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.

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.

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.

"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.

A 3-alarm fire is burning at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, CBS 2 HD has learned. Officials say the fire was first reported just after noon on Friday.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) 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.

On a sunny day in July, I jumped around the Brooklyn Navy Yard with a photographer, amazed at the scope of the 300-acre, 40-building site.

Published by New York Daily News on August 22, 2008.

The new figures were released in the wake of the death of Jacob Neuman, who fell 10 stories down an elevator shaft at the Taylor-Wythe Houses in South Williamsburg.

Published by New York Times on August 22, 2008.

Two separate investigations are now under way into the death of a 5-year-old Brooklyn boy who fell 100 feet down an elevator shaft in his Williamsburg apartment building Tuesday morning.

Published by New York Sun on August 21, 2008.

Cops have collared the man who they say brutally murdered a Bedford-Stuyvesant resident in Prospect Park last month, though his lawyer says that his confession may have been coerced.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 21, 2008.

The Chinese, who are hoping that their efficient oversight of the Beijing Games will wipe away memories of Tiananmen Square, have arrested one of Williamsburg’s best-known multi-media artists after discovering that he planned to project a pro-Tibet message on a building in the Chinese capital.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 21, 2008.

Williamsburg residents are protesting the ongoing demolition of an abandoned power plant by Con Edison, saying the company has failed to address concerns about potential health hazards created by the operation.

Published by New York Sun on August 21, 2008.

The A-line elevator at 70 Clymer St. in Williamsburg got stuck between floors Tuesday morning, trapping Jakob Neuman and his 8-year-old brother Israel.

Published by New York Post on August 21, 2008.

The elevator 5-year-old Jacob Neuman was riding with his older brother got stuck between floors Tuesday - a common occurrence, according to neighbors at the Taylor Wythe Houses in Williamsburg. Jacob crawled out but then lost his footing and plunged 10 stories into the open shaft.

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

...mourning the 5-year-old boy who fell down a housing-project elevator shaft at 70 Clymer St. just before 9 a.m. The trouble started when an elevator became stuck between two...

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 20, 2008.

The city Housing Authority said in a statement that they, as well as other city agencies, were looking into the death. The building, 70 Clymer Street, is part of the Housing Authority's Taylor-Wythe apartment complex

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 20, 2008.

The boy, Jacob Neuman, fell 10 stories to his death on Tuesday when he and his brother became stuck in an elevator in their South Williamsburg building, at 70 Clymer Street, which is part of the New York City Housing Authority’s Taylor-Wythe apartment complex.

Published by New York Times on August 20, 2008.

A hysterical Israel Neuman later told police "that he couldn't grab his brother," said Pessie Gelb, a neighbor of the Neuman family on Clymer St. in Williamsburg.

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

Jakob Neuman was on his way to the Central United Talmudical Academy with his 8-year-old brother, Israel, just before 9 a.m. when they got into the elevator on the 11th floor of 70 Clymer St. in Williamsburg.

Published by New York Post on August 20, 2008.

The Hipster: West side of Bedford Avenue, near North Sixth Street, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Published by New York Times on August 19, 2008.

The tragedy occurred before 9 a.m., when the boy's broken body was discovered in the bottom of the shaft. Police said the boy lived on the 11th floor of the apartment building at 70 Clymer St. in the Williamsburg section.

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

The incident occurred at 70 Clymer Street in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn just before 9 a.m. Tuesday morning.

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

The incident occurred at 70 Clymer Street in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn just before 9 a.m. Tuesday morning.

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

The boy, who was named in reports as Jacob Newman, from 70 Clymer Street in Williamsburg, was on his way to school with his 8 year-old brother, after the elevator they were in became stuck between the 10th and 11th floor.

Published by New York Sun on August 19, 2008.

Each rack reflects its location. A guitar-shaped rack named Hipster has been placed in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood. A rack that looks like a dollar sign is in the Wall Street area.

Published by amNY.com on August 19, 2008.

Jakob Neuman was on his way to the Central United Talmudical Academy with his 8-year-old brother, Israel, just before 9 a.m. when they boarded the elevator on the 11th floor of 70 Clymer St. in Williamsburg.

Published by New York Post on August 19, 2008.

Eyewitness News is told the five-year-old boy fell 10 stories down the shaft at 70 Clymer Street just before 9 a.m.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 19, 2008.

A five-year-old Brooklyn boy fell to his death down an elevator shaft in the building where he lived, the police said on Tuesday. The name of the boy was not released. The boy was with his eight-year-old brother at their building at 70 Clymer Street in Williamsburg when he fell ten stories down the shaft just before 9 a.m., the police said.

