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Speaking of things waiters should "never" do, here's something a diner should never do: throw your food at the server and threaten to kill him or her. On Wednesday night one Steven Scott, 40, was arrested for assaulting a server at the New York Fried Chicken Diner on Fulton Street in East New York. Hapless waiter Baljit Singh says it all started when Scott came in at 11:30 p.m. and ordered mashed potatoes. After a couple bites, Scott "started griping about the nasty tasting food." So he was given a new serving of potatoes, but this didn't satisfy him either. Oh, no it did not.

Move over, Steve Wilkos. Brooklyn-boy-made-good Michael Mazzariello is the newest addition to in-your-face daytime TV with the recently premiered . East New York native "Judge Mazz," the former chief prosecutor for the Board of Ed, takes cases right at the scene of the crime, including within the five boroughs.

A 24-year-old man, who was two weeks away from moving out of his East New York housing projects, was gunned down in front of his home yesterday. Robert Castro was fatally shot just after midnight Saturday at East New York's Boulevard Houses with no clear motive and no arrests yet made. Castro was preparing to marry his long-term girlfriend and mother of his two young children. A recently laid off janitor with a previous record for drug and weapon possession was called "the greatest father ever" by Shamica Mercato, his girlfriend of ten years.

Just before the end of the day school bell at a Brownsville middle school yesterday, shots rang out in front of PS 189 when a woman driving by was shot in the face and nearly crashed into the school. The 24-year-old woman is in critical condition at Brookdale Hospital after being ambushed and shot six times by the shooter waiting for her outside the school around 2:30 p.m. Sparkle Jones, a woman who was near the intersection of E 96th Street and East New York Avenue to witness the shooting, told the News, "I heard shots, and the car hit the pole. The blood ran down her face."

An East New York mugging case that was a step away from a verdict had to be tossed when someone inside the Brooklyn courthouse recognized the jury's foreman and the defendant as old friends. The 20-year-old foreman, Rashawn Davis, apparently known as "Black," never revealed that he used to hang out with Corey Hinds, who goes as "Big Man." The Post says Davis goes by "Raymond Williams" and now may face perjury charges.

A teenager in Brooklyn was gunned down while walking home from a party just after midnight last night. 15-year-old Craig Shelton was preparing to be a sophomore at Metropolitan High School and recently learned he was expecting his first child with 17-year-old girlfriend Tania Moore. Friends say Shelton was not feeling well when he left the East New York party around midnight and was shot multiple times across the street on Euclid Avenue. Shelton was pronounced dead at the scene of the shooting; police did not offer any motive or say that they had any suspects. His grandmother said, "He was a good boy. He never got into any trouble." And the four-months pregnant Moore told the News, "I don't know what I'll ever say when the time comes, when our baby asks where their daddy is."

One man was killed and several injured in two separate shootings that occurred on the same block in East New York yesterday. 21-year-old Donovan Glen died after being shot in the head when some unwanted guests crashed a Friday night party on Atkins Avenue. Glen had an 18-month old daughter and was described by friends as someone who spent most of his time "at home, not on the street." 21-year-old Kendall Jones was also injured in the shooting at 2 a.m. Saturday. Ray Kelly told reporters, "It was a birthday party and going back to college party, and people tried to crash the party and that's where the trouble started." Then yesterday afternoon just down the block on Atkins, three more men were shot. All were injured with non-life threatening injuries and treated at Brookdale Hospital. A neighbor told the Daily News, "I think it was retaliation, but I don't know. It's like gunshot avenue over here."

The Times recently rode shotgun with some S.U.V. clubs in NYC. Yes, S.U.V. clubs—apparently they're a thing, and there are dozens of them in the boroughs, where working class S.U.V. owners bond over their gas guzzling status symbols. They also do a lot of community service, organizing charity events and family-oriented block parties. Strawberry, a member of the Trucked Out Divas, says she'll never forget the day she spotted a line of trucks emblazoned with the logo of Big Boyz, Brooklyn’s first S.U.V. club: "One day, I’m going to be Big Girl. And now look at me! Now, they get out of my way." According to the eye-opening profile, their message to youths is this: "You can drive an enormous customized S.U.V. with a posse of tough-looking comrades and project power and wealth without being a drug dealer." And burn excessive amounts of gas at the same time! Asked about rising fuel costs and that inconvenient global warming situation, Scott Killiebrand, the vice president of the Escalade Krown Holdaz, declares, "I don't care how high gas prices go. I'm always going to buy an Escalade." And, after the jump, see an amazing video of an Escalade Krown Holdaz vehicle.

