Officers have suspended five-year NYPD veteran Alfonso Mendez after he failed to perform CPR on a dying girl while her mother attempted to bring her to the hospital. Briana Ojeda, 11, had suffered an asthma attack on Friday evening, and her mother crashed her car into a parked car on Henry Street as she attempted to rush Briana to the hospital. Mother Carmen Ojeda says officer Mendez kept her from getting to the hospital and rudely refused to perform CPR on Briana, claiming he didn't know how. more ›

For at least a year now, the First Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn Heights has been giving parishioners parking placards for their cars when parking in the bike lane on Henry Street. The placards explain to police that occupants of the vehicle are conducting "Church Business." One local resident, Peter Kaufman, believes "they have some 'understanding' with the 84th Precinct, whereby if they put a sign in their window that they are attending church, they don't get ticketed." On his blog Ink Lake, Kaufman posted video of this epic bike lane block during last Sunday's service [SPOILER: they're parked along the entire block]: more ›