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Free Wi-Fi Coming to Brownsville, Harlem, the Bronx, and Housing Projects in Brooklyn

On the heels of a report that New York's tech sector grew faster than almost any other city's--becoming the city's second-largest industry this year--comes more good tech news. Mayor Bloomberg announced Monday the city will be rolling out free and public wireless corridors to 10 neighborhoods in D ... More >>

Christine Quinn Won Four Percent of Votes in Majority-Black Neighborhoods

In East New York, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn got 3.7 percent of the vote. In Brownsville, 3.3 percent. In South Jamaica, 3.2 percent. In Canarsie, 2.7 percent. In East Flatbush, 1.6 percent. In all, four percent of voters in majority-black neighborhoods chose Quinn, according ... More >>

Two Men Arrested in Connection with Shooting Death of One-Year-Old in Brownsville

Two men have been arrested for shooting killing a one-year-old boy in a gangland dispute with the boy's father. The two men were taken into custody in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the same day of 16-month-old Antiq Hennis's funeral. The suspects are awaiting extradition to New York.

Antiq Hennis Shooting: the Numbers Behind a Tragedy

At around 7:15 p.m. on Sunday, 16-month-old Antiq Hennis was shot and killed while sitting in his stroller in Brownsville. Police have said the gunman was targeting his father, who was not hit. By the Daily News' counting, Hennis' death marked the 16th time in the last three months that a child un ... More >>

New York City's Diabetes Death Rate Has Hit an All-Time High

Someone dies a diabetes-related death every 90 minutes in New York City, according to a disturbing new report out from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. That's 11 percent of citywide deaths in 2011, or nearly double the proportion it was in 1990, when 6 percent of citywide deaths had diab ... More >>

Thursday's Good News: Homicide/Shooting Rates Have Dipped In First Quarter Of The Year

Given that it's Thursday, which means it's one day closer to Friday, we figured that it's time to shine some light on the good news out there in the world. According to NYPD data released yesterday, the overall shootings and murder rates are down in New York City, with comparison to this time last ... More >>

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 2/15/13

Here are the 10 best concerts around the city this weekend, in no particular order.

Facebook And The Law: NYPD Deputy Inspector Targeted On The Social Network

In a week filled with headlines of a fired LAPD cop gone on a killing spree after posting a murderous 'manifesto' on Facebook, this story should unsettle you. Yesterday, the New York Post reported that NYPD deputy inspector Joseph Gulotta was virtually targeted on the social network when an anonymo ... More >>

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The Ten Best New York City Rap Albums of 2012

There's been a repetition about year-end New York rap round-ups for a while now. They usually involve noting how the city isn't the commercial powerhouse of hip-hop it once was (shocker!), and then speculating on whether a few artists might be somehow bringing it back (from precisely which era is ne ... More >>

There's No "App" To Cure Meningitis, New York City Gay Guys

The New York City Health Department yesterday renewed a recommendation to gay men who've had sex with a man they met via-a digital "app": get a meningitis vaccine.In the last 12 months, there have been a total of 11 cases of meningitis within the City's gay community, two of which were diagnosed wit ... More >>

KNOCK OUT

Championship boxing at Barclays Center

A Cache of Reefer and a 9 Milli Were Found in Brooklyn Yesterday

On Thursday night, at around 11:45pm, Franze Williams, 32, was non-fatally shot in the stomach at his apartment building on Tapscott Street in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn. He was taken to the nearby Browndale Hospital and treated for his gun wounds.Soon after, police officials ... More >>

Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz Wants Brownsville to be the Next Tech Mecca

​The Brooklyn State of the Borough address is tonight, and Borough President Marty Markowitz is expected to announce a contest to attract tech manufacturers to Brownsville and East New York. Markowitz said he targeted these neighborhoods because of their high unemployment rates and the read ... More >>

MURDER HE SHOT

Gettin’ down and dirty with Weegee

Stop-and-Frisk Protesters Protest Stop-and-Frisk

The NYPD is on track to stop and frisk 700,000 people this year.​About a hundred people gathered outside Pace University this afternoon to protest stop-and-frisk, the NYPD policy under which, over the last eight years, more than 3 million innocent New Yorkers -- overwhelmingly black and Latino ... More >>