An employee at the Target in East New York is accused of conspiring with her boyfriend to set fire to the store as a diversion while they stole $8,000 worth of flat-screen televisions. And they would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for those meddling surveillance cameras! The FDNY says video depicts Jared Devonis, who was fired from Target two weeks ago, using a lighter to start a fire in the paper towel aisle.

East New York bodega clerk Salah Ahmed could face 25 years in prison for hitting Bunkless Bovian (who was 14 at the time) in the head with a hammer during a fight in his store last April. But Monday's testimony from Bovian's 16-year-old friend Joshua Bloomfield may bolster Ahmed's self-defense plea, because the teen admitted to helping spark the melee that left his friend in a coma.

The city's Department of Environmental Protection dispatched a Hazmat unit to an elementary school in East New York after unidentified students sprinkled novelty itching powder on at least two teachers' chairs. Some students were also affected; everyone who reported itching had to take decontamination showers, and the two teachers were taken to the hospital as a precaution. One victim tells the Daily News, "When I sat down, I could feel it through my pants. It was very itchy. It got intense. When it became uncontrollable, I had to stop what I was doing... It stopped me in my tracks." Mission accomplished from the pranksters' point of view, but one teacher isn't savoring the gag: "Somebody could have killed me. I feel it personally, because I have so many allergies." And a fifth grader reports, "My friend Emiliano was itching a lot. He felt bad. He scratched and scratched. I was glad I did not get any on me." The powder, which looked like tiny, prickly hairs, was deemed nonhazardous by the DEP, but a potentially devastating Whoopee Cushion explosion is still under investigation.

A third-grader was given a superintendent's suspension today after bringing a knife into his East New York elementary school. The child was reprimanded after stashing the knife in a bathroom and telling classmates, who then told staff members. According to the News, parents claim that children at PS 345 "have created problems in the bathrooms, lunchroom and gym class, where students have jumped onto tables and thrown food or punches without consequences." Parents blame the principal for "keeping everything under the table," with one mother saying, "She's really failed us. I don't see her interact with the kids. She doesn't get involved with the parents." Even a teacher added, "It's not only safety. We're dealing with educational neglect." The Department of Education defended the Brooklyn principal, both in her handling of the incident as well as having no record of excessive discipline problems at the school.

After believing that 16-year-old Tiana Rice of the Bronx was still missing for a month after police had found her body, her family has now learned that the details of the teenager's death were more gruesome than they could have imagined. A medical examiner's report determined that Rice was murdered while being raped inside a Brooklyn apartment that is known for its "drug-fueled parties."

This land is your land, this land is...well, it's The Man's land. One budding entrepreneur in Brooklyn learned that the hard way yesterday as his nearly decade-long scam came to an end. WNBC reports that Darren Miller has been using four acres of city property in East New York as a parking lot which he charged customers $200/month to use. "Hundreds of tractor-trailers and other vehicles were ordered removed Tuesday when police moved in to shut the site down." Miller was arrested and charged with trespassing for refusing to close the lot, but his lawyer contends that this "small businessman" should own the property by now under "adverse possession," something he's been fighting in court since 2005. Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes will be holding a news conference today, as Miller is arraigned in criminal court. Fox News has more on the bizarre case.

the church and sell it to a developer. How could this happen? Well, the City Register doesn't check deeds for authenticity, enabling many scammers to attempt steal property.

For decades, residents of low-income neighborhoods under-served by supermarket chains have been getting their hands on produce the old fashioned way: By growing it in their own gardens. In recent years, outer-borough farmers have taken urban agriculture a step further by selling their mostly organic haul at well-organized community markets.

At an East New York construction site, a neighboring building's wall partially collapsed, killing one of the workers yesterday morning. The construction site was for a commercial building at 791 Glenmore Avenue, the neighboring building was a residence at 795 Glenmore.

The area of Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue that stretches through the East New York/Stuyvesant Heights area isn’t exactly a culinary destination, but what it does have is the Carolina Country Store, a one of a kind grocery that has been covered here before. The tiny storefront is also favored by chefs like Zak Pelaccio, primarily because it specializes in southern style ham and cured meats that are hard to find elsewhere in the five boroughs.

