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.

114 Forrest Street.

Published by BushwickBK.com 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.

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.

...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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

1142 Myrtle Ave.

Published by BushwickBK.com on August 28, 2008.

114 Forrest Street.

Published by BushwickBK.com 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.

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.

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.

"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.

"These elevators are completely out of control," said Carlos Rodriguez, 43, a 20-year resident of 140 Moore St., where Milan died. "They stop between floors. They skip floors. Sometimes, you can see the shaft all the way to the bottom when the doors open."

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

I love the concerts, but I often think about how much more there is to Williamsburg than that scene. The recent revival of the park has made it home to a rich convergence of different cultures that reflects the neighborhood’s varied and complex face.

Published by New York Times on August 23, 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.

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.

The Brooklyn Navy Yard is a 300-acre industrial park with more than 40 buildings located along the East River between the Williamsburg and Manhattan Bridges.

Published by New York Times on August 22, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

114 Forrest Street.

Published by BushwickBK.com on August 14, 2008.

304 Boerum Street, Buzzer #11.

Published by BushwickBK.com 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

“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.

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.

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.

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.