East New York

NEW YORK -- Her name means sweet, but this girl is tough. Nine-year-old Dulce Cabrera took a stray bullet to the foot Thursday night after getting ca...

Bikes in New York are as varied as the New Yorkers who ride them. There are the low-riders of the Big Ballers Bike Club in East New York, the classic ...

"I read a New York Times article about the zip codes with the worst crime statistics," writes Chris Arnade on his Flickr page. "I spent a few months l...

NYPD officials are investigating a fatal shooting by police involving an armed man outside his Brooklyn home on Thursday. Sources say police arrive...

Here are some retail events I'd like to see in the year(s) ahead. Some are more likely than others, but the holidays are a time for dreaming, aren't they?

Residents of East New York found what they thought was a wolf roaming their streets on Thursday. Turns out it was a hybrid between wolf and a dog. Pol...

On December 6, not even intermittent sprinkles and overcast skies could dampen the angry heat of several hundred marchers who had converged to protest the heartlessness of the banks and the financial system.

On Tuesday afternoon, Occupy Wall Street protestors turned their attention towards the country's housing crisis with "Occupy Our Homes," a day of acti...

Four fast-moving bandits broke into a Brooklyn Best Buy early Tuesday morning and swiped over $100,000 worth of iPads, ABC News reports. At around ...

Community leaders, drug policy reform advocates and two members of the City Council gave a satirical award to Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday for making New York City the "Marijuana Arrest Capitol Of The World."

Nobody in my family ever bought a sack of charcoal. Paying money for something you were going to set on fire? To the Italian-American psyche, this is an act of supreme madness!

For some seniors, and many of the East New York schools and students, it's impossible to separate street life from school life.

When it comes to crime, East New York continues to be a world apart from the borough and the rest of the city: Murders rose, logging a 41% increase l...