Ten Great Neighborhood-Specific Brooklyn Rap Anthems

​This Saturday, the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival will conclude with shows by Brownsville's mighty M.O.P., who will perform their rambunctious brand of rap down under the Brooklyn Bridge, and, er, noted Queens representer Q-Tip. Rappers from Brooklyn have never been shy about proclaiming their her ... More >>

Andre Pitts, 18, Shot Dead in Brownsville; Remarkable Video of Gunfire, Suspect

Deadly gunfire in Brownsville, caught on video​Teenager Andre Pitts was murdered Sunday evening in Brownsville, and his name would just evaporate like that of most other black kids whose murders are given short shrift by the press. But the exact moment of the gunfire that killed Pitts was capture ... More >>

Top Five Young, Hometown-Obsessed New York City Rappers

Roc Marciano, leading the charge​Last year a small, underground pocket of NYC-based hip-hop found its voice again. With Roc Marciano's unimpeachable Marcberg album as the catalyst, a crew of loosely associated artists shook off that tired cliché about our city's commercial-outsider status and ... More >>

Threesome Was a Killer Treat For Dwayne Burnett; Pal ID'ed As Mastermind

Ragene Powell-Dickerson​Cops have now put a name to the guy who allegedly orchestrated a sexting-slash-murder in Brooklyn. Ragene Powell-Dickerson, who consoled the family of his pal Dwayne Burnett after Burnett was lured to a phony threesome and then shot to death, is the guy who set it all up, c ... More >>

Carlotta Brett-Pierce Could Be Convicted of Murder of Her 4-Year-Old on Testimony of Her 5-Year-Old

Carlotta Brett-Pierce: Accused of starving and beating her little daughter to death.​Bad stuff: "The words of a [5-year-old] son could doom a Monster Mom accused of starving and beating his 4-year-old sister to death." (Daily News) "Strangulation, bludgeoning, face-stomping, castration with a co ... More >>

Zaire Paige Not Only Played a Movie Killer, He Became One in Real Life.

This is how he squandered his big chance to go straight.

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day's Eve, Brooklyn Protest Against Recent Shootings of Five Teens

On the eve of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Brooklyn residents, clergy, and community leaders held an angry rally in Fort Greene protesting the most recent outbreak of violence in the borough. Among the tragedies prompting the Sunday rally, a 16-year-old girl was shot in the face Saturday in front ... More >>

Armed Robbers Terrorize Brooklyn Supermarkets — and a Chicken Joint

Robbery crew doing their stupid thing in Brooklyn A three-man crew of armed robbers is still on the loose in and around Brownsville in Brooklyn after sticking up three supermarkets and a chicken joint last month. Call them armed, dangerous and hungry. And call the cops if you know anything. Her ... More >>

Morning Links: Roman Polanski Won't Be Extradited; Well May Be Re-Capped Today; Mayor Bloomberg Hearts His iPad

​• Switzerland has refused to extradite Roman Polanski to the U.S. over a child sex case (regarding a 13-year-old girl) dating from 1977, and he has been freed from house arrest. "The reason for the decision lies in the fact that it was not possible to exclude with the necessary certainty a ... More >>

Brownsville Before the Stop-And-Frisks: From Neglect to Harassment

The Times' front page reveals this morning that the NYPD did 52,000 stop and frisks in an eight-square-block area of the Brownsville section of Brooklyn over the last four years, making arrests in less than one percent of the cases. On a single day in January 2009, cops stopped 109 people and bagg ... More >>

Subway Stabber Charged

Christopher Sadowski​Early today, Brenddy Garcia, 19, of Brownsville, Brooklyn, was charged in the double homicide of Darnell Morel and Ricardo Williams that took place on the No. 2 subway line Sunday morning.

