On the heels of a competitive effort in June’s Queens district attorney primary, during which they backed insurgent candidate Tiffany Cabán, the Democratic Socialists of America are beginning to solidify their 2020 priorities in Brooklyn. Brooklyn DSA’s electoral working group recommended four New York State Assembly and Senate candidates for endorsement in a closed meeting […]
A Brooklyn man accused of a decades-old murder lost a court battle to get his conviction overturned on Thursday — despite the fact that disgraced former detective Louis Scarcella and his partner Stephen Chmil worked the case. Nelson Cruz was convicted as a teenager of shooting a man named Trevor Vieira in East New York […]
Ahead of the MTA’s announcement of its five-year capital investment plan next month, local officials and community members gathered outside Broadway Junction station on Monday to demand the agency fund improvements to the station — including accessibility measures for riders with disabilities. The New York City Economic Development Corporation released last Thursday a preliminary plan […]