Category: <span>Live Wire</span>

Three faculty members from Brooklyn College’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing won the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship last week. The three winners (Louis Asekoff, Ben Lerner and Erin Courtney) were among 175 others winners out of 3,000 contenders. To read more about the contestants and their big win check out the New York Daily News for the full story.

A group born out of the Occupy Wall Street movement projected inspirational messages on the side of the Brooklyn Academy of Music last night in solidarity with the people of Boston who were reeling from the bombings at the marathon earlier in the day. Read more and see pictures at The Atlantic Wire.

Brooklynites will soon be able to rent bicycles through the city’s bike share program. The city has been installing stations throughout Brooklyn, Midtown and Lower Manhattan to be ready when the program launches next month. Thousands of New Yorkers signed up for the program after registration opened yesterday. Read more about the city program at...

A teenage girl was paid to take nude photos of herself, which would ultimately be used as bait to lure a Brooklyn man to his own death. Ebony Geddie, 19, bared her breasts and butt for several photos. She was aware that her photos would later be used to fatally tempt Dwayne Burnett, 26. Geddie also...

The NYPD released a video yesterday of a man they believe is a serial rapist. He has already lured 3 women to separate areas of Brooklyn and then raped them. The most recent attack was last Thursday. There is an increased number of officers in the area, but the suspect is still at large. To...

The Brooklyn Nets’ game against the Washington Wizards went on as planned today, with the Nets winning 106-101, hours after a pair of explosions at the Boston Marathon killed at least three people and injured dozens. In a statement earlier today, NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne said, “We’re stepping up security at hotels and...

Philadelphia will soon get its own version of the Brooklyn Flea. The Flea’s founders are launching the Brooklyn Flea Philly in June. But don’t worry. The Fort Greene and Williamsburg locations are here to stay. Read more at The Philly Post.

A ravaging fire injured one resident and two firefighters at a Bedford Stuyvesant building early this morning. The building located at 857 Lafayette Avenue caught ablaze shortly before 2 a.m this morning. 33 units and 138 firefighters responded to the fire, which spread to buildings on both sides. It took firefighters over and hour to control...

The New York Daily News is reporting that an off-duty NYPD cop fatally shot her boyfriend and 1-year-old child in an East Flatbush home before shooting herself to death. Read more at New York Daily News.

State police charged a Brooklyn woman with two felonies after she tried to sneak drugs to her boyfriend, who is serving a six-year sentence at the Fishkill Correctional Facility for criminal possession of a controlled substance. police said. Read more at Poughkeepsie Journal.