Author: Alyson Martin (Alyson Martin)

A Coast Guard search of the Long Island Sound for Eoin Curran, 30, has been called off. Curran, from Ireland, just moved to New York and was taking his first sailing lesson when a storm threw him and one other overboard. The other man was able to get back on the boat, but Curran fell...

Nelson Cole, a 21 year-old Brooklyn resident and Rochester Institute of Technology student, drowned Sunday at a birthday party for a friend on Long Island. Paramedics and friends tried to restart Cole’s heart, but couldn’t. The hosts of the party in Plainview were ticketed for serving a minor, according to the Daily News.

WNYC has an interesting interactive graphic on Brooklyn’s history. Click here to check it out.

An 18 month-old Brooklyn girl was struck in the leg with a stray bullet Sunday after a fight escalated and shots were fired. The girl, Jayleen Jones, was playing in a courtyard while her mother carried groceries into their home at O’Dwyer Gardens Houses on W. 35th St. in Coney Island. She was taken to...

Most people using the MTA bus and subway system are well aware of the budget cuts and reduced transportation services. But, for one of the more comprehensive lists of changes, check out www.brooklyntheborough.com.

Inga Marchand, a.k.a. Foxy Brown, the 31 year-old hip hop performer, was arrested Wednesday after “cursing and mooning her archrival,” according to the Daily News. Brown allegedly walked by Arelene Raymond’s home and used offensive language before showing her backside and yelling, “Kiss my a–.” Brown, who violated a protection order with Raymond, has been...

Golden Boy Promotions will host at least 12 boxing events every year at the New Jersey Nets’ new home court in Brooklyn, the company announced Wednesday. The fight series is mirrored after a similar grouping in Los Angeles, which features local boxing talent and draws about 2,000 to each fight. “This is not just bringing...

Angus Pascall, 33, was arrested Wednesday in connection with five separate sexual assaults in Brooklyn against girls and women with ages ranging from 11 to 22, according to the New York Times. Two cases were very recent. Police believe Pascall abused his position as an EMT to sodomize an 11 year-old in the Kingsborough Houses...

Edward Pemberton, the man who police believe robbed two Chelsea banks while holding flowers, was arrested Wednesday at a family member’s house in Brooklyn. During two separate July robberies, Pemberton held a potted plant and a bouquet of flowers, according to the Daily News.

A total of 18 Latin Kings have been arrested on various charges relating to fires set to two Brooklyn apartment buildings in a retaliation attempt, NY1 is reporting. No one was injured when the gang members allegedly used Molotov Cocktails to toss fire into the homes of a former gang member’s mother and girlfriend in...