As real estate values in Brooklyn have gone through the roof, homeowners in gentrifying black and brown communities in the borough are increasingly being targeted by housing predators, legislators were told on Friday at Brooklyn Borough Hall. Residents and housing experts testified at a standing-room-only hearing that homes worth millions of dollars are being systematically […]
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez bucked the trend among district attorneys in the state on Saturday, calling for discovery reform in an op-ed published in the Times Union in which he referred to the current system as “trial by ambush.” Discovery refers to a criminal defendant’s right to know details about the evidence that will […]
Police arrested 19-year-old Julius Allen on Wednesday, who they suspect gunned down a new father in Canarsie’s Bayview Houses in November 2018. Allen is charged with murder in the second degree in connection to the death of 26-year-old Anthony Ponce. The victim’s body was found with gunshot wounds to the head and chest in the fifth […]