The ugly episode began after Benoit and some family members went to the Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment she shared with Haynes before their breakup to collect her things, ASPCA Assistant Director Joseph Pentangelo said.

Published by New York Daily News on September 6, 2008.

70 Greenpoint Ave., Brooklyn.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on September 5, 2008.

"If they don't want to pay, I just leave them alone," one driver on the B44 route in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, said Wednesday, declining to give his name.

Published by New York Daily News on September 4, 2008.

As with Hollywood, the music industry seems have gone on a bit of a vacation these last few weeks. Maybe we’re just bummed about the final concert at McCarren Park Pool, but there doesn’t seem to be much going on.

Published by The New York Observer on September 4, 2008.

1053 Flushing Ave.

Published by BushwickBK.com on September 4, 2008.

1037 Flushing Ave.

Published by BushwickBK.com on September 4, 2008.

A source said the rent for the Bedford-Stuyvesant home, which hadn't been reported prior to 2007, was from his ex-wife Angela Jeter. The couple divorced in 1984. Thompson, a leading candidate for mayor in 2009, also showed credit card debt: $5,000 on his American Express Optima and $5,000 on an account with North Fork Bank.

Published by New York Daily News on September 4, 2008.

Above-ground fare-beating is most prevalent on 10 routes in Brooklyn and the Bronx, according to NYC Transit. The worst is the B46 in Brooklyn where drivers have reported "theft of service" at a rate of about 4,000 a week. The route runs the length of the borough, between Williamsburg and Marine Park, through Crown Heights, Bedford-Stuyvesant and East Flatbush and Flatlands.

Published by New York Daily News on September 3, 2008.

Cancel allegedly confessed after cops arrested him at about 12:45 yesterday at his father's home in Ridgewood, Queens.

Published by New York Post on September 3, 2008.

Above-ground fare-beating is most prevalent on 10 routes in Brooklyn and the Bronx, according to NYC Transit. The worst is the B46 in Brooklyn where drivers have reported "theft of service" at a rate of about 4,000 a week. The route runs the length of the borough, between Williamsburg and Marine Park, through Crown Heights, Bedford-Stuyvesant and East Flatbush and Flatlands.

Published by New York Daily News on September 3, 2008.

Male and female characters from the performance artist Yvette Helin’s Pedestrian Project serve as the canvas for scenes from Greenpoint, Brooklyn: clockwise from upper left, graffiti on Clay Street, the “eggs” of the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, a patriotic mural on Berry Street and a soccer field at McCarren Park.

Published by New York Times on September 2, 2008.

The Brick Theater’s New York Clown Theatre Festival kicks off with the Clown Subway Parade, featuring hundreds of clowns storming our subway system at the Union Square stop, where they will alight for—where else—Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, handing out red clown noses and injecting sheer terror into your evening commute.

Published by The New York Observer on September 2, 2008.

One was taken just months before the family's Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, apartment became a house of horrors.

Published by New York Daily News on September 2, 2008.

Male and female characters from the performance artist Yvette Helin’s Pedestrian Project serve as the canvas for scenes from Greenpoint, Brooklyn: clockwise from upper left, graffiti on Clay Street, the “eggs” of the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, a patriotic mural on Berry Street and a soccer field at McCarren Park.

Published by New York Times on September 2, 2008.

...facility, which includes a small parking lot. It’s the Boar’s Head Provision Company. 24 Rock Street is the address. And the street itself is rumored to be owned by Boar’s...

Published by BushwickBK.com on September 2, 2008.

The Daily News said the DVDs contain about 45 minutes of home movies that show the 7-year-old dancing and singing with her family just months before she was slain in her Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn, apartment, sources said.

Published by WNBC on September 2, 2008.

One last look at McCarren Park Pool, here with the closing act Sonic Youth, before its transformation. [Gowanus Lounge]

Published by New York Times on September 2, 2008.

The suspect confessed after cops arrested him at about 12:45 this morning at his father's home in Ridgewood, Queens. The 22-year-old had allegedly been ransacking and trying to rob the home.

Published by New York Post on September 2, 2008.

Sonic Youth’s performance at McCarren Park Pool this weekend could be the venue’s last. [NY Times]

Published by The New York Observer on September 1, 2008.

Five days later, another grisly discovery: a piece of Brazell's pelvis was found in a Greenpoint recycling plant.

Published by New York Daily News on August 29, 2008.

When a NYPD car roared onto the Bushwick street moments later, Jones turned his wrath on two officers from the 83rd Precinct.

Published by New York Daily News on August 29, 2008.

Named The Viridian and located at 110 Green St., it has also been selected as one of six Brooklyn luxury residential developments for the Observer Living: Condo Showcase set for Sunday, Sept. 21, at the Metropolitan Pavillion in Manhattan.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 29, 2008.

Did you ever really have that much fun at McCarren Park Pool, whose reign as one of New York’s most popular summer show spots will end tomorrow when Sonic Youth brings the curtain down on two years’ worth of weekend concerts at the waterless Williamsburg swimming hole?

Published by The New York Observer on August 29, 2008.

Did you ever really have that much fun at McCarren Park Pool, whose reign as one of New York’s most popular summer show spots will end tomorrow when Sonic Youth brings the curtain down on two years’ worth of weekend concerts at the waterless Williamsburg swimming hole?

