And this is why the MTA is installing partitions to protect bus drivers. Last night around 6:50 p.m. a B45 bus crashed into scaffolding outside 210 Livingston Street in Downtown Brooklyn. According to the driver he was being assaulted by a passenger at the time, an MTA spokesman says. more ›

The investigation into PS 243 teacher's aide and alleged child pornographer Taleek Brooks continues, and at least one good thing could come of it. Because Brooks was using P2P services to distribute child pornography his computer, which the FBI has in its possession, hopefully will lead to many more arrests. more ›

Since it launched last year the Brooklyn Flea food-only offshoot Smorgasburg has been an unqualified success. But you know what would make it (and most things) better? Local booze. Sadly, however, not everyone in the community agrees and co-founder Eric Demby now needs to scramble for signatures if he wants to have local libations on North Sixth Street by the time the outdoor food fun restarts on April 7. more ›

NBC New York aired an interview that alleged cop killer Lamont Pride gave to police about the fatal shooting of police officer Peter Figoski. Pride says, "The reason I decided to come forward with everything is I need to help myself out of this situation. I’m not gonna get out of it. I know I’m gonna do some type of crime. I’m not trying to do the max." more ›

As the FBI continues to investigate PS 243 Teacher's Aide Taleek Brooks, 41, in regards to charges of both having and producing child pornography, Mayor Bloomberg has responded to the disturbing story with surprising nonchalance considering his normally outspoken views on education. more ›

Anti-Muslim graffiti was found scrawled on the side of a Kensington building Monday, and some local residents are worried the incident will spark racial tensions in the remarkably diverse neighborhood. The graffiti, which was left on the side of TDS Insurance on Beverly Road, declared that "Allah is Shit." The incident is being investigated as a bias crime, and some theorize that the vandalism may be retaliation for a rash of anti-Semitic graffiti left on Jewish homes and establishments in Midwood recently. more ›

Police say they found an infant girl abandoned in a Brooklyn apartment building just after midnight earlier today. The baby, believed to be about six months old, was found in front of a seventh-floor apartment at W. 33rd Street building in the O'Dwyer Houses; near her were a broken cell phone and a mini Vodka bottle. “She was cute. She was dressed in pink. She didn't even have shoes on, just socks," Angel Cruz told the News. more ›

Brooklyn parents are still reeling over the revelation that Taleek Brooks, a teacher's aide at PS 243 (The Weeksville School), had been arrested twice this month for not only having but also producing child pornography—possibly inside the school itself. As the FBI started interviewing people today Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott stopped by for the second time in as many days. more ›

Unable to find lucrative lawyer work, several ingenious graduates of the Brooklyn Law School have simply decided to sue the law school. The Daily News reports that Jesse Strauss, a 2003 Brooklyn Law grad, is representing the four graduates in a lawsuit that accuses the school of misleading them into thinking their law degree would be a guaranteed entrée into the bourgeoisie. more ›

The FBI last night arrested PS 243 teacher's aide Taleek Brooks for the second time this month on child pornography charges. When Brooks was arrested the first time it was simply for having child pornography on his Brooklyn computer. The second arrest was because it appears that Brooks was producing child pornography, too. Did we mention he was making the videos in school? more ›

The Daily News has awful details about the Bedford-Stuyvesant home invasion-turned-sexual assault. According to the News, "When their victim, who was tied in a bedroom, refused the sexual demands, 'the defendant threatened to shoot her,' [Brooklyn ADA Wilfred] Cotto said of the youngest in the crew." And that suspect is 13-years-old. more ›

How many times do we have to tell you? Never take your light saber to a bar. Bad, bad idea. Today's lesson in leaving your light saber at home is courtesy of Flynn Michael, an engineer from Bed-Stuy who is now offering a $100 reward for the return of his saber. According to the Brooklyn Paper, back in September Michael put his custom made $400 light saber "beneath the bar" at Project Parlor, and when he went to grab it a little after 2 a.m., it was missing. more ›

Celebrating the Giants' Super Bowl victory might have meant cheering and high-five-ing folks in Times Square, but when you're in Bay Ridge, it means toilet paper, firecrackers, and standing in front of cars. (Tomorrow's ticker tape parade should be real!) Check out videos of some celebrations in neighborhoods including Bay Ridge, Howard Beach, the Upper East Side and Astoria. more ›

