"[My father] was like a guardian angel," said the younger Brown, who returned to the charred Bedford-Stuyvesant building yesterday.

Published by New York Daily News on July 24, 2008.

Chaka Bess, 32, arrived home at his Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment building about 7:55 p.m. to see flames shooting from a third-floor window.

Published by New York Daily News on July 23, 2008.

The good Samaritan, Chakka Bess, climbed a fire escape and smashed a window to rescue a woman and a 15-year-old from the Bedford-Stuyvesant building.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 23, 2008.

Thieves broke into a Conselyea Street construction site and stole valuable copper pipes. The crooks pushed their way through a boarded up ground floor window between 4:30 pm on July 11 and noon on July 15, cops said. Once inside the building, which is between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street, the thieves stole $100 worth of copper pipes and a water meter.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 23, 2008.

A crook turned out with more than he bargained for when he stole a Dodge sedan from a Graham Avenue spot on July 15. The thief hotwired the car between 3 and 4 am, escaping with car, which was parked at the corner of Frost Street, and a Mac laptop.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 23, 2008.