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.

"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.

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.

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.

...going to pay $1,200,000 for this run-down four-story brick house at 139 Clifton Place in Bed Stuy (not, as the listing says, Clinton Hill). The house looks in poor...

Published by Brownstoner on September 2, 2008.

Since we last looked at 339 Greene Avenue in Bedford Stuyvesant, the new residential development has risen from four stories to its final...

Published by Brownstoner on September 2, 2008.

...will be "affordable"?) The developer is also working on another development down the block at 315 Greene Avenue which has also had its share of delays...

Published by Brownstoner 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.

A few others are taking more drastic action. Unable to sell their units, they are converting their projects to rentals—typically taking a major financial hit in the process. The owners of 99 Gold St. in Dumbo and 192 Spencer St. in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn have converted their projects, as has the owner of the Bridges NYC North on Third Avenue in Harlem.

Published by Crain's New York Business on August 31, 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.

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.

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.

Ms. Mosley said she would have about 30 people at her home in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn tonight. Over appetizers and nonalcoholic beverages — “mostly cranberry juice, but definitely no alcohol,” she said — the guests will discuss not only Mr. Obama’s speech, but also the addresses earlier in the week of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Bill Clinton.

Published by New York Times on August 28, 2008.

...will take place between 10 a.m. and noon at the Rose Garden Catering Hall, 380 Flushing Ave.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle 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.

Assemblyman William F. Boyland, D-Brooklyn, on Wednesday will present a “Brooklyn Clergy Appreciation Breakfast” at the Rose Garden Catering Hall, 380 Flushing Ave.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 26, 2008.

In today’s BrooklynPaper.com update, we bring you amazing interviews between our editorial board and two men who want to represent Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill in Congress: longtime Rep. Ed Towns and newcomer Kevin Powell.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 25, 2008.

The property, at 1373 Fulton St., currently contains a one-story, fast-food Burger King restaurant. It comes with an asking price of $3.2 million.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 22, 2008.

Marcy Library, 617 DeKalb Ave., (718) 935-0032

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 22, 2008.

At 10:24 p.m. police responded to calls of gunshots at Quincy Street and Nostrand Avenue, and found two black males with gunshot wounds. One man, 20, had been shot in the chest and was taken to Woodhall Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The second man, 19, had one gunshot wound to the shoulder, police said, and was taken to Kings County Hospital, where his condition is described as stable.

Published by New York Sun 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.

Marcy Library, 617 DeKalb Ave., (718) 935-0032

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle 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.

Mr. Abson, of 520 Gates Avenue is Brooklyn, made statements implicating himself in the two robberies, Mr. Kelly said.

Published by New York Times on August 21, 2008.

Marcy Library, 617 DeKalb Ave., (718) 935-0032

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 20, 2008.

LOCATION: Myrtle Ave & Marcus Garvey Blvd to Franklin Ave & Fulton St

Published by NY1 on August 19, 2008.

LOCATION: Bedford Library, 496 Franklin Avenue

Published by NY1 on August 19, 2008.

The first robbery occurred on July 6 in the 79th Precinct, when two men entered the Sprint Wireless store at 1271 Fulton St., pulled a gun and demanded cash.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle 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.

...Herman hit into a double play while driving in the go-ahead run in a 4-1 Brooklyn win at Ebbets Field on August 15, 1926. Herman doubled with the bases loaded in...

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle 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.

Marcy Library, 617 DeKalb Ave., (718) 935-0032

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 15, 2008.

Beneath the peeling roof of a Hess station at Ralph Avenue in Stuyvesant Heights, framed on the north by the Brevoort housing project and on the south by Kingsborough Houses, are eight self-service pumps — and often just as many hustlers who come and go as their economic needs dictate.

Published by New York Times on August 15, 2008.

Outside an AutoZone store near Washington Avenue in Clinton Hill, several street mechanics work under cars parked on the side of the road, installing parts purchased by the store’s customers.

Published by New York Times 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.

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.

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.

A reader sent us this photo of T-Cup, the new café opening at 627 Throop Avenue, at Decatur Street, in Bed-Stuy. The space had once been a tool rental business...

Published by Brownstoner on August 14, 2008.

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

Published by WNBC on August 13, 2008.

Marcy Library, 617 DeKalb Ave., (718) 935-0032

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle 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.

Jillian D. Peńa, 28 - a doctoral candidate in fine arts in London who got her MA at the Art Institute of Chicago - was in critical condition after getting hit at around 11 a.m. at Myrtle and Marcy avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Published by New York Post 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.

The teens hopped out near Lafayette Ave. and Franklin Ave. without paying the fare. When Malbranche got out of the taxi, one of the girls shot him in the right eye.

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

Police say Melbranche was shot in the face as Pierce and two other young women got out of his yellow cab at Lafayette and Franklin Avenues in Clinton Hill. Among the motives according to cops, they simply didn't want to pay.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 11, 2008.

Mr. Melbranche picked up three young women in his yellow medallion cab early last Thursday morning near Flatbush Avenue and Fulton Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, according to police reports, and drove them about a mile-and-a-half east to Franklin Avenue and Lafayette Avenue.

Published by New York Sun on August 11, 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.