A six-year-old boy in Brooklyn was struck and killed by an SUV Friday afternoon as he and his mother waited to cross the street in East Flatbush. Shawna Spaulding was walking her son Clarente Turner home from PS 219 in Brooklyn when they were hit waiting in the median of Kings Highway. A collision between a Nissan Pathfinder and a Chrysler Pacifica sent the SUV flying into the median where it hit both mother and......

Three people were shot last night around East 94th Street and Church in Brooklyn. A car is also full of bullets. WABC 7 reports that while the "conditions of the victims are unknown," one victim may have been shot in the head, another was shot in the arm, and a third victim was able to drive to the hospital. Police are investigating.......

In late November 2005, police officer Dillon Stewart and his partner, Paul Lipka, stopped a 1990 Infiniti for a traffic violation (driving with dealer plates) in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. One of the men inside fired five bullets into the unmarked police car (Stewart and Lipka were uniformed), and Stewart (pictured) and Lipka proceeded to chase the car. But then Stewart realized that he had been shot -- the bullet had missed his bulletproof vest by......

Beautiful lawns, flowering bushes, and planters with lush greenery: This morning, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden announced the winners in its 13th annual Greenest Block in Brooklyn Contest. The residential first place winner was MacDonough Street between Stuyvesant and Lewis Avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant (pictured above) while first place for a business/commercial block was Hoyt Street between Atlantic Avenue & State Street in Boerum Hill (pictured below). MacDonagh Street's Greening Coordinator Wilma Atwell said, "Our hard......

In just a few hours, there were five separate shootings all over Brooklyn last night and early this morning. The violence began at 10:20PM in Ditmas Park, when three people were shot at East 21st and Dorchester Road when a gunman opened fire on a man. The 25-year-old known as "Indian" died while a 23-year-old and a 50-year-old, who was shot inside his/her home, were both in stable condition. The second shooting, according to WCBS......

As we mentioned, City Councilman Charles Barron held his press conference yesterday to announce his candidacy for the 2009 Brooklyn Borough Presidency. He told the crowds that his platform included affordable housing, health care accessibility, more jobs, standing up to developers who use eminent domain, ending mayor control of schools and more would help everyone. "Am I going to be a borough president for all the people? Absolutely. But I'm letting y'all know now, I'm......

If you live in the 40th District, an area that covers parts of Crown Heights, Flatbush and East Flatbush, you can vote in tomorrow special election to the seat that used to belong to former City Councilwoman - now Congresswoman - Yvette Clarke. And there's another special election for a City Council seat in Staten Island as well, so South Shore voters, head to the polls. Clarke has given her support to Mathie Eugene, who......

Last night, a 24 year old Tennessee resident was stabbed in East Flatbush off East 54th Street. The NY Times reports that 24 year old Justin Carney was visiting and helping his aunt move into her new apartment building, and around 6PM, yelling was heard from a nearby alleyway. Witnesses say that two men dressed in black stabbed Carney "without warning." Carney managed to go back to the apartment building, but later died at Kings......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a stabbing on East 17th Street, a pedestrian struck by auto in Borough Park, and a police-involved shooting in East Flatbush. A "greedy fisherman" faces up to four years in the clink for lifting "872 pounds of striped bass, 32 pounds of fluke and numerous crabs" out of the heavily contaminated waters off the coast of Rockaway Beach in Queens. Attention local gourmands: an upscale French bistro has opened......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a double shooting with an officer injured in East Flatbush, a big fire in Bushwick, a tripple stabbing in Bay Ridge, and a pedestrian struck by auto on Houston and Avenue B. The U.S. Navy is being called in to pull the Intrepid out of the Hudson River mud. Check out the renderings for Chelsea Cove, a new addition to Hudson River Park. The futuristic-looking Rector Street Bridge will......

+ Reporting live from Black Label's 4th Annual Bike Kill: "it was in your best interest to keep moving as a giant foam, sore-covered penis was on hand to blast clay slurry in the face of the unmindful." + Today in the Gothamist NewsMap: a severed finger in Queens, a boat in distress in the Hudson off 133rd Street, and a multiple homicide in East Flatbush. + Amazing pictures from rural turn-of-the-century Brooklyn. It's......

At the farmer’s market you’re entranced. The stalls swell with the season’s natural bounty—corn, tomatoes, peaches, peppers—all the foods that taste right only when eaten at this time of year. You buy pounds and lug the harvest home. But as the shortening days slip by, those special $2 bags of veggies risk going to rot in your fridge. It’s enough to make a gourmet’s heart sink. What do you do? Can it. That’s what......

The Post reports on two motorcycle deaths yesterday. Ivette Hernandez was killed after being thrown off her boyfriend Louis Perez's motorcycle on the Gowanus Expressway. According to the Post, a car had swerved towards them, and when Hernandez fell, another motorcycle in their group hit her. Perez, who was supposed to propose to her that day, was charged with DUI and "blamed the accident on a motorist trying to merge into traffic." And Lamar Leonard......

Are there any good options for shedding books, clothes, and other goods that one doesn't need anymore before or after a move in NYC? I am about to move and have a lot of books, clothes, CD's, and other items that I'd like to sell or donate. The problem with the Salvation Army in NYC is that it doesn't pick up, and transporting boxes of heavy goods to their office is difficult. I know......

The heated fight for Major Owens' Congressional seat gets hotter as City Council member Yvette Clarke has landed three important endorsements - two from big unions and the other from Congressman Anthony Weiner. Brooklyn's 11th District covers Brownsville, Crown Heights, East Flatbush, Flatbush, and Park Slope, and the race has already attracted four would-be candidates (who would likely be elected to the seat in November): City Council members Clarke and David Yassky, State Senator Carl......

