Odyssey Head, 27, is also now charged with a fourth slashing. He was caught shoplifting a pair of shoes from the Flatbush Burlington Coat Factory on Tilden Ave. at about 12:50 p.m. on Sept. 14, police say. A store worker made him give the shoes back, and Head angrily slashed an 80-year-old customer in the back of his head as he stormed out of the store, according to cops.
"I think it's about just the mindset and really how can we trust ourselves? And trust our work? And trust our coaches who have been putting this information into our heads throughout the summer? How can we execute it better? How can we be more aggressive?"
A youth counselor at a juvenile detention facility in Brooklyn pocketed more than $70,000 in bribes to sneak in drugs and weapons, Big Apple investigators said Thursday. Lymek Frazier, 31, is accused of taking payments from relatives and friends of youths locked up at the Crossroads Juvenile Center through cash apps, including over $21,000 in bribes in 48 "transactions" over just six months last year, the New York City Department of Investigation announced.
A mother is pleading for justice after her 13-year-old son was stabbed in the back in Brooklyn last week. Police said what started as kids throwing objects at passing cars ended with a violent assault. "He did not deserve what happened to him" Dyasia Perez said on Oct. 19, her son was with a group of friends in East New York. "One friend out of the group of children decided that they wanted to throw a rock at a car," she said.
The art-lending program launches alongside "Department of Transformation: Letters for the Future," a sprawling, brain-sparky exhibition opening November 3 in the Central Library's Grand Lobby and second floor and running through January 25, 2026. Curated by the artist-organized collective Department of Transformation with BPL Presents, the show includes more than 40 artists and collectives working across painting, sculpture, performance, video, books and zines. Think of it as a library-meets-gallery-meets-workshop-meets-karaoke fever dream, designed to get New Yorkers thinking, reading and imagining together.
Shopping for a new mattress might sound intimidating, but it doesn't have to be. Once you decide on where you want to buy your mattress, figuring out the rest is all a matter of determining your preferences on firmness and features. That's why we launched our Personal Shopper series, where our editors go to top retailers and test out all the products in a specific category, taking pictures and detailed notes along the way.
Everybody is bracing and everybody is worried, and rightfully so. Not having SNAP is going to make a difference to a lot of families in our area and in our city, and any projected cuts that might come from the past budget are also going to impact our families,
Guyanese officials say they will seek the death penalty for an alleged Venezuelan criminal gang member if he is found guilty of planting a bomb at a petrol station on Sunday that killed a schoolgirl and injured four people. Police captured Daniel Alexander Ramirez Peodomo at a coastal village on Tuesday, two days after they said that CCTV footage had placed him at a city Mobil Petrol station with a bag containing the explosives that killed a six-year-old girl and hurt four other people.
When the lights go down and the first notes of a concert echo through Barclays Center, there's one person whose vision and passion have helped make that moment possible: Laurie Jacoby. As Chief Entertainment Officer for Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment, Jacoby oversees all programming and live events at the Barclays Center - a role that has not only elevated the arena's global profile but also redefined how Brooklyn experiences live entertainment.
My district is home to some of the most active senior centers in the city, as well as beautiful libraries. Unfortunately, many of the institutions are under threat from federal funding cuts. In order for these havens of lifelong learning to continue to provide the highest quality services possible we need to ensure that funding can be replaced by the city.
Far too many seniors in our district struggle with health care access, and I am deeply concerned about federal cuts to Medicare making this problem worse. It is critical that the city step up to replace funding that is cut on a federal level. It is critical that whoever we elect to City Council has experience working with programs like Access-a-Ride, because bureaucratic hurdles are the last thing that should be impacting the health of our seniors.
Our city's child care costs rank among the highest in the nation, so every New Yorker knows a family member, a friend, or a colleague who has struggled to afford child care. From the earliest days of our administration, we have made affordable child care a priority and have said again and again that working-class New York City families should not have to choose between child care and putting food on the table.
That's when New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Assemblymember Marcela Mitaynes, whose district includes Sunset Park, along with New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and Council Member Alexa Avilés, stepped in. The lawmakers secured $1.1 million in discretionary funding - $500,000 from the City Council and $600,000 from the State Assembly - ensuring the reopening of the center after a brief closure.
BROOKLYN, NY - A man is in critical condition after he was shot in the head in Brooklyn on Thursday, police said Friday. The incident happened at 275 Jackson Ave. around 3:30 p.m. The 39-year-old man was taken to NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull, according to police. What led up to the shooting is not known at this time. Police are looking for two possible suspects. No arrests have been made. An investigation remains ongoing.
After being elected with only two weeks left of session, I'm proud of all three of the bills that I introduced. Despite the short timeframe, I was able to get three bills passed: S8256, which creates a clear accommodation for sabbath observance for trash tickets; S8257, which improves access to fertility care; and S8265, which ensures continued access to backup devices for patients with cochlear implants.
Accessing the internet is not a luxury in the 21st century, and high speed internet ought to be thought of as an essential utility like water or gas. It is unconscionable that seniors and school-age kids stand outside of private businesses across our city simply to access the internet, and we must do better. While it seems likely that federal funding for broadband expansion will be unreliable for at least the next four years,
In Bushwick, Stanton - a kind of modern Michelangelo, or at least a painter who specializes in realistic, imaginative murals - painted a pair of murals, "Ariadne and the Flowers" and "Flower Boy" on a 150-foot-long, 15-foot-tall wall. The work is so big, he said, that he used a drone to get good images. Located at 421 Troutman St., the piece was commissioned by Quebracho, a custom framing company surrounded by cafes, bars, clubs, restaurants and other nightlife.
There are three that I want to highlight. S 244: Establishes a fiscal cliff task force to conduct a study on fiscal cliffs in the state's public assistance programs and to make recommendations. S 181: Expands the membership of the interagency task force on trafficking in persons. S00785: Adds medical and health insurance information within the definitions of personal identifying information.
Roughly 3,000 Brooklynites marched through Park Slope on Saturday to denounce President Donald Trump and his cabinet as part of the nationwide No Kings march. Waving signs and banners with slogans like "United We Stand, divided Democracy Falls" and "Kings Are For Fairytales," protestors of all ages marched from Grand Army Plaza to Bartel Pritchard Square, pushing back against the administration's "chaos, corruption, and cruelty."
Officers took Yonathan Guzman, 22, into custody shortly before 5 p.m., charging him with murder and three counts of criminal weapons possession, NYPD officials said. Guzman is accused of shooting the 24-year-old man inside the building where Guzman lived, on Dorchester Road near East 21st Street early Sunday. Police said they responded to a 911 call about someone shot at the address around 2 a.m.
