BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH in Bedford-Stuyvesant, which recently completed extensive renovations, will receive a blessing during Mass this Sunday from Bishop Robert Brennan of the Diocese of Brooklyn. Bishop Brennan is scheduled to celebrate a bilingual English-Spanish Mass on June 23 at the church located at 333 Hart Street, during which he […]
A Brooklyn man has been sentenced to 17 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting a woman in Stuyvesant Heights. The victim, a 62-year-old woman, was on her way to work when the defendant attacked her. “This horrific and violent attack on an innocent woman shocks the conscience, and the depravity of the crime […]
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — A STUYVESANT HEIGHTS WOMAN HAS BEEN SENTENCED to 20 years to life in prison for striking and killing a 70-year-old woman with her SUV after she deliberately mounted the sidewalk, attempting to run over a male pedestrian. Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Michael Kitsis presided at the sentencing of Layla Adredini, 33, who […]