A Brooklyn barbecue party became the scene for a melee involving the partiers and housing cops. The police 'shot 28 year old Robert Ramirez after he allegedly hit one of the cops with a scooter. And Ramirez, whose left lung was removed and is at Brookdale Hospital, was provoked when his stepfather, known as both Adiel Ramirez and Jose Morales, was confronted by the police. It all started when the police asked the courtyard party......

See, this is why angry mobs aren't really a good idea. They're just too quick to judge. For example, yesterday afternoon in East Flatbush a livery driver seemingly lost control of his vehicle and swerved into an 8-year-old riding a bike. When the hack finally stopped crashed his cab into a wall a "group of dozens of bystanders confronted and attacked him." And then it gets crazier. The cabby, as he was being beaten,......

- Lindsay vs. Puffy at Butter! Not surprisingly, Puffy won. - Crazed Staten Island hippie stalker is still gunning for blood! - Looks like the buying vs. renting debate has finally been settled. Since 1990, renters saw a 68% increase in their housing costs. Buyers who re-financed at least once saw a 7% decrease. - Brooklyn Papers got a new website. It's at least 75% less ugly than before! First web-exclusive: Brooklyn Yards "doesn't......

East Flatbush's 67th Precinct sees its share of crime, but early Sunday morning, there were five different incidents in less than five hours that had 10 injured people. Not only did a police officer told reporters, "The Six-Seven right now is a madhouse," the 67th has the dubious honor of being the number 1 precinct for shootings and shooting victims citywide. Here are the five incidents during the sultry night/early morning:- 12:05AM: Two men were......

Little Brandon Aponte, who was kidnapped from a Walton Avenue tattoo shop where his father works on Saturday, was found this morning, along with Tatiana Morales who kidnapped him. They were spotted around 2AM in East Flatbush by police, and the 13 year old Morales was taken into police custody for questioning. The story was very weird. Yesterday, it was reported that Morales was a tattoo shop regular, possibly stripper from Detroit named "Essence," had......

Firefighters responding to reports of a fire on Clarendon Road in East Flatbush actually happened upon a federal offense: Ten bags of undelivered mail, dating from 2002 - not to mention "smoldering letters" nearby. And the culprit? A mail carrier! The Post reports that Gregory Mewborn was arrested after the strange discovery. There must be at least a hundred people who can now legitimately claim they never got that bill or jury summons. And this......

As expected Darryl Littlejohn has been indicted for first-degree murder in the killing of Imette St. Guillen. On a CBS interview last night Littlejohn emphasized his innocence, saying that he had escorted St. Guillen from the Falls because it was closing time. He did not say what happened after that, but said that the police had focused on him because of his past. "I'm a likely suspect because I have a criminal background and......

One of the most depraved crimes in recent memory is being relived at a murder trial in Brooklyn. Raymondo Jack, witness for the Brooklyn DA, testified to seeing Hunter College student Romona Moore tortured and chained in a Brooklyn basement in 2003. Jack had been visiting his friends Troy Hendrix and Kayson Pearson when they showed him Moore. Hendrix and Pearson had kidnapped the 23 year old as she was walking to a Burger King......

Mayor Bloomberg is getting more support - not that he needed it - for his aggressive stand against firearms in the city as well as the NYPD's handling of crminals as the story of Damon Henry makes the rounds. Henry was shot over the weekend by the NYPD when he fired an Uzi (!!!) at them in East Flatbush. The Post says, "The pursuing police responded with about 30 rounds, hitting him in the torso......

Police officer Dillon Stewart (pictured) was shot in the heart by a suspected police shooter in the early hours of Monday morning and died from his wounds a few hours later. Stewart and his partner Paul Lipka had stopped a car for a traffic violation (driving with dealer plates) in East Flatbush, Brooklyn when one of the men inside fired five bullets into the unmarked police car (Stewart and Lipka were in uniform, though), and......

An attempted crime wrapped in another crime: The other day, we were reading about a botched bodega robbery in East Flatbush, where the robber threatened the owners with a gun but somehow ended up getting fatally shot, but not by the owners. The owners and brothers, Odalis Arias and Pofirio Marte, were inside their store when Ryan Walters, accompanied by two other men, demanded their money. Marte was forced to lie on the floor, leaving......

This must a be a new one: A drug dealer kidnapped beacuse her clients "wanted to teach her a lesson" was rescued by the police tracing her cell phone. Apparently Erica Rodriguez's drugs weren't good enough for three men who ended up kidnapping her from her Hamilton Heights home to East Flatbush. Two of the men got away, but the one that was arrested allegedly has a criminal justice degree (his landlord, who works for......

This weekend's shocking crime was the murder of a 15 year old boy over an iPod. Christopher Rose, who lived in Bushkill, Pennsylvania, had been in the city to visit his mother in Brooklyn, when a large group of teenagers demanded the iPod in the Farragut area of East Flatbush on Saturday afternoon; Rose and two other friends were on their way to the Port Authority, to catch a bus back to Pennsylvania. Rose allegedly......

The NYPD was rocked by the murders of two police detectives by an ex-con they were investigating on Friday night. Marlon Legere, a 28 year old man, had been fighting with his mother and taken keys to her car. The mother, Melva Legere, then called the police because she was worried that the unlicensed Marlon would get into an accident. When Detective Robert Parker and Patrick Rafferty went to the East Flatbush home to confront......

Next time you're lying in bed, pray that your upstairs gun-wielding neighbor decides not to shoot a round into the floor, the way Herbert Livingston's neighbor shot through the floor-ceiling and pierced Livingston's shoulder. Livingston was in bed at 8:17AM with his girlfriend in East Flatbush when he was shot. The Post reports the gunman went downstairs to apologize ("It was an accident. I'm sorry."); Livingston said, "How can I be OK if you just......