Neighbors say the Brooklyn woman who was arrested for abandoning her two young daughters alongside the Shore Parkway has a history of verbally berating her children with violent and vulgar invective. After she turned herself over to police last night just before midnight, reporters descended on Dalisha Adams's Brooklyn home and started knocking on doors near her residence. “She was always yelling at the kids, ‘Shut the f--- up,’" one neighbor tells the Daily News. "One day, I heard her curse out the little baby, ‘I’ll punch you in the f------ face.’" more ›

[UPDATE BELOW] Two little girls, ages 5 and 3, were found wandering on the edge of the busy Shore Parkway in Canarsie yesterday, clutching extra diapers given to them by their mother before she abandoned them. In a particularly heartbreaking exclusive, the Daily News reports that an elderly couple noticed the girls playing on the sidewalk without supervision in front of the Bay View Houses on Shore Parkway. "They were wandering up and down the sidewalk for a while, just playing by themselves," says one witness. "It’s horrible. How could you leave your own children out there? They’re babies and you just leave them out there like that?" more ›

A 61-year-old man was arrested for shooting his 43-year-old stepson in a Canarsie apartment last night. According to the Daily News, "Osvaldo Vasquez was mortally wounded in his sixth-floor apartment at the Breukelen Houses in Canarsie by a single blast to the chest just after 6 p.m." more ›

A teen basketball player was killed, and two other teens were injured when a gunman opened fire in Canarsie just after 3 p.m. yesterday, blocks away from their high school. Shaquille Jones, 17, died from a shot to the head; a 16-year-old and 19-year-old were wounded and taken to Brookdale Hospital where they are listed in stable condition. “This is a tragedy. This is not the type of kid to get shot,” classmate Jason Johnson said about Jones, who he called "a good kid." more ›

"They are known to each other. It's an ongoing beef and it's back and forth," a police source tells the News. "The dispute may have erupted over borrowed items." Indeed, Daley's family insist he was wrongly blamed for returning a barbecue to a neighbor without cleaning it. "This had nothing to do with Michael," one relative tells the News. "Michael did not borrow the grill. They blame him because it was at his house." more ›

A Canarsie man admitted to beating his stepdaughter to death in broad daylight on the front porch of his home yesterday after she accused him of sexually abusing her. The Daily News has published graphic photographs of the crime scene, showing the front porch stained with blood and the bare foot of 18-year-old Lakeshia Seymour dangling over the edge. Her stepfather, Jean Simon, 54, was apprehended hours after allegedly attacking the teen with a hammer and bashing her head against the concrete banister outside the East 102nd Street home. more ›

With the hustle of everyday life here, it's easy to forget that New York is surrounded by water—water that's prime for kayaking, canoeing, and even sailing. That's where the Sebago Canoe Club comes in. Located in Canarsie, this nonprofit boating organization helps New Yorkers discover (or rediscover) the beauty of our natural surroundings, with beginner-level trips launching out of Jamaica Bay, part of the National Wildlife Refuge. We spoke to Canoe Club Commodore (more on what that means later) Tony Pignatello about the organization and how you can escape the city without ever leaving. more ›

Are public schools secretly trying out a new form of corporal punishment? Or is it really just bad luck that, in separate incidents in Queens and Brooklyn this week, two young students severed their fingertips in doors at school? And that both schools initially lost the tips, ensuring that they couldn't be reattached? more ›

It takes the patience of a saint sometimes to ride the MTA's buses, and not all New Yorkers are saints. Take, for instance, Coney Island's Alicea Diaz, a 25-year-old waitress who's charged with assault, menacing, harassment and criminal mischief for a fight that broke out between her and the driver of the B82 Limited, which runs between Coney Island and Canarsie. Diaz and the driver, 60-year-old Jacqueline Benjamin, have different accounts of what sparked the altercation, but Diaz says one thing can't be disputed: Benjamin "drives slow on purpose." more ›

You could buy a whole new house for the amount of money one Brooklyn family spent on Christmas decorations. According to the Daily News, the Seddio family in Canarsie has been brightening up the neighborhood with their annual display since 1963. They're giving Clark Griswold a little competition, with 250,000 lights, dancing reindeer, elves and talking Santas; this year they added a wreath with 11,000 lights to the roof of the house. Think you can see it from space? more ›

It's hard out there for a Principal these days. Yesterday a middle school Principal in Orange County was placed on administrative leave after he went the extra mile to invade the home of two students he suspected of playing hooky. And today a Brooklyn elementary school principal has been relieved of duty because he disciplined a student who laughed. Laughing will NOT BE TOLERATED—the Chinese and Indians lead the world in education; do you ever see them even crack a smile? We're sure Principal Jonathan Straughn, of PS 276 in Canarsie, just wanted his students to stay competitive in the global marketplace. Granted, he may have gone a little overboard. more ›

