A 45-year-old man was fatally shot on a subway train in Brooklyn on Sunday evening, the police said, in a violent episode that compounded what has already been a difficult month for New York’s subway system. The victim, Richard Henderson, was just a few stops from his home in Crown Heights shortly after 8 p.m. […]
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Tunnel Under Brooklyn Synagogue Left 2 Buildings Unstable, Officials Say
An illegal tunnel beneath one of the most important religious sites in New York City was about 60 feet long and 8 feet across and was not sufficiently reinforced, compromising the stability of parts of two buildings, city officials said Wednesday. Inspectors from the Department of Buildings ordered the owners of 770 Eastern Parkway in […]
Read MoreSecret Synagogue Tunnel Sets Off Altercation That Leads to 9 Arrests
A decades-old fight about the direction of one of New York’s most prominent Hasidic Jewish groups tipped into chaos this week, when a faction of the group clashed with the police over a tunnel that had secretly been built to the movement’s main synagogue, one of the most significant religious sites in the city. The […]
Read MoreTired of Waiting to Buy, They Redesigned Their Brooklyn Rental
Cristina Casañas-Judd and General Judd thought they would live in the same home in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, for the rest of their lives. After renting the brownstone apartment for more than a decade and raising their two daughters, Najal, now 22, and Rafia, 13, there, the couple had started talking to their landlord about buying […]
Read MoreFor 30 Years, This Grown-Up’s Office Was the Playground
Emmanuel Thingue laughed as he nimbly scampered up the jungle gym to have his photograph taken. At 61, he was the oldest person on the playground equipment at Lincoln Terrace Park in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. Around him, children whooped and romped. But Mr. Thingue, a landscape architect who recently retired from the […]
Read MoreParents of Baby Found Dead in Brooklyn Had History of Abuse
A judge in Brooklyn overruled city concerns that a baby was being abused and allowed her to return to her parents’ care the day before she was fatally injured, according to court papers obtained by The New York Times. Police are investigating the death as a homicide, but have not made any arrests. Ella Vitalis, […]
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