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 ›

A police officer was shot in the head around 9 p.m. tonight in Brooklyn, and there's currently a massive police mobilization in search of the shooter. Apparently, two anti-crime police officers saw a man with a gun by the Bushwick Houses; WPIX reports, "They gave chase and followed the suspect into an enclosed area where the man wheeled and fired, striking one of the officers in the head, police said." more ›

Police say that an off-duty police officer fatally shot a man who was trying to mug him at Broadway and Grove Street in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. According to WABC 7, two men approached the cop: "One of the men simulated holding a gun while the other knocked the victim down to the ground with a cane. The detective opened fire on the muggers, hitting the cane-wielding suspect once in the chest." more ›

A Bushwick high school art teacher was fired for allegedly sleeping with a student and plying multiple students with pot and booze off campus. According to the Post, Bushwick Community HS art teacher Giovanna Vasconez was found to have had sex with one student, and "fooled around" with another. She also gave the two students, along with a third, pot and booze. more ›

A seven-year-old boy was killed, and seven others were injured in a three-alarm fire in a Brooklyn apartment building early this morning. The fire broke out at 1:40 a.m. at a 3-story apartment at 1066 Decatur Street and a neighboring building in Bushwick. According to police, Joel Smith, 7, was found unconscious inside and died at the scene: "There was a lot of smoke coming out of the house and then I saw a shirtless man come out of the house with his son in his arms, his son was dead," witness Johnny Pache told the Post. "He was crying a whole bunch. He put his son in a car near-by while the ambulances showed up." more ›

Last week a Chinese deliveryman was shot five times by a perp looking for some free sesame chicken—and survived! On December 15, Jin Jin Chen, 22, was sent by his bosses at King Food Chinese on Graham Avenue to deliver three orders of sesame chicken, some roast pork and a bottle of Sprite to an apartment at the Bushwick Houses. But nobody answered the number he'd been told to call when he got there. That's when he was allegedly attacked by 17-year-old Victor Cubero. more ›

New Yorkers are masters at fitting ten pounds of flour in a five pound bag, and here's the latest example of our ingenuous use of extremely limited space: A driver happens upon a coveted parking spot that's barely inches larger than his vehicle, and he MAKES IT WORK. That's just what we do. The tipster who sent us this video says, "I was leaving for work the other day and noticed a parked car that was boxed in tight. It was gone that night when I came home, but the cars in front and back were still there. Curious, I checked my security camera: more ›

A brazen sausage stealer was interrupted mid-stuff last week at a Bushwick supermarket, thanks to a manager who recognized the thief from two previous meat thefts. Where exactly was he stuffing that salami, you may ask? Why, down his pants, of course! Get your mind out of the gutter. more ›

An unidentified 30-year-old man was killed by a flatbed truck last night while riding his bike in East Williamsburg. According to a spokesman for the FDNY, the accident happened just after midnight, and the first ambulance arrived within three minutes. But the victim was pronounced dead at the accident scene, which is just a couple of blocks from 3rd Ward. more ›

Investigators are focusing on the spurned boyfriend in the murder of 16-year-old Kyanna Thomas, who was stabbed in the throat and left to die on a street corner in Brownsville early Sunday morning. Thomas, who lived in Queens with her mother, a Department of Correction captain, was staying with her aunt on the night of the murder. Her family says she sneaked out to attend a party, and sometime after 3 a.m. she used her cell phone to call 911 as she lay dying in a pool of her own blood. more ›

When plans for the East Village IHOP were announced earlier this summer, we prophesied that it would be the number #1 hottest hang for the hordes of drunken kiddos looking to get a little Rooty Tooty Fresh 'n Fruity. But the chain appears to be taking certain...preventative measures to ensure that won't happen, by hiring a bouncer to patrol the pancakes in the wee hours. Seriously. more ›

9/11 Memorial Museum planners take notice: people get pissed when there is a barrier to peeing. 31-year-old Brooklyn barber Nicholas Curtis learned this lesson after a group of disgruntled, cross-legged revelers from the West Indian Day Parade descended upon his shop. After allowing folks to pee freely all day, they began instituting a $1 fee to use the bathroom after the toilet became clogged, as a "nuisance tax." But it became more of a nuisance for Curtis and friends when a group of women who refused the tax came back with some male muscle. "We're tussling with them. I was just hitting," Curtis tells the Times. But he was actually hitting a woman with a wig: "My hand tangled in her hair and it fell off." more ›

The man who appeared to chuckle with his buddy while recording video of an intoxicated man rolling around on the subway tracks contacted us to expand on what isn't seen in the original videos, which he's since removed from YouTube. (One of the videos lives on because another YouTube user recorded it with his iPod Touch.) Two additional videos were uploaded yesterday showing the documentarian helping an MTA worker get the inebriated victim up onto the platform. (His friend declines to help because of all the blood.) more ›

Yesterday, the police identified the suspect who robbed a 78-year-old woman being pushed in a wheelchair last month. Surveillance videos captured the daytime theft of a purse in Bushwick and the footage aired on TV: According to the Daily News, "Cody Santiago, 18, was sitting on a couch in the living room of his family's Bushwick home Tuesday night when the TV began to broadcast the video of the heartless heist, his family said." His mother even said, "Cody, why did you do that?" and when he denied it, she said, "Yes, that's you, Cody. Don't deny it!" more ›

The NYPD released surveillance footage of a man who grabbed a purse out of the lap of a wheelchair-bound woman last month in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. more ›

With Netflix breaking the back of the working man, and Time Warner content to remain a cold, unkind monopoly, Verizon is attempting to distribute justice/FiOS to the denizens of Flatbush. But what if all those delicious channels and movies came with the price of a 20-foot eyesore that may or may not transform you into a fetus encased in an orb of light? more ›

Say what you will about the perils of gentrification, getting pistol whipped and robbed out of house and home should make one an honorary member of the neighborhood. A group of Brooklyn college students and musicians moved into a cheap apartment on the eastern edge of Bed-Stuy in Brooklyn, and only two weeks later were robbed at gunpoint of thousands of dollars of musical equipment and beaten with a pistol. more ›

This weekend marks the fifth annual Bushwick Open Studios festival, a three-day arts extravaganza that takes over the streets and galleries of Bushwick with gonzo performances, exhibits, and workshops celebrating the many spoils of the Bushwick art scene. And despite the L train being screwed this weekend, it's still worth taking an alternate route out to the neighborhood to catch some of the madness. There are 350 artists participating this year, and here's a small sampling of what you can find at the festival. For a full roster of all events and artists, see here. more ›

A Brooklyn man who had just received his masters degree was murdered in front of his childhood home in Bushwick early Sunday morning. 24-year-old Calvin Louis-Juste, who graduated from Cortland University last fall was "shot in the neck at close range around 1:45 a.m. as he walked from his family's Moffat Street house to meet up with friends," The Daily News reports. more ›

Remember when the McKibben Dorms (er, Lofts) were the place where everybody knew your name? Where you could play experimental 8-bit music until six in the morning while throngs of creatively pierced fellow artists interpretively danced about you with nary a care in the world? Well, those days are drawing to close as a crime wave sweeps the area. more ›