The police say that four teens, including a 13-year-old boy, have been arrested for "a broad-daylight home invasion that degenerated from armed robbery into the sexual assault of a Brooklyn woman for nearly an hour," according to the Post. more ›

Four Occupy Wall Street protesters face felony charges after last week's "Occuparty" in an unfinished condo is Williamsburg. Three men and one woman are charged with riot, assault, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct according to information obtained from the Brooklyn DA's office by the Post. more ›

The Brooklyn Paper has an update about the vandalism at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in Williamsburg. Because a statue of the Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus were defaced with what looks like Kiss masks that Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley wear, 94th Precinct Commanding Officer Deputy Inspector Terence Hurson said, “We are looking for a KISS fan." In other words: TOTALLY Kiss Army. more ›

When a single mother realized she had the winning ticket for a $13.5 million lottery, she just told her diary. Brooklyn resident Sharisee Frails told reporters, "I didn’t tell anybody initially — I simply just wrote it down in my secret diary." more ›

A 47-year-old man was critically injured when he was struck by a driver in Brooklyn last night. The pedestrian was crossing 6th Avenue at 51st Street when a car slammed into him and kept going. And police may have found the car. more ›

Luis "Baby" Ortiz, who is accused of shooting NYPD officer Kevin Brennan in the head Tuesday night at the Bushwick Houses, showed no remorse as he was escorted out of the 90th Precinct station house yesterday afternoon. "Yeah, take a picture of me," Ortiz, 21, told photographers during the perp walk as he smiled, blew kisses to family and friends, and mugged for the cameras. In Spanish, he yelled "I love the Latin Kings," adding, "You know what it is," according to the Daily News. His angry supporters also showed little remorse. more ›

After a police officer was shot in the head in Bushwick last night, hundreds of cops descended on the scene to help track down the suspect. (An arrest was made within a couple of hours.) Meanwhile, the critically injured officer, Kevin Brennan, was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, where surgeons removed the bullet and saved his life. As you can see in that video, it probably didn't hurt his chances of survival that a MASSIVE police motorcade escorted his ambulance through Brooklyn at top speed. We count over 42 NYPD vehicles in all: more ›

"I'm in my 40s, I've lived in Brooklyn for 15 years," the victim in a brutal attack near McCarren Park told us today, "and nothing like this has ever happened to me. I've lived in Williamsburg for probably about ten years total." Last week the man was viciously slashed by a young Hispanic man wielding a broken bottle with such ferocity he had to get 37 stitches and 8 staples to his head. more ›

Today's warm weather has us yearning for the days when we'll be able to shed these sleeved shackles and feel sweet chlorinated bliss on our pasty skin. Global warming schmobal warming. A tweet from the Parks Department showing the bowels of the McCarren Pool made us wonder how its $55 million renovation is coming along two years after Bloomberg broke ground, and the Parks Department forwarded us some evidence of its progress. more ›

Yesterday the Times profiled Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights, the rapidly gentrifying boulevard and the "epicenter of renaissance" previously seen in Park Slope and Williamsburg. Though there are plenty of residents in the historically black and Hasidic neighborhood that welcome the influx of students, young professionals and families, a Crown Heights native and Medgar Evers professor notes,"There's a social cohesion gap right now." And Nick Juravich, a Columbia grad student and Crown Heights blogger, tells us, "There definitely is to certain degrees. But there are also signs that the groups living in the neighborhood are becoming remarkably integrated." more ›

The woman accused of abandoning her two young daughters alongside the busy Shore Parkway in Brooklyn was set up by the girls' abusive father, relatives tell WPIX. "What it all boils down to is the money," says Dalisha Adams's aunt Amy. She says Shawn Cobbs, Adams's estranged boyfriend and father of her daughters, is the one who abandoned the girls, as part of a scheme worked out with their grandmother. Adams's brother Peyisai also maintains that his sister handed the girls off to Cobbs. "I don't know if he walked off and left the kids," says Peyisai. "I really can't answer." more ›