70 Rutland Road

Published by Brownstoner on September 5, 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.

Mr. Parker, who represents a district anchored in East Flatbush, is in a primary battle with two challengers: City Council members Kendall Stewart and Simcha Felder.

Published by New York Times on September 2, 2008.

WIADCA president, Yolanda Lezama-Clark will join the Mayor and Governor to kick-off the festivities by cutting a ribbon at Utica Ave and Eastern Parkway at 11 a.m.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on September 1, 2008.

Yesterday, parade organizers were putting the finishing touches on the extravaganza that begins at 11 a.m. Monday at Utica Ave. and Eastern Parkway, and caps a weekend of celebration featuring a range of rich cultural offerings from steel drums to soca stars.

Published by New York Daily News on September 1, 2008.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 approximately 9:30pm:A young bochur riding his bicycle on Albany Avenue near Empire Blvd was stopped by a Police Officer due to the fact that he was riding on...

Published by Crown Heights Shmira blog on August 31, 2008.

Police began hunting for Mizrahi after his mother, Rene, recently discovered 87 meters in the basement of her Flatbush home.

Published by New York Daily News on August 31, 2008.

...performers in front of the Brooklyn Library.) The parade rout begins at the corner of Rochester & Eastern Parkway and ends near Grand Army Plaza where non-masqueraders can jump up with the bands...

Published by mcbrooklyn on August 30, 2008.

(Ron Schweiger, Brooklyn borough historian, said that those two stations preceded the subway lines, and served a grade-level steam railroad, the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railroad.)

Published by New York Times on August 30, 2008.

The mom, schoolteacher Rene Mizrahi, found 87 meters in the basement of her Flatbush home - apparently her son's biggest haul.

Published by New York Daily News on August 30, 2008.

Mr. Parker, a Democrat who represents a district anchored in East Flatbush, is facing two opponents in the primary: City Council members Simcha Felder and Kendall Stewart.

Published by New York Times on August 29, 2008.

The best-kept secret about Grand Army Plaza, the sprawling traffic circle at the top of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, might be that underneath all the road signs and exhaust, it’s actually pretty nice.

Published by New York Times on August 29, 2008.

Don’t let your dog drink the water at Prospect Park’s Dog Beach. Turns out that it has been frequented by disease-ridden rats. [The Brooklyn Paper]

Published by New York Times on August 29, 2008.

The parade beings with a ribbon cutting at Utica Avenue and Eastern Parkway at 11 a.m. There will be more than 70 floats and thousands of colorful masqueraders, some of whom have worked on their costumes for months.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 29, 2008.

Prospect Park’s Dog Beach, where hundreds of dogs cool off each day, has become a haven for disease-ridden rats whose bacteria-laden feces and urine could kill the canines.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 28, 2008.

But you should see his ride. When he's not ensconced in 770 Eastern Parkway, the center of the Chabad-Lubavitch universe, the 26-year-old Israeli and his crew drive around in a blinged-out Cadillac, a regular kandy-kolored streamline baby. Oy vey.

Published by Village Voice on August 27, 2008.

As the conversation winded down, fireworks appeared in the sky above Prospect Park as if to offer a smug self congratulatory pat on the back to neighborhood residents.

Published by The New York Observer on August 26, 2008.

How does this sound: a totally "car-free" Prospect Park in Brooklyn? It's a proposal a group of bicycle activists is pushing hard for next summer.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 26, 2008.

Advocates of a car-free Prospect Park say they have successfully whittled away at the number of hours that cars can use the park each day and are within striking distance of having them banned altogether.

Published by New York Sun on August 26, 2008.

Parker appears to have taken advantage of that: During that 60-day gap, he spent at least $39,736 on mailings to constituents - putting his name and face on messages about home foreclosures, tourism and an East Flatbush farmers market.

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

Cornelius Abson, 36, a resident of the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, was arrested Wednesday for choking Lillian France in a Crown Heights elevator last Thursday and robbing her of $900. Police say he implicated himself in that crime, as well as the July 11 robbery of a 67-year-old man in Flatbush.

Published by New York Sun on August 22, 2008.

96 Fenimore Street

Published by Brownstoner on August 22, 2008.

...been known as “Doctor’s Row,” line the thoroughfare. A large Tudor-style building at 770 Eastern Parkway is the world headquarters of the Lubavitch movement...

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 22, 2008.

The attacks have frightened residents in the Crown Heights, Flatbush and Kensington sections of Brooklyn, and police have beefed up patrols in those areas.

Published by amNY.com on August 21, 2008.

A dozen Brooklyn residents have fallen victim to a cowardly punk who ambushes from behind, cops say. Here is the list of his Flatbush, Crown Heights and Kensington attacks, police said.

Published by New York Daily News on August 21, 2008.

Police believe the man who attacked and robbed France of $900 and her cane in her own building is also responsible for at least a dozen similar muggings against the elderly - over the last two months in Flatbush, Crown Heights, and Kensington.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 21, 2008.

The attacks have frightened residents in the Crown Heights, Flatbush and Kensington sections of Brooklyn, and police have beefed up patrols in those areas.

Published by SI Live on August 21, 2008.

The suspect has struck 12 times in the last two months in Flatbush, Crown Heights, and Kensington.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 20, 2008.

A security camera captured a man attacking an 85-year-old woman in the latest of at least 10 similar assaults in Brooklyn’s Flatbush, Crown Heights and Kensington neighborhoods.

Published by New York Times on August 19, 2008.

One man has viciously attacked and robbed 11 elderly women and one elderly man across Brooklyn over the past two months, the police department announced yesterday.

Published by New York Sun on August 19, 2008.

LOCATION: 626 Flatbush Avenue

Published by NY1 on August 19, 2008.

According to police, that attack is one of 12 attacks since June 27 in Flatbush, Crown Heights and Kensington. The victims range in age from the mid-50s to the mid-80s. Most of the victims are women, and many of the attacks happened in elevators.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 19, 2008.

Cops released disturbing surveillance video Monday of the thug who has terrorized at least a dozen Brooklyn seniors, stalking apartments in Crown Heights, Flatbush and Kensington all summer.

Published by New York Daily News on August 19, 2008.

Authorities said the attack was one of a dozen incidents since the end of June in the Crown Heights, Flatbush and Kensington sections of Brooklyn.

Published by SI Live on August 19, 2008.

He made off with her purse and cane.The tape then shows him escaping down a flight of stairs at 1015 Washington Ave. in Crown Heights.

Published by WNBC on August 18, 2008.

Police believe the cowardly thug has gone after nearly a dozen seniors in Crown Heights, Kensington and Flatbush during the last few months.

Published by New York Daily News on August 18, 2008.

Borough President Markowitz will celebrate Brooklyn’s diversity by inviting everyone in Brooklyn to see the movie “Hairspray” on Wednesday night in Prospect Park.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 18, 2008.

The incident happened inside 1015 Washington Avenue in the Wingate section.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 18, 2008.

1244 Union Street

Published by Brownstoner on August 15, 2008.

The union is also endorsing State Senator Kevin S. Parker, who is in a highly competitive Democratic primary in a district anchored in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. Mr. Parker, who is seeking a fourth term in the Senate, is being challenged by two members of the City Council: Simcha Felder and Kendall Stewart.

Published by New York Times on August 15, 2008.

The two organizations will provide a $4.7 million construction loan for the project, a top-to-bottom full rehabilitation of two vacant and one partially occupied residential building at 2516 Newkirk Ave., 561 Rogers Ave. and 2506 Albemarle Road.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 14, 2008.

Happily, the first guy shoved far ahead of the second at Dylan's show as part of the Celebrate Brooklyn series at the Prospect Park Bandshell Tuesday night. Usually these shows charge no fee, but this event served as a benefit for the series, so it cost $55 for the lawn, $85 for seats.

Published by New York Daily News on August 13, 2008.

...doubt the answer is as high as 70 percent. That's that the owners of 280 Lefferts Avenue—which traded for $430,000 in 2005—are shooting for with their asking price of...

Published by Brownstoner on August 13, 2008.

...and called Crown Heights Shmira however he lost sight of them near the corner of Lefferts and Kingston Avenues...

Published by Crown Heights Shmira blog on August 13, 2008.

Tickets for Oscar and Pulitzer winner Bob Dylan's Prospect Park concert tonight are going for upward of $565 each, according to Gowanus Lounge. Meanwhile, tomorrow's print Observer will have a story about a real estate deal that connects to Mr. Dylan.

Published by The New York Observer on August 12, 2008.

...continuing to hit him. The muggers took his cell phone and wallet then fled on Troy Ave towards President Street. The victim made his way down Crown Street where he encountered a passerby who called...

Published by Crown Heights Shmira blog on August 12, 2008.

Sunday, August 10, 2008 at approximately 8:00pm: A Bochur walking on Crown Street near Troy Avenue heard footsteps from behind and as he turned around he was hit. He saw 3...

Published by Crown Heights Shmira blog on August 12, 2008.

That music in the air this evening could be coming from a couple of nice Jewish boys who happen to have arrived in town at the same time: Neil Diamond, at Madison Square Garden, and Bob Dylan, at Prospect Park in Brooklyn.

Published by New York Daily News on August 12, 2008.

Cops said Paredes' pal Roger Vado, 23, of Flatbush, threw a bottle, hitting one man, who was treated at the scene. No other injuries were reported in the station, which was packed with revelers from the Dominican Day Parade on Sixth Ave.

Published by New York Daily News on August 11, 2008.

"He knocked on the glass [and] said 'Help, call the ambulance! I'm shot,' " recalled the teen driver. "He fell and dropped to the ground."

Published by New York Daily News on August 10, 2008.