A 60-year-old plumbing business owner was shot dead in his Canarise home at East 86th Street and Avenue K after 1 a.m. today. Stevenson Blackett's body was found tied up in the basement; he had been sleeping there while his wife, three grandchildren, and father-in-law were sleeping on another level. The Daily News reports the killers "broke through the screen on a side door and took advantage of the victim's habit of leaving his keys in the lock of the second door to gain entry to the home... It wasn't clear if the men stole anything." His daughter added that her mother "saw the two guys trying to get out through the front door. That door sticks, so she saw the guys and they saw her. She's scared to death now." more ›

Earlier this morning, a city bus collided with a car at the intersection of Remsen Avenue and Avenue K in Canarsie. Six people were injured, with three going to Brookdale Hospital. And while MyFoxNY says that the bus collided with a car, WCBS 2 reports, "The accident occurred at the intersection of Avenue K and Remsen Avenue where an MTA bus struck a pedestrian crossing sign." more ›

The NYPD is getting an early start cracking down on this summer's loudest parties, reports the Post. Canarsie's 69th precinct has already sent out emails to residents, asking them to report any "flyers for house parties or backyard parties in our neighborhood." The email is part of a larger initiative of cops trying to narrow in on drug use and stolen cars. more ›

It's Census time, and come March, the US Postal Service will flood the streets with all the tools you need to get your census on before Census Day on April 1st (April fools!?). Those poor souls who forget, refuse, or are unable to fill out the proper forms will then have to answer to the army of enumerators who will go door to door kicking ass, and taking names. Mostly taking names though. And this time around, the Census Bureau is looking at you, Canarsie. more ›

This is just sad. The Bronx neighborhoods of Morrisania, Mott Haven and Bedford Park have a larger percentage of households suffering from hunger than any other urban area in the nation, according to a new study [PDF]. Researchers also determined that a swath of Brooklyn consisting of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville, Canarsie and East New York has the country's sixth highest rate of hunger. more ›

The man whom cops allegedly sodomized in a Brooklyn subway station last October says police are still on his tail. 24-year-old Michael Mineo claims he was innocently relaxing on a bench in a Canarsie playground Monday night when two squad cars arrived and arrested him. "I wasn't doing nothing," Mineo tells the Daily News. "I was just sitting on the park bench talking to a friend. They knew who I was. Of course they did." Mineo is suing the city for $220 million over the alleged sodomy, and three officers are under indictment. But the cops who arrested Mineo Monday are from a different precinct, and police spokesman Paul Brown insists that they only arrested Mineo after he refused to leave and they discovered a warrant for his arrest. Mineo's lawyer Stephen Jackson says the warrant popped because Mineo mixed up the dates on a court appearance last week and failed to certify completion of community service for a prior assault arrest. Jackson agrees that cops are targeting Mineo, telling the News, "Of course they knew who he was. I think two squad cars shows premeditation." more ›

Police have charged a Maryland man for the murder of his wife after he had claimed that the two of them were carjacked while driving home from Brooklyn along the NJ Turnpike. 26-year-old Serika Dunkley Holness was found in the couple's blue Honda Accord along the side of the road in Crumpton, MD with stab wounds and fractured ribs yesterday morning. 28-year-old Ryan Holness told police that a masked assailant carjacked the couple at a gas station along the Turnpike and had them drive him to Marlyand, where the supposed attacker bound him in duct tape and left him on the side of the road. A man who eventually helped him and called police said that Holness did not know how he got to Maryland and the carjacker had hit him in the groin. The couple, who were married in Jamaica two years ago, had a home in Brooklyn as well as in Maryland and were returning from a visit with Serika Holness's aunt in Canarsie. more ›

Yesterday's shooting by NYPD officers of a woman who was repeatedly stabbing a cop with a 12-inch knife could have been prevented if a Taser could have been used at the scene of the incident. But the dangerous conditions of the woman's Canarsie apartment that police entered into wouldn't allow it. more ›

A decorated EMT is being investigated for allegedly shooting several subordinates "for fun" with a BB gun in their Canarsie headquarters. A source tells the Post that Lt. Leonard Tiberi (pictured), an EMT since 1996, was fond of bringing his BB gun to work and shooting at soda bottles. But his superiors weren't too keen on Tiberi's trigger happiness, and he was ordered to leave the gun at home. Nevertheless, he packed heat again one night this month, allegedly choosing targets other than soda bottles, which, to be fair, can get pretty boring targets. The Post's source says, "That night, he took it a step further and shot at the employees a couple of times each as a joke." What a cut-up, that Tiberi! It's all fun and games until you shoot your coworker's eye out, but maybe he didn't see the harm of a little gunplay because his coworkers are all medics. Complicating matters, however, is that everyone Tiberi allegedly shot at were minorities, according to the unidentified source. more ›

Much like the tragic story that had just been seen on screen, an afterparty for the opening night of Notorious turned violent Friday when four men were stabbed inside a Brooklyn nightclub. A chaotic scene emerged as one clubgoer described it, "I didn't know what happened, but whenever people start screaming and running out of a club it means someone either has a gun or a knife, and I wasn't going to stick around to find out which it was." more ›

In a post yesterday about TONY's Essential New York Food Quiz, The Feedbag objects to the description of knish-maker Yonah Schimmel as a "potato-pie pro," wondering: "Are TONY readers really that estranged from their own city that they don't know what a knish is?" more ›