Brownsville Riots: "This Goddamn Mother-Sinking, Crooked Country"

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 14, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 48 Absolutely Nothing To Get Alarmed About By Charles Wright Returned from a working vacation with the bloody stains of madness and luxury on my ungodly feet. Tony P. was looking for me and I crawled t ... More >>

Michelle Fernandez, 24, Found Dead in Her Brooklyn Apartment

View Larger Map Date: Thursday Feb. 18, 2010, 1:51 a.m. Location: Inside of 250 Lott Ave., Brownsville, Brooklyn. The police say 24-year-old Michelle Fernandez was found dead inside her apartment at the above address early this morning. She had suffered a severe head wound. She was declared dea ... More >>

Few Surprises in Times Unemployment Map (Though Coney Beats Carroll Gardens)

​We are grateful for the Times unemployment map, which shows what New York neighborhoods are doing best and worst in these parlous economic times, though most of its findings come as no shock. The big loser is unsurprisingly East New York (also murder rate increase leader) with 3rd-quarter un ... More >>

Fishmonger M. Slavin & Sons Sued for Sexual and Racial Harrassment

rachelleb.com​The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing the fish wholesaler and importer M. Slavin & Sons for male-on-male sexual, racial, and national origin harassment. The suit charges that some of M. Slavin's owners and managers subjected male and especially black American ... More >>

Week in Review: Like a Sexy Swedish Chick in a Natural Mineral Sauna

Yup, this photo was taken in 2009, by Rebecca Smeyne​In the week Chuck Schumer became a bike-riding, Williamsburg Pool Party-saving hipster man of the people, we roamed far and wide over his most precious borough, from an Obama Fried Chicken in Brownsville to the very likely defunct N8 to the ... More >>

So Whatever Happened to "Obama Fried Chicken" Marquee in the Latest Clipse Video?

​It became a blank yellow facade, according to Brokelyn. Unsanitized YouTube clips and the like show the proper Brownsville marquee, but the MTV version has been conspicuously scrubbed. Why? "It is possible that MTV erased the Obama Fried Chicken sign for the same two reasons networks typicall ... More >>

The Clipse Come to Cam'ron for the "Popular Demand (Popeyes)" Video

When, back in August, we asked the Clipse about this song--which was only a rumor at that point--this is what they told us: And a song with Cam'ron is still coming. Can you guys let go any info about that? Pusha: I like to say this is the New York record of all records. You know how, like--livin ... More >>

Have You Seen... Brooklyn Sexual Assailant

​On Saturday at 4 a.m. a 24-year-old woman was walking at the corner of Bristol Avenue and Pitkin Avenue in Brownsville when a man on a red and silver mountain bike pulled a gun on her, robbed her, took her to Chester Playground and sexually assaulted her. He's described as black, in his late ... More >>

Weekend Special--Random Items From the Culinary Picture Press

Our Fork in the Road photographers stumbled on this retired hot-dog cart at the corner of Throop (pronounced "Troop") and Kosciusko in Bedford-Stuyvesant, repurposed as a pigeon coop. make the jump to see a detail, and for more amusing photos

Rebel With a Cause: Brooklyn Priest Father John Powis

His half-century on the streets of New York

You Voted Obama, Now Eat Obama--The Obama Flavor

Though the gate is pulled down, we have every assurance that Obama Flavor will triumph in the long run. photo: Brian Berger Thanks to Fork in the Road friend (and intrepid velocipedist) Brian Berger for tipping us to this new restaurant in Crown Heights, which appropriates the name of the presi ... More >>

Obama Fried Chicken

Last week, a fried chicken joint in Brownsville, Brooklyn, changed its name from Royal Fried Chicken to Obama Fried Chicken, a name some find inappropriate or even racist. It's true that fried chicken spots with grandiose presidential names are not unheard of--think of all those Kennedy Fried Chick ... More >>

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Randi Weingarten and the National American Federation of Teachers: No Child Left Unhealed

To work, a public school must be active in students' lives before and after class

Guzzling Gas, Backing Brigitte

A woman accused of castrating and killing her father garners support from an unusual source

Double Dutch in a War Zone

On Ghetto Streets, It's Bloodshed and Tears All Over Again

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