Published by The New York Observer on August 29, 2008.

People living close to Morgan and Johnson Avenues are familiar with a rotting marsh smell. Carried by the breeze and powered by the summer heat, the foul stench coming from the English Kills area is just another fact of life for residents near the Bushwick-East Williamsburg line.

Published by BushwickBK.com on August 29, 2008.

...cut-off to qualify as a buyer of this affordable one-bedroom co-op at 154 South 3rd Street in Williamsburg. Of course, just because it's "affordable" doesn't mean that it's...

Published by Brownstoner on August 29, 2008.

Monika Bryniarska was behind the wheel of a 1999 Nissan Maxima when it roared through the intersection of Morgan and Metropolitan Aves. in Williamsburg at 1:50a.m., police said.

Published by New York Daily News on August 29, 2008.

Tomorrow, the Brazells will lead a memorial march in the 19-year-old victim's honor from his old Bushwick apartment to the Bedford-Stuyvesant subway station where his body parts were first found.

Published by New York Daily News on August 29, 2008.

A pedestrian was fatally struck by an allegedly drunk driver in the East Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 28, 2008.

A Williamsburg artist who sought to export his American right of free expression to China and was abused by the tyrants of Tiananmen Square for his trouble, is back in Brooklyn.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 28, 2008.

Police said a woman who was driving under the influence struck and killed a man who was trying to cross the street in East Williamsburg early Thursday.

Published by WNBC on August 28, 2008.

In nearby Bedford-Stuyvesant, Colin and Kristen de Paor – newlyweds married less than three months — are expecting about 15 guests tonight to eat enchiladas and shrimp and drink wine and beer to watch the speech in their apartment.

Published by New York Times on August 28, 2008.

These courts at the intersection of busy Utica Ave. and Fulton St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant are adjacent to Boys and Girls High School, but are apparently not in the domain of the city Department of Education.

Published by New York Daily News on August 28, 2008.

The hoodlums snatched the Canon equipment —valued at about $11,000 — from the sidewalk on North 12 Street near Kent Avenue between 6 and 8 pm,

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 27, 2008.

Burglars got into a single-family home on Havemeyer Street near North Ninth Street through an unlocked rear window, between 8:30 am on Aug. 20, and 3 am the next day. Once inside, they grabbed a Nikon digital camera, a Playstation 3, four power drills, and various electronic cables.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 27, 2008.

...public forum is scheduled for tonight, Aug. 27, at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, at 66 North Sixth St., to discuss the results. Doors open at 6 p.m. If you are not able...

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 27, 2008.

Two Brooklyn teens have been charged with attempted murder in an incident that could have left a uniformed police officer dead or wounded.The incident was caught on surveillance video Sunday in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Published by WNBC on August 27, 2008.

The Hipster: Brooklyn, Bedford Ave., west side, near N. Sixth St.

Published by Derivative Works on August 27, 2008.

The future garden at South Fourth and Hewes St., now owned by a local nonprofit, has stood vacant as long as anyone can remember.

Published by New York Daily News on August 27, 2008.

The suspected hoodlums — along with three or four accomplices — confronted the relatives at the corner of Withers Street and Woodpoint Road at around 9:40 pm.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 27, 2008.

The crook grabbed the victim’s Northface bag from a spot near the corner of Lorimer Street and Bedford Avenue at around 11:30 am, and escaped from the park with the victim’s cellphone, Kenneth Cole wallet, bankcards, IDs, J. Crew sweater, and $120.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 27, 2008.

Thieves stole a man’s backpack as he tossed a Frisbee in McCarren Park on Aug. 21.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 27, 2008.

The thieves grabbed the bag at around 10 pm as the victim walked past the corner of Leonard and Withers Street, and fled with the her IDs and $16.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 27, 2008.

The crook put his victim in a chokehold at the corner of Union Avenue and Frost Street at around 7 am as he walked home from his girlfriend’s apartment.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 27, 2008.

This new eight-unit building going up at 168 Meserole Street in East Williamsburg has Scarano written all over it. While the brick choice and double...

Published by Brownstoner on August 26, 2008.

Dumping of industrial materials into Newtown Creek dates as far back as the 19th century, but the oil spill that is the subject of litigation and legislation is believed to have begun in the 1950s.

Published by New York Times on August 26, 2008.

The federal Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to conduct “preliminary tests” that could lead to Newtown Creek being named a federal Superfund site, a designation that could accelerate long-stalled cleanup efforts in the polluted, oil-slicked 3.5-mile estuary between Queens and Brooklyn.

Published by New York Times on August 25, 2008.

GREENPOINT — A new condominium conversion at 118 Greenpoint Ave., between Franklin Street and Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint, is on a street consisting almost entirely of 19th century brick-front buildings in the Greenpoint Historic District.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 25, 2008.

"He was all I had," added his grandmother, Corrine Brandt, 87, at the Williamsburg apartment she shared with him. "It just won't be the same."

Published by New York Daily News on August 25, 2008.

Saturday night, a portion of the Mass at Christ Tabernacle Church in Glendale was dedicated to Donna Rypkema, who remains hospitalized in serious condition with head trauma, suffered after a dead tree branch fell on her while from a railway overpass in Ridgewood.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 24, 2008.