Published by New York Times on August 19, 2008.

Ofer Cohen, a commercial broker in the area, says that since there are still many businesses in Sunset Park’s industrial section, the neighborhood is unlikely to transform the way Dumbo and Williamsburg did.

Published by The New York Observer on August 18, 2008.

An unknown shooter walked up to the rising star as he hung outside the Sputnick bar in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, and fired on him once, hitting his yellow hat.

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

A bullet pierced the front of a 20-year-old man's hat just before 4 a.m. on Taaffe Place in Brooklyn. The gold insignia associated with the Latin Kings gang cracked, and cops at the Clinton Hill scene speculated the crown prevented the bullet from doing further damage.

Published by New York Daily News on August 17, 2008.

As they have every year since the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument was built a century ago on a hill in the Olmsted and Vaux-designed park, the Society of Old Brooklynites will remember the 11,500 prisoners of war who died in British captivity on scummy boats moored in what is now the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 15, 2008.

Ivana Pittman, 18, walked into Bedford-Stuyvesant's 79th Precinct stationhouse around 9:45 a.m., a week after the shooting of cabbie Enois Malbranche, 62, blinding him in the right eye.

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

Police found 3-year-old Ginelis Jimenez unconscious inside their home in Bedford-Stuyvesant. She was pronounced dead a short time later.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 15, 2008.

Pittman is the third young woman to be charged in the Aug. 7 shooting of 62-year-old cabbie Enois Malbranche in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 14, 2008.

Authorities want to charge her in the Aug. 7 shooting of 62-year-old cabbie Enois Malbranche in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, LaFaurie said.

Published by New York Daily News on August 14, 2008.

“I think Hank liked the idea that the collection would be coming to Brooklyn,” Professor Cucchiara said, noting that Kaplan was born in Williamsburg. “And it could be that he thought — since I’m both an academician and a boxer — that I would not let him down.”

Published by New York Times on August 13, 2008.

A room on the third floor of a Roman Catholic school in Brooklyn's Williamsburg serves as the chapel of the church on most Sundays.In the meantime, Georgians gather at places like the Tbilisi restaurant -- including ethnic Russians -- to talk and eat together, make calls, and share hopes for a quick end to the conflict.Last weekend, there was no entertainment at Tbilisi.

Published by WNBC on August 13, 2008.

"It's very useful for doing the job," said Yassky. "Our district stretches from Williamsburg to Park Slope. We are out in the field a lot."

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

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

Published by WNBC on August 13, 2008.

It was a depressing day at the L&H Deli in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where Steve Aziz works. Aziz is a first cousin of Sadam Ali, the boxer from Canarsie who made the U.S. Olympic boxing team to great fanfare but made a quick exit Monday, losing in a first-round bout.

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

To date, that agenda has focused around rezonings of areas such as Manhattan’s far West Side, Jamaica and the Williamsburg/Greenpoint waterfront, where the city allows private landowners to develop thousands of housing units and millions of feet of office space.

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

Protesters included members of St. Nino's Georgian Orthodox church choir who formed a circle to sing their native songs. A room on the third floor of a Roman Catholic school in Brooklyn's Williamsburg serves as the chapel of the church on most Sundays.

Published by amNY.com on August 12, 2008.

Once opened, it will join Diner, in Williamsburg hipster magnet, as refurbished, retro diners.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 12, 2008.

Erica Belgrave, 20, turned herself in for her role in the shooting of Enois Malbranche last week in Clinton Hill that left him blind in one eye.

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

A commuter who was rushing to a Brooklyn subway station plunged 10 feet down a narrow shaft after a metal grate gave way Friday.

Published by New York Daily News on August 9, 2008.

A Fire Department spokesman says the man was badly bruised and suffered fractures in the accident Friday morning in Bedford-Stuyvesant. He was taken to a hospital for treatment.

Published by SI Live on August 8, 2008.

After New York City police officers allegedly handcuffed a 10-year-old girl for being noisy and disruptive on a school bus, a prominent civil rights lawyer is bringing a lawsuit challenging the use of handcuffs on minors.

Published by New York Sun on August 8, 2008.

“We have the same occupancy as Williamsburg, but we’re twice the size,” said Elmes. “That’s a benefit of moving here.”

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 8, 2008.

Our borough’s newest outdoor bazaar — The Brooklyn Urban Arts Market — proved that it could weather any storm when its cabanas survived the wind and rain of its opening day in Clinton Hill last month. In fact, the resourceful organizers, vendors, shoppers and musicians of this unique Myrtle Avenue market are determined to return on Aug. 10 with more of the same original, handcrafted wares that set them apart from Kings County’s other flea markets.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 8, 2008.