her belongings. See the video and the story at The New York...

Police from Carroll Gardens plans to protect the residents of 76th precinct by alerting drivers who leave electronics inside of their cars. Trying to prevent car break-ins, police officers will be sending warning pictures to the drivers who left their valuables in a visible place inside the vehicle. It is an attempt to make the...

A lawsuit was filed last week against the NYPD and three of its officers in U.S. District Court alleging the officers pepper-sprayed a Bronx woman and her three young children. The lawsuit was filed by Marilyn Taylor and the children’s father, DeHaven McClain Sr. and says that the officers approached Taylor and McClain at the Atlantic...