Five people were shot — two fatally — in an hour of bloody mayhem across Brooklyn and the Bronx Tuesday night, police said. At 7:12 p.m., an 18-year-old woman was shot in the leg on Stone Ave. at the Howard Houses in Brownsville by a black man wearing all-gray clothing, a police source said. He was seen fleeing in a black Cadillac. About 7:50 p.m., two teens were shot at St. John’s Park in Crown Heights. Daquan Weston, 18, was shot four times... 

Rihanna is one of the biggest pop stars in the world, but she still makes time for her family. The singer enjoyed hanging out with her grandparents as her grandmother celebrated her birthday Friday [March 16] in Brooklyn.  Read More →

Police are searching for an impoverished woman who left her newborn girl with a good Samaritan who used to feed her. Lydia Romero, who turned 66 on Wednesday, was cooking a family dinner in celebration, when someone came to the door of her Rogers Ave. apartment in Crown Heights just after 6 p.m. Wednesday. When she opened the door, she found the woman she knew only as “Little Bit” standing there and assumed she wanted food. To her shock,... 

The mother of a two-year-old girl have been charged after the toddler was found wandering in the street at 2am wearing only a diaper. The child was spotted by a closed storefront with her bottle by a group of men who were passing by, police said. The little girl was not injured but was taken from where she was found in Brooklyn to Brookdale University Hospital to be checked out. Detectives conducted a search of the Cypress Hills area and finally... 

A home health aide has been arrested on charges of roughing up the helpless 90-year-old Queens woman she was supposed to be caring for. Relatives of retired nurse Bernice Turner were shocked to find her bruised and battered when they visited Sunday. Turner’s aide, Ramdai Narine, 48, was awaiting arraignment Thursday on assault and harassment charges after turning herself in to cops the day before. “Why on earth would you do that?” asked... 

With the clock counting down to its official opening, Barclays Center is casting a wide net to lure sports and entertainment seekers to Brooklyn. Beyond basketball, a new ad blitz for the 18,000-seat arena, which will bring the New Jersey Nets to downtown Brooklyn, will give equal billing to the arena’s other attractions. The first ad in the “In Brooklyn” campaign will tout college basketball, boxing, concerts and family-friendly shows like... 

While the music industry glammed up for Sunday night’s Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, the King and Queen of hip hop enjoyed a low-key night out across the country. Leaving one-month-old daughter Blue Ivy at home, new parents Jay-Z and Beyonce were spotted out on an intimate dinner date at their favorite pizzeria, Lucali, in the Carroll Gardens section of Brooklyn, according to Us Weekly. The superstar couple, who traveled from their home in... 

MAD MAKS got hit with the max Wednesday after a raucous court hearing where he insulted the judge, trashed his victims — and insisted, “I’m not the bad guy here.” A sick smile creased Maksim Gelman’s face after Brooklyn Judge Vincent DelGiudice sentenced him to rot in jail for a bloody killing spree last February that left four dead. “Take him out of my sight,” the judge said after sentencing him to 200 years behind bars. “Your honor,”... 

A Brooklyn cop responding to a robbery mortally wounded an armed man with a single shot to the chest, police said Friday. Only after Duane Browne died did investigators learn that he had been racing to help his drug-dealing half-brother when he ran into the cops, police said. Browne was apparently unaware that his sibling, Dale Ogarro, had already fled the house through a back door and was talking to officers. And Ogarro didn’t tell the police... 

A billboard on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway between Meeker Ave. and Metropolitan Ave. has collapsed and fallen onto the highway and street below. The billboard fell 200 feet, and is blocking off traffic on the BQE. The National Weather Service had issued a Wind Advisory for the tristate region this morning, with winds hitting up to 45 MPH. We’ll update as we learn more information. Authorities say the billboard, which is 200 x 300 feet, came...