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a bank robbery on Amboy Rd. in Staten Island, another bank robbery on 5th Ave. in Manhattan, and a scaffolding collapse on Grand Concourse and 149th St. in the Bronx.
• A building slated for destruction on Governors Island will become a lab for the FDNY to examine the dynamics of high-rise fires and how best to defeat them. Fire crews from cities around the country will be on hand to observe.
• Someone crunched the numbers and found that The New York Times Fashion Magazine is almost as white as the arctic in February, pre-global warming. The 55% of New Yorkers who aren't white are probably not the targeted demographic the Times Fashion Mag is looking for anyway.
• A New York Presbyterian Hospital official in charge of the Women, Infants, and Children program--which was designed to provide food for impoverished women and children--is accused of siphoning off a few hundred thousand dollars for vacations and comfortable living.
• City Councilman Eric Gioia is running a "carbon neutral" campaign for public advocate, that involves the use of more emails than flyers, the purchase of carbon offsets, and the use of hybrid vehicles.
• The International House of Pancakes downtown Brooklyn location is doing so well that plans are in the works for locations in Bed-Stuy, East New York, and Williamsburg.
• The family of a 25-year-old, who allegedly had his jaw broken by an EMT, is suing the city for $2 million. They accuse the EMT of punching the young man in the face after the patient accidentally drooled on him as he was giving him oxygen.
• Summertime probably seems far off today, but the organizers of the Movies With a View program are looking for submissions of short films to be shown before features in July and August amidst the moonlit shadows of the Brooklyn Bridge.

According to new NYPD statistics, graffiti complaints in Brooklyn rose 96% last year, with arrests in the borough increasing by 33%. Citywide, complaints almost doubled from 4,886 in 2006 to 8,866 in 2007, and total arrests rose from 2,962 to 3,786. Williamsburg leads the tagging trend with a total of 186 complaints.

Police officials announced that the man killed by plainclothes narcotics officers in Brooklyn Sunday night had been on the FBI's Most Wanted list. Darin Richardson had shot and wounded a Cobb County, Georgia police officer in 2005 and had been on the run the past two-plus years.

Last night, the police announced that plainclothes police officers had shot and killed a man in East New York. The Brooklyn North officerswere conducting a "buy-and-bust" drug sweep at the time.

Separate incidents on Christmas Eve leading into Christmas Day across the city have resulted in five murders and six injuries.

The intersection of Liberty Avenue and Crescent Street in Brooklyn was the scene of two separate incidents of pedestrians being hit by vehicles. According ot the Daily News, the first incident occurred by 12:30PM, when an elderly woman was hit at the East New York intersection. Then at around 2PM, a girl was hit by a cement truck. What are the odds of two people being hit at the same place within 90 minutes? A...

The police shot and killed a mentally ill man accused of slashing his roommate's throat yesterday morning in the East New York section of Brooklyn. This comes six days after the police fatally shot a mentally ill Brooklyn teen. Michael Angel Torres told police that his roommate David Kostovski slashed him with a knife while he was sleeping. The police found Kostovski a few blocks from his Autumn Avenue apartment and saw him holding a...

While the police don't recommend that store owners lash out at armed robbers, but that didn't stop one East New York bodega owner. WABC 7 reports that when a robber with a gun entered a bodega on Sutter Avenue last night, the workers beat him with a baseball bat.

Coming up next Monday is a benefit event celebrating East New York Farms, an organization that seeks to remedy the dearth of good nutritional choices in the Brooklyn neighborhood by growing and distributing its own food, along the way inviting a wealth of community participation. “Our first season was one gardener out on the sidewalk with a table,” says Sarita Daftary, Project Director of East New York Farms! (the exclamation mark goes with the...

Yay! It's that time of year when the Straphangers Campaign announces the winner of the annual Pokey Award for the slowest city bus service. And this year, there's a new award: The Schleppie, for least reliable service.

FR.OG and P*Ong, two perfectly good Manhattan restaurants that opened earlier this year, have names that independently invoke two classic arcade video games, Frogger and Pong. Now, as the fall openings season draws to a close and the votes for worst new restaurant name have been cast, we’d like to draw your attention to the most incredibly iconic new restaurant name in New York: It's that of Roclantic Eatery, a soul food and oil drum “Bar-B-Que” place that opened just two weeks ago on the corner of Atlantic and Rockaway Avenue in East New York, coincidentally enough. Kind of rolls off the tongue. With a purple-painted exterior and booming, shadowed, all-caps signage, Roclantic’s owners have come up with a restaurant name so unique that as of right now, it doesn’t even return a single Google hit.

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a double stabbing at 14-19 31 Drive in Queens, a double shooting at 138th St. and 59th Ave. in Queens, and a commercial robbery on East 12th St. between 3rd and 4th Aves. in Manhattan. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is committing millions of dollars to residents of the South Bronx, pleasing some, rankling others, and infuriating the Mayor of Caracas, which is Venezuela's desperately poor capital. Marilyn Kaytor, who...