Now, however, a dive implies the kind of no-frills, incandescently-lit, happy hour staple enjoyed by young professionals and old barflies alike. It means somewhere you'll get a cold beer, a sporting event on T.V. (no matter how obscure), and conversation with good bartenders who don't pretend to know any shirt-gartered mixological mastery. They'll make you a Negroni, sure. But there's a very slight chance you'll be looked at askance.
Dozens of the city's new space-age garbage containers crash-landed in Brooklyn over the last week, marking the latest move by the sanitation department to eradicate mountains of trash bags from sidewalks. The large, gray bins made by the Spanish company Contenur are a common sight in parts of Upper Manhattan, where the sanitation department has rolled them out over the last year as part of a pilot program.
A 24-year-old man was shot to death early Sunday in a Brooklyn apartment building lobby just a block away from where a man's dismembered body was found two days earlier. The shooting victim was blasted in the torso in the lobby of a building on Dorchester Road near E. 21st St. in Flatbush after police received a call of two men involved in a dispute about 2 a.m., officials said. Medics rushed the victim to to Kings County Hospital but he could not be saved.
Police are investigating a grisly discovery in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood, authorities said Friday. Police say a call about a man found dead in front of an apartment building on East 21st Street came in around 9:15 a.m. Law enforcement sources with knowledge of the investigation say a head and a torso were found in a bag, near the garbage area of the building. The investigation is active and ongoing.
A 76-year-old woman in New York City was killed Sunday by a 7-foot solar panel that came loose because of strong winds as a powerful nor'easter battered the East Coast. At around 10:30 a.m. ET, a woman was found unresponsive on a walkway in the Coney Island area of Brooklyn, New York police said Monday. Authorities determined that a solar panel struck the pedestrian in the head. She was taken to Lutheran Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Police say a 76-year-old woman has died in Brooklyn following a solar panel crash Sunday morning. The woman was struck in the head after the panel became loose and fell near Ocean Parkway and Brighton Beach Avenue around 10:30 a.m., according to NYPD officials. Police said she was taken to Lutheran Medical Center, but her injuries ultimately proved to be fatal.
The NYPD is asking for the public's assistance in identifying an individual sought for questioning in connection with an incident of criminal mischief that occurred in Brooklyn. It was reported to police that on Friday, Oct. 10 at approximately 8:35 a.m. in the vicinity of Veronica Place and Snyder Avenue, an unidentified individual allegedly slashed the tires of three marked NYPD police vehicles. The unidentified individual fled the location in an unknown direction.
"He then proceeded to stomp on the victim not once, not twice, but over and over and over again, even while the victim's body was totally limp," Assistant District Attorney Shena Aishnani said last week at the suspect's arraignment. "The victim was completely unconscious and yet the defendant continued to stomp on his body."
Authorities in upstate New York have joined the search for an 11-year-old Brooklyn boy with autism who hasn't been seen in more than a week. The New York City Police Department released a sketch of Jacob Pritchett last week, according to WABC. The outlet reported that authorities had gone to the boy's mother's Brooklyn apartment on Sept. 25 to conduct a wellness check. Jacob, who is reportedly nonverbal, was not found.
New York City Economic Development Corporation, New York City Industrial Development Agency and real estate investor Bungalow Projects have closed on two transactions totaling $552 million to support construction of high-end film and television production studios in Brooklyn. The sites at 176 Dikeman Street in Red Hook and 242 Seigel Street in Bushwick will be branded as Echelon Studios and, the city estimated, serve as economic and industry drivers generating 2,400 jobs between construction and operations.
A man connected to a deadly beating outside the Jay Street-MetroTech subway station in downtown Brooklyn is now in custody, police said. The attack happened around 3 p.m. Tuesday, when officers responded to a 911 call and found a man lying outside the Jay Street-MetroTech station with serious injuries to his face and body, an NYPD spokesperson said.
A suspect is in custody in connection with the death of a man who was found with bodily trauma at the Jay Street-MetroTech subway station in Brooklyn in the middle of the afternoon on Tuesday, police say. According to police, officers responded to a 911 call just after 3 p.m. about a person in need of help. They found the victim unconscious with severe injuries.
A man died Tuesday afternoon after he was brutally beaten at the Jay St.-MetroTech subway station in downtown Brooklyn, cops said. Police rushed to the scene near Lawrence Ave. and Willoughby St. around 3:07 p.m., where they found the unidentified victim unconscious and unresponsive. The man had been punched in the face and kicked in the head multiple times, suffering a skull fracture, according to police sources.
The 12-year-old Brooklyn girl killed in a Brooklyn subway surfing incident had posted terrifying daredevil TikTok videos - including one where she lay on train tracks - in the weeks leading up to her tragic death, The Post has learned. The videos were revealed as young Zemfira Mukhtarov's mother said her pre-teen daughter was obsessed with pulling off the social media stunts despite her parents' pleading, and had snuck out in the middle of the night Saturday before she was killed.
According to law enforcement sources, the tragic incident occurred at around 7:16 on Oct. 6 in the vicinity of Flushing Avenue and N. Elliot Place near the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Officers from the 88th Precinct rushed to the scene upon getting a 911 call about a motor vehicle collision. Officers determined that 60-year-old Theresa Valenti of 53rd Road in Maspeth exited a city bus onto an adjacent sidewalk before attempting to cross an elevated bike lane, which is raised above the roadway to sidewalk grade.
The attack occurred around 3:40 a.m. on Oct. 6, when a 43-year-old woman was sleeping in her Bushwick residence near Pilling Street and Evergreen Avenue, according to the NYPD. Police said the intruder entered through a kitchen window and placed a pillow over the woman's head as she awoke, prompting a struggle. He then restrained her wrists and carried out what investigators described as a sexually motivated act.
Police say an official from East Brooklyn Community School in East Flatbush school called 911 after another student reported that the student in question brought a gun to school. Officers responded and found a loaded 9mm. Last month, a high school student in Queens was taken into custody when cops found a loaded gun on him after he allegedly posted an online threat about shooting up the school.
