City councilmembers and Jewish community leaders gathered in Williamsburg Monday to address the sharp spike in anti-Semitic incidents in the city this year, and to call on the mayor to fully fund a new office that seeks to prevent hate crimes. The Office of Hate Crime Prevention, created by the City Council in January, will […]
The Brooklyn man convicted of killing a 22-year-old St. Johns University student at the Crown Heights J’Ouvert festival in 2016 was sentenced to 17 1/3 years in prison Friday, after the victim’s family spoke tearfully about their loss. Reginald Moise shot Tiarah Poyau in the head in the early morning hours of Sept. 5, 2016, […]
Three cyclists killed in Brooklyn in the past week have brought the number of cyclist fatalities in the city so far this year to 10 — the same number the city saw in all of 2018. Eight of the 10 deaths have been in Brooklyn, and five in southern Brooklyn alone. A 16-year-old bicyclist died […]