Cops are searching for a man who brazenly robbed a Greenpoint Dunkin' Donuts this week and escaped unscathed, with a pile of cash (though strangely, no crullers). The crime took place on Monday shortly before 9:30 p.m. at the DD on McGuinness Boulevard near the Pulaski Bridge. A man "approached the counter, pulled a black handgun, ordered the cashier to open the register, grabbed an undetermined amount of money from it and fled in a black car," according to police. No one was injured. more ›

A woman is suing the NYPD after her humiliating, misguided arrest for shoplifting at a Queens Rite Aid. As 30-year-old Leah Fishman left the store a year ago, items in her purse that she had purchased weeks earlier for a total of around $20 set off the store's alarm. Fishman tells the Daily News that initially, "When the police came, I was relieved." But her suit alleges that the police did no investigation whatsoever, and mocked her as she was being detained. "Oh look, she has tears," a detective said, according to the lawsuit. "It won't help you; you're still going to jail." more ›

We just can't keep up with fashion, what with the chocolate and jewel-encrusted brassieres that seem to be all the rage these days. Still, these earrings that a reader found at Bejeweled in Greenpoint strike us as a fashion "nein." more ›

If there's anything we learned from American Horror Story, it's that someone else's nightmare may just be your dream come true (actually we're too scared to watch the show—but that house looks really pretty!). After being shuttered for a while following a raid and a liquor license snafu, Coco66 is for rent. About that liquor license—back in July it was noted that the bar's owner, David Kelleran, had been operating without one, and one promoter familiar with the place declared, "They'll never get a liquor license there again. [Kelleran's] family owns the building, so no one is going to buy it from him and get a license. It's majorly screwed, for many years at least." more ›

Gentlemen, put down your razors! (Which you should have been doing for Movember, anyway.) This weekend marks the second annual NYC Beard Competition, sponsored by the Gotham City Beard Alliance. And the competition is looking fierce! more ›

[UPDATE BELOW: The driver's neighbor writes us in his defense.] A delivery worker, described by police as a 41-year-old Asian man, was killed last night in Greenpoint when a driver in a Buick struck him from behind as he waited at a stop sign. The accident occurred around 7 p.m. at the sleepy intersection of Leonard Street and Meserole Avenue, and witness Sheryl Yvette tells us the driver also hit a livery cab minivan at the intersection. In an email, she describes the horrible scene: more ›

The hipster Chukar Partridge trying to score a decent lengua taco in Greenpoint yesterday has been spotted before! more ›

This Saturday, the darkest corners of industrial Brooklyn will be exposed as part of the Nuit Blanche: Bring to Light festival, an all-night arts extravaganza taking over the Greenpoint waterfront. more ›

Get your fill of oysters, sausages and mustachioed homebrewers (amongst other things) all in one place at this weekend's Taste Williamsburg Greenpoint. The event will take place in an empty waterfront lot (how very Williamsburg) this Sunday, and will feature some 45 local restaurants sampling their wares. more ›

This seems a lot more entertaining/dangerous than the Idiotarod. This Saturday the Greenpoint Lions invite you to McGolrick Park for an early morning bathtub race! Their flyer, courtesy of Miss Heather, describes the event: more ›

Two women were busted yesterday for allegedly robbing an ice cream truck in Greenpoint, a bold-faced attack on one of America's most sacred institutions. more ›

Parts of McCarren Park are being overtaken by drunk homeless people who poop in public and scare the neighborhood children—and it's no laughing matter. The Brooklyn Paper today picked up the story that New York Shitty's been covering for months, giving it a glib little treatment pitting "neighborhood nannies" against "liquored-up vagabonds" who stink up the children's playground in the park. But the real issue here goes way beyond just poop, says Heather Letzkus of NY Shitty. more ›

Welcome to our weekly column Staff Picks, in which we ask the staffers at our favorite book, music, and movie stores around to town to share with us what they're reading, listening to, and watching this week. We figure they're good people to ask. Today we're checking in with Ron and Matthew at Greenpoint's Permament Records to find out what they've been spinning lately. more ›

With two suspects still at large in yesterday's brazen Greenpoint jewelry store robbery, police have released this surveillance video from inside the store. The video clearly shows the two suspects bursting into Reggie Sanocki's store yesterday afternoon and making off with a large bