Shmira and Shomrim, private crime-patrol organizations in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, have been rivals since the late '90s, when they split.

Published by New York Post on September 22, 2008.

The Crown Heights woman was punched, choked and robbed in an elevator at her niece's apartment building on Aug. 14. The attack was captured on video surveillance. Cornelius Abson, 36, a life-long criminal, has confessed to the attack.

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

Piel Brothers Brewery was founded in Brooklyn in May 1883 with a plant at Liberty & Sheffield Aves.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on September 18, 2008.

...crates in Public School No. 174 in the East New York section of Brooklyn at Dumont and Alabama Avenue...

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on September 17, 2008.

Yet Roth, a freelance journalist who has lived in this Crown Heights neighborhood for 14 years, is seeing changes once again.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 15, 2008.

Denia Kearse was in the crowd on President Street in Crown Heights on Saturday night. Shots rang out, and she was hit in the shoulder. She was taken to a nearby hospital and her injuries were not considered life-threatening.

Published by amNY.com on September 15, 2008.

Denia, who was at a block party on President St. in Crown Heights Saturday night, was an innocent bystander, cops said.

Published by New York Daily News on September 15, 2008.

Dania Kerse, 10, was walking out of her grandmother's apartment building on President Street, near Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights just after 8 p.m. when shots rang out, relatives said.

Published by New York Post on September 14, 2008.

Denia Kearse was in the crowd on President Street in Crown Heights on Saturday night.

Published by WNBC on September 14, 2008.

Denia Kearse was in the crowd on President Street in Crown Heights on Saturday night. Shots rang out, and she was hit in the shoulder.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on September 14, 2008.

Residents in Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Crown Heights and Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, the four neighborhoods it separates instead of unites, are hard pressed to figure out how to reach the Bailey Fountain and the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Arch without becoming roadkill. The traffic whizzing around the plaza has been called “the only concrete and asphalt roulette wheel in the world.”

Published by New York Times on September 12, 2008.

A main thoroughfare in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood, an increasingly powerful magnet for recent college graduates and young professionals seeking affordable rent and access to mass transit, is undergoing a transformation.

Published by New York Sun on September 11, 2008.

The court resoundingly reversed a 2000 victory, awarded by a Brownsville, Texas jury, for the heirs of the original settler of Padre Island, who claimed Mr. Kerlin had defrauded them of oil and gas royalties for 60 years.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 11, 2008.

The 21st district includes Crown Heights and Borough Park. Parker faces a tough primary fight from two opponents, City Councilmen Kendal Stewart and Simcha Felder.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on September 9, 2008.

Officers said a man and woman were both found shot in the head in the back of an apartment on Lott Avenue in the 73rd precinct at about 9:45 p.m.

Published by WNBC on September 7, 2008.

Officers responding to a 911 call found the couple dead in the rear bedroom of their third-floor apartment on Lott Ave. in Brownsville about 10 p.m.

Published by New York Daily News on September 7, 2008.

The day is designed to "observe and honor the multiplicity of ethnicities, cultures, religions, and lifestyles that make up our great borough," Mr. Adams said. It will bring together residents for a community dog run in Prospect Park on Saturday morning and a bike ride later through several neighborhoods, including Bedford-Stuyvesant, Park Slope, Crown Heights, and Borough Park.

Published by New York Sun on September 5, 2008.

After the beating in the Brownsville neighborhood, the 26-year-old Small shot Carol twice, killing him.

Published by New York Sun on September 4, 2008.

The Crown Heights Lubavitchers

Published by UPTOWNflavor 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.

The Boyland family has been a power in Brownsville for decades, and now the nephew of the founder of the local dynasty, William F. Boyland Jr., represents the area in the Assembly. This Boyland won the seat in a special election, called when his father resigned only weeks after being re-elected.

Published by Gotham Gazette on September 2, 2008.

The vibrant and festive West Indian-American Day Carnival Parade makes its way through Crown Heights on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn yesterday.

Published by New York Sun on September 2, 2008.

Officers found Katrina Anderson unconscious inside her seventh-floor Ebbets Field apartment in Crown Heights on Friday after getting a 911 call, police said.

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

"The smells, the sights, the women, the costumes - I like to arrive early to get a little preview," said Karl Brown, 27, from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, who works in retail.

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

Spectators waved the flags of a dozen nations as they waited for the parade to move slowly down Eastern Parkway from Crown Heights to Grand Army Plaza.

Published by amNY.com on September 1, 2008.

A 63-year-old Brooklyn woman who was found dead in her apartment on Friday night was killed by a blow to the head during a botched robbery, the police and her family said on Sunday.

Published by New York Times on August 31, 2008.

Relatives of Katrina Anderen became concerned when they didn't hear from her. Later on they discovered her body at her home in Crown Heights.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 30, 2008.

One person who was there on business was Corey Bell, 16, of Crown Heights, who had a cooler full of water bottles that he was selling for $1 apiece to motorists stopped at one of the circle’s traffic lights. Mr. Bell said the traffic around the circle is a little intimidating at first – though it doesn’t bother him when he is selling water.

Published by New York Times on August 29, 2008.

Police sources said two men walked into the Lott Ave., Brownsville, store about noon, confronted Shabazz with a weapon and demanded the cash he kept in a box.

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

For the last two years, Saquan Jones, an auditor at Columbia University, has planned his political future, a plan that has led to his becoming a candidate for an open City Council seat in Brooklyn. Months ago, he held fund-raising events and started his campaign Web site, and he has taken a more hectic schedule of civic involvement in his neighborhood, Crown Heights.

Published by New York Times on August 27, 2008.

You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone in Crown Heights who could point to a single character flaw that the rebbe possessed—or still possesses, because people like Sara Kanevsky insist that he never died.

Published by Village Voice on August 27, 2008.

The neighborhoods that counted the most conditions last month range from leafy Bellerose, Queens, to boisterous Inwood, Manhattan. Those with the fewest included midtown and Gramercy Park in Manhattan; Crown Heights in Brooklyn; Kingsbridge and Riverdale in the Bronx and Astoria in Queens.

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

Mr. Abson was arrested on Wednesday and charged with robbing the woman, Lilian France, in an Aug. 14 attack that was captured on video in the elevator of the Crown Heights building where she had gone to visit her niece.

Published by New York Times on August 22, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lillian France, 85, was jumped from behind and choked until she slumped onto the elevator floor of a Crown Heights building last week. Her attacker ran off with $900 - and her cane.

Published by New York Daily News on August 20, 2008.

Police have released video from the latest incident last week, when 85-year-old Lillian France was choked and robbed of $900 and her cane as she attempted to get off an elevator in a Crown Heights building.

Published by SI Live on August 19, 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.

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.

The surveillance video shows the robber following Lilian France into the elevator of a Crown Heights building, stalking her into a hallway and then choking her from behind.

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

The retired seamstress had made a trip to the bank and the pharmacy before heading to her niece's apartment in Crown Heights on Thursday night.

Published by New York Daily News on August 16, 2008.

Medical help for Ginelis came only after her mother, Kimberly Cantos, 23, got home from work hours later at midnight and called an ambulance to the family's Ocean Hill brownstone.

Published by New York Daily News on August 16, 2008.

He told cops he didn't call 911 because he "did not have access to a phone" and was afraid he would be in trouble. Cantos called for an ambulance after returning to their Ocean Hill brownstone at midnight.

Published by New York Daily News on August 15, 2008.

In addition to Senator Montgomery, the gathering was attended by the Assembly members William F. Boyland Jr., Karim Camera, Hakeem Jeffries and N. Nick Perry. Also there were Jesse Hamilton, a Democratic district leader from Crown Heights, and the Rev. Clinton M. Miller, the pastor of the Brown Memorial Baptist Church.

Published by New York Times on August 14, 2008.

The robberies occur in three neighborhoods -- Bedford-Stuvyesant, Crown Heights and Bushwick.

Published by WNBC on August 13, 2008.