Fare-cutter gets 15 years for shooting at MTA staff
Samuel White, 52, of Starrett City, on March 23 pleaded guilty to four counts of second-degree attempted murder.
Senior Olympics brings energy and connection to East New York
More than 90 seniors gathered at the Starrett City Older Adult Center on Friday for the JASA’s second annual Senior Olympics.
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Starrett City history
Spring Creek Towers, once Starrett City, opened in 1975 with race-based quotas. It’s now the largest federally subsidized housing project.
Snowy owl spotted at Shirley Chisholm State Park
A SNOWY OWL was spotted recently in Shirley Chisholm State Park, fascinating local bird-watchers and enthusiasts.
Aerial spraying for West Nile virus Thursday night
City Department of Health trucks will be out again Thursday night spraying pesticide mist in parts of Brooklyn and Queens to kill mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus. Spraying will take place between the hours of 8:30 p.m. Thursday night and 6 a.m. Friday morning, weather permitting. This is the sixth time this summer the city […]
More than 30,000 without power in southeast Brooklyn
Just as temperatures of 2019’s first major heat wave broke, so did Brooklyn’s electrical infrastructure. More than 30,000 households in southeast Brooklyn lost power Sunday evening, as Con Edison reportedly severed service in order to “protect the integrity of the energy system,” a spokesperson for the company told the Daily News. Con Edison’s outage map […]
SKETCHES OF COURT: Plaintiff granted settlement for slip and fall at Starrett City
In this courtroom sketch, Hon. Loren Baily-Schiffman listens as attorney Tanya Branch (standing), of the law firm Brody & Branch, conducts a cross-examination of the plaintiff in the premises liability trial Sylvia Charles v. Starrett City. Court Officer Denise Kean displays an evidentiary photograph of an area of the property. At issue was the determination […]
NYC Comptroller Stringer holds Town Hall at Starrett City
On Wednesday, New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer held a Town Hall meeting with the Starrett City Tenants Association meeting at the Brooklyn Sports Club, in Spring Creek. More than 150 residents packed the room to meet the comptroller and voice their concerns for the future of their neighborhood. At the top of residents’ agendas […]