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

Published by WNBC on September 5, 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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

Teachers who drive and to want to work in Brooklyn should consider PS 21 in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Published by New York Post on August 28, 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.

"There's no doubt about it. It's a real problem," said Jeff Kaufman, a teacher at Brooklyn's EBC/East New York High School for Public Safety & Law, which had an average Friday attendance last fall of 54.9%. "If there's a Monday holiday, forget it."

Published by New York Daily News on August 24, 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.

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.

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 SI Live 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.

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.

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.

Achievement First Brownsville Charter School: The Achievement First Brownsville Charter School is opening at 2021 Bergen St. with 84 fifth grade students, growing to serve 645 students in kindergarten through eighth grades.

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

LOCATION: The Players Theatre, 115 MacDougal Street

Published by NY1 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.

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.

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.

'Hundred Acres' is local, farm fresh and it's where we'll find CBS 2's Tony Tantillo for this week's 'Dining Deal.'

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

Police were called to the house at 145 Macdougal Street at 12:20 a.m. on Wednesday.

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

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.

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.

Brokers and future residents help Habitat for Humanity build at 24 Sherlock Place in Brooklyn.

Published by New York Daily News on August 8, 2008.

Other bold-faced names included in the collection of black-and-white and color photography by Brownsville native Laylah Amatullah Barrayn are Ladybug Mecca, Randy Weston, Mos Def and DJ Spooky — pictured with other musicians, educators and painters.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 8, 2008.

He is often quoted in stories about Yankel Rosenbaum, the Jewish scholar who was killed in the Crown Heights rioting in 1991. (Mr. Abraham is a friend of the Rosenbaum family.)

Published by New York Times on August 8, 2008.

An interested reader sent in this photograph showing how Representative Ed Towns, a Hillary Clinton supporter who faces a primary challenge this year, has embraced Barack Obama's campaign. The picture was taken this afternoon and is of the building at 203 Ralph Street in Brooklyn, not far from Towns' office.

Published by The New York Observer on August 8, 2008.

Of the 15 ZIP codes with the most foreclosures, nine are in Queens and three are in Brooklyn, basically following a crescent-shaped corridor running roughly along the neighborhoods of Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville, Ocean Hill and Flatbush. The last three of the top 15 are in Staten Island.

Published by The New York Observer on August 7, 2008.

Of the 15 ZIP codes with the most foreclosures, nine are in Queens and three are in Brooklyn, basically following a crescent-shaped corridor running roughly along the neighborhoods of Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville, Ocean Hill and Flatbush. The last three of the top 15 are in Staten Island.

Published by The New York Observer on August 7, 2008.

Frazier, riding his bicycle along Pacific Street in Crown Heights, saw his intended target, Franklin Gillespie, 17. But before Frazier could shoot, Kelly said, Gillespie's friend, Luis Gonzalez, 18, pulled out his own gun and fired.

Published by amNY.com on August 7, 2008.

"People in other parts of the city don't have specific privileges," said Michael Dansbury of Crown Heights. "Why here as opposed to elsewhere? Why here as opposed to Harlem?"

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 7, 2008.

A 9-year-old boy was killed in crossfire on Monday night, prompting anger in Crown Heights.

Published by New York Times on August 7, 2008.

The fatal shooting of a nine-year-old boy in Crown Heights has left the neighborhood in a mood of frustration.

Published by New York Times on August 6, 2008.