A 15-year-old boy was beaten and stabbed by a large group of teens in Brooklyn yesterday. According to police, the incident occurred around 6:30 p.m. yesterday at a playground on Madison Street, in Bushwick, behind PS 299. The victim and some friends were shooting hoops when a group of 10-20 teens came in with sticks and bottles. "They grabbed him and they pulled him down. They started kicking him and beating him with sticks,” one witness told the News, adding that she was terrified by the ordeal. more ›

Yesterday morning, an argument at a bodega on Humboldt Street became violent when a group of impatient men confronted another group ordering sandwiches. According to the Post, after one man shot Juan Medina, 24, twice in the stomach, his cousin, Lourdes Guillen, 25, begged the shooter, "Put the gun down. Don’t be that person." But Guillen, a staffer at "The View," ended up with a bullet in the stomach. more ›

The firefighter who died fighting a Bushwick warehouse inferno yesterday was a 9/11 responder who leaves behind a wife and two children. Lt. Richard Nappi, a 17-year veteran of the department, is survived by his wife Mary Anne, his 12-year-old daughter, Catherine and his 11-year-old son, Nicholas. Mayor Bloomberg did his best to offer his condolences to Nappi's family last night, and told reporters, "It's very tragic. There's nothing we can ever say. They were in love, lived together, had kids. All of a sudden, he's gone." more ›

[UPDATE BELOW] One firefighter died this afternoon trying to extinguish a fire at 930 Flushing Avenue, where a two story commercial building went up in flames. The firefighter has been identified as Lieutenant Rich Nappi of Engine 237. Five other firefighters were injured—four with minor injuries, and one with serious injuries—that seriously injured FDNY member is now listed in stable condition at Kings County Hospital. more ›

Yesterday, police arrested a suspect in the death of Joshua Basin, who was fatally hit by an L Train after a verbal and physical altercation with a fellow straphanger spilled onto the subway tracks on Friday night. Charges are pending against 33-year-old homeless man Ryan Beauchamp, but one piece of erroneous information has been corrected: cops told the Village Voice that Beauchamp was NOT associated with Occupy Wall Street, despite early reports by the Post. more ›

The suspect in the death of Joshua Basin at the Bedford Avenue L train stop on Friday night has been arrested, sources tell the Daily News. 33-year-old Ryan Beauchamp was allegedly taken into custody on Bushwick Avenue in Bushwick at 2 p.m. today. We called DCPI to confirm the arrest but a police spokesman denied it. "We're just talking to someone," the officer said. more ›

The tap water in a section of Bushwick near the border of Queens is coming out filthy and stinking, as you can see from these disgusting photos and video. A tipster who resides on Linden Street between Myrtle and Wyckoff tells us that as of last night "all the water on my block is running yellowish-brown with little bits of particulate that settle out of it if you let it sit. The water has a metallic, sort of hard smell with a hint of sewer. Apparently it's not just my building, but the whole block. I'm contacting other neighbors in the area to see how big the phenomenon is. Pretty gross!" Gross, indeed: more ›

Thefts surrounding several subway stations in East Williamsburg and Bushwick plummeted last month following a push by the 90th precinct to send more police officers to patrol the area, DNAinfo reports. There were six incidents each of robbery around the perimeter bordering Johnson, Flushing, Bushwick and Morgan avenues: primarily in and around the Morgan L stop and Flushing JMZ stop, in both December 2011 and January 2012. In February, however, no robberies were reported. The last reported incident in the area occurred on the afternoon of January 31st on Morgan Avenue and Thames Street, when a teenager's cell phone was stolen. more ›

The 26-year-old pregnant woman who was shot by her bitter estranged husband near a Brooklyn elementary school on Friday is recovering from the shooting. Daisy Torres told the Daily News she had split up from 62-year-old Juan Torres Collazo months before the attack, and she feared what he was capable of: "When I saw him with the gun, it didn't surprise me," she said. "He had threatened me before. He told me that my daughter was going to be raised without a mother. I lived in fear." more ›

Yesterday, a 26-year-old pregnant woman was shot near a Brooklyn elementary school by her 62-year-old estranged husband. Daisy Torres, believed to be four months pregnant, was shot in the chest by Juan Torres Collazo around 2:15 p.m. Friday afternoon as she was walking toward Public School 384 on Cooper Street in Bushwick to pick up another child. Bystanders swooped in on Torres Collazo before he could fire a second shot: “I went in front of him to wrestle the gun away,” Anastacio Diaz DeLeon told the Daily News. “Me and somebody else held him until police came. He tried to run away but I told him to stop or I was going to shoot him with the gun.” more ›

According to police, a 26-year-old pregnant woman was shot near a Brooklyn elementary school this afternoon-and the News says she was shot by her ex-boyfriend. The shooting happened around 2:15 p.m. at the entrance of PS 384 on Cooper Street in Bushwick, shortly before the end of the school day. Witness Asadullah Mayan told the Post that people at the scene held the gunman for police: “She was alone, picking up her kids—it’s crazy,” said Mayan. more ›

We're getting inundated with sad animals news today. First, the above photo was sent to us by Kendra Srebro, who tells us this iguana was "spotted on Vandervoort Place between Flushing and Thames. Its eyes were closed and it wasn't moving. I was running to get the train to work so I didn't have time to inspect further... I'm worried it is still alive and its consequential low body temperature has just lulled it into sedation." more ›

Beer halls are like the cupcakes and meatballs of drinking establishments: so trendy right now! And soon a new one will be coming to Bushwick, housed inside the 4,000-square-foot Danbro Studios building, and sporting an 11,000-square-foot outdoor garden—making it the city's biggest beer garden to date. 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 ›

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 ›