Nickey allegedly shot Butler in the chest in Lincoln Terrace Park in Brooklyn in late June.

Published by WNBC on September 5, 2008.

A: My office’s Legal Lives program brings the criminal justice system into approximately 250 Brooklyn fifth-grade classrooms. I founded Legal Lives in 1990 in response to a drastic increase...

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on September 4, 2008.

Above is a photo of the Brooklyn Children's Museum's sparkling new lobby -- part of the Rafael Vinoly-designed addition that doubled the size of the hands-on museum for little ones to more than 100,000 square feet.

Published by The New York Observer 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

...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.

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.

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.

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.

This beauty at 1094 Park Place in Crown Heights caught our eye as an Open House Pick last fall when it...

Published by Brownstoner on August 28, 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.

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.

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.

...place coming up for foreclosure auction this week is this two-family limestone house at 1090 Prospect Place in Crown Heights. The house sold most recently back in 2004 for $400,000 and...

Published by Brownstoner 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.

...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.

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.

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.

The Brooklyn Children's Museum -- the hands-on instititution popular with tykes from Tremont to Poughkeepsie -- is slated to reopen as the first LEED-certified museum in New York City on Sept. 20, according to a spokeswoman for the project and Interior Design.

Published by The New York Observer 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 SI Live 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.

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.

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.

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.

The U.S. Army’s “Planning for Life” program will visit teens at St. John’s Recreation Center, 1251 Prospect Place, to help them plan for a successful life after high school.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 20, 2008.

Middle School for Academic and Social Excellence, 1224 Park Place

Published by NY1 on August 20, 2008.

LOCATION: Brower Park at Brooklyn Ave & Prospect Place

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.

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.

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.

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.

...Americans in the U.S. and about urban archaeology. The landmarked houses are located at 1698-1708 Bergen Street, between Rochester and Buffalo roads. An excellent booklet on Weeksville is available in the museum...

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 18, 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.

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.

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.

The museum, located at the intersection of Brooklyn Avenue and St. Marks Avenue in Crown Heights, is also slated to be the city’s first LEED Silver museum.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle 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.

First-time participant Lisa Henderson of Crown Heights was having trouble with her swing, so Dave Campanaro pitched to her from in front of the protective screen a few feet in front of the mound.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 12, 2008.

Also, due to ongoing signal problems on the express track at the 23rd Street Station, Crown Heights-bound 4 trains and Bowling Green-bound 5 trains are running with delays.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 12, 2008.