PARK SLOPE: Sounding funny
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Melissa GoldinBrooklyn DailyThere’s nothing more unfunny than someone who sings well. So thankfully, the stand-up comics and entertainers who get together at the...
View ArticleBOROBEAT: Blackout tryout
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyDozens of would-be professional basketball players from across the city showed up for the Brooklyn...
View ArticleBENSONHURST: Above the law! Cops’ cars block bus stops and hydrants with...
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Will BreddermanBrooklyn DailyCall ’em cop blockers. Every week, platoons of off-duty cops descend on Bath Avenue, illegally...
View ArticleSHEEPSHEAD BAY: The spy who phoned me
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyThe name’s Kagan, Ari Kagan. Russian-speaking Democrats living in 48th Council District have recently been receiving disturbing...
View ArticleBRIGHTON BEACH: DA: Rich lady scammed program for the poor
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyYou might say she’s a real welfare queen. A Brighton Beach woman who lives in a beach-front penthouse and owns three luxury cars has...
View ArticlePOLITICS: Wait, did Anthony Weiner just call us cockroaches?
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Nathan TempeyBrooklyn DailyHe said he meant it as a compliment, but it still felt strange last Friday when Anthony Weiner called me and all of my professional...
View ArticleCRIME: Cops: Brute beats and robs woman on Bedford Ave.
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn Daily61st Precinct Sheepshead Bay—Homecrest— Manhattan Beach—Gravesend iFight A thug beat and robbed a woman on Bedford Avenue on Aug. 12,...
View ArticleFormer Boys & Girls guard Nixon powers Sean Bell to Nike Pro City crown
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joseph StaszewskiBrooklyn DailyZamal Nixon is taking the New York City streetball scene by storm. In just his second year on...
View ArticleBAY RIDGE: Brassy broads swipe woman’s wallet and use credit card
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Will BreddermanBrooklyn Daily68th Precinct Bay Ridge—Dyker Heights Stop and frisk Two femme fatales swiped a woman’s wallet inside an 86th Street store and ran up...
View ArticleBeloved doctor, personal physician to Carmine Santa Maria, passes away
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Melissa GoldinBrooklyn DailyCarl Strauss, a beloved physician, family man, and philanthropist, died Aug. 6 from natural causes. He was 92. Strauss was a family...
View ArticleBENSONHURST: Gun-toting thugs rob fisherman
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Will BreddermanBrooklyn Daily62nd Precinct Bensonhurst—Bath Beach Deadliest catch Two gun-toting punks robbed a fisherman on the Shore Parkway promenade on Aug....
View ArticleBAY RIDGE: Last call! 93 Lounge loses its booze
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Will BreddermanBrooklyn DailyThe state dealt a deathblow to controversial Ridge nightspot 93 Lounge on Aug. 13 — but the knock-out punch was a bit of a left hook....
View ArticleNOT FOR NUTHIN’: What the flip is Flipping?
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyWhat the flip? Flipping, it’s the latest scheming sensation sweeping the nation for criminals to make a buck. And according to...
View ArticleBOROBEAT: Coney kids play in MCU Park — and even meet Santa!
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Melissa GoldinBrooklyn DailyChristmas came early at MCU Park on Aug. 9 for hundreds of Coney Island children affected by...
View ArticleBOROBEAT: World of wonder — Deno’s Wonder Wheel hosts Coney throwback
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Will BreddermanBrooklyn DailyThousands of visitors turned back the clock to the last century at the third annual Coney...
View ArticleJOE KNOWS: Lincoln’s Whitehead embraces role as face of New York City hoops
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joseph StaszewskiBrooklyn DailyAbraham Lincoln’s Isaiah Whitehead was more than just a participant in the Big Strick Classic high-school basketball all-star game...
View ArticleTHE GREATEST STORY EVER: Brooklyn invades Sweden
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Danielle FurfaroBrooklyn DailyThey gave us delicious meatballs and Ikea. Now, Brooklyn is giving Sweden an injection of...
View ArticleA BRITISHER’S VIEW: A Britisher’s View is on vacation
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Shavana AbruzzoBrooklyn DailyRead Shavana Abruzzo's column every Friday on BrooklynDaily.com. E-mail here at sabruzzo@cnglocal.com. Comment on this story.
View ArticleSTANDING O: City Tech professor is busy keepng our structures safe.
Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyProspect Heights Professor Illya Azaroff, that’s who. The dashing expert on all things disaster...
View ArticleSTANDING O: Is that Standing O in your hand?
See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyPark Slope Mae West once said that an ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises. The borough’s first diva, the platinum-haired...
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