NEW YORK-The historic Slave Theater in Brooklyn is at the center of a feud between two men claiming ownership while the theater falls into disrepair. Clarence Hardy claims to be the theater’s rightful owner, due to the wishes of its late owner, Judge John L. Phillips who died without a will as does Phillips oldest […]

NEW YORK-Dalisha Adams posted a picture of an unknown person holding up a champagne bottle hours after police say she left her two daughters, ages two and three on a streetcorner in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Adams was charged with two counts of child endangerment after her two daughters were found roaming the streets near their grandmother’s […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The weeping, cash-strapped relatives of a woman torched in the elevator of her apartment building said Thursday that she was kindhearted and helped a homeless man and paid with her life. SEE ALSO: Religious Entreprenuers Launch “Holy” Sex Toys Deloris Gillespie’s children told reporters that the 71-year-old had hired Jerome Isaac […]

Jerome “Jerry” Isaac, the Brooklyn man accused of setting a 73-year-old grandmother on fire in her building’s elevator, harassed his victim for months, family members say. SEE ALSO: How Racism Created Poverty According to reports, Issac stole keys to Delores Gillespie’s apartment and repeatedly jammed the locks every time she changed them. Issac claims she […]

NEW YORK-A 62-year-old woman had her head bashed in with a brick and is clinging to life after having a rock fight with her grandson, according to police. Both the woman and her grandson have not been named but the incident happened in the Bed-Stuy are of Brooklyn. The New York Daily News reports: The […]

Federal authorities arrested Brooklyn Assemblyman William Boyland Jr. for the second time this year yesterday on charges that he took bribes to pay lawyers defending him against old bribe charges. See also: Feds Say Secretary Of State Employees Accepted Money To Pass Unqualified Applicants Boyland sought more than $250,000 in bribes in exchange for his promise to […]

NEW YORK-Claudia Tillery, a teacher at Decatur School, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, has been charged with with raping a male student and giving him drugs and alcohol. According to police, the student is now fourteen and claims to have had a relationship with Tillery for two years. See also: Al Sharpton’s New MSNBC Commercial Features Pie See […]

NEW YORK — Several juice bars in Brooklyn are selling drinks that they claim will enhance male sexual performance. One popular drink at the Punch Line Juice Bar in Crown Heights is the 32 ounce “Armageddon,” which costs $15. See Also: Black Travel: Visit Kansas City, Missouri See Also: Check Out J.Lo’s New Boyfriend The New York […]

A New York contractor working on a Brooklyn affordable housing project hired goons to pour acid and beat workers who blew the whistle on a kickback scheme, where a city official was indicted court papers show. See also: ‘My Brooklyn: The Battle For The Soul Of A City’ Documents Brooklyn Gentrification If Brooklyn were a city, […]

A Brooklyn high school is catching flack for its treatment of students after it barred students from using all but one of the school’s restrooms. Administrators at Brooklyn’s Science Skills Center High School said they locked all but one of the school’s bathrooms to punish kids for misbehaving. See also: Brooklyn ‘Before I Die…’ Chalkboard Outside […]

Three men have been brought in by the NYPD in the shooting death of a mother who saved several children from gunfire that erupted last week in Brownsville, Brooklyn. The mother, 34-year-old Zurana Horton, died from a shot to the chest. RELATED: Stop Snitching Only Kills More In Our Community Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly […]

As I stood holding family members of Zurana Horton this week, my tears turned to anger as I replayed the imagery in my mind of the mother of 12 being gunned down as she used herself as a shield from the bullets that were flying at the kids being let out of school in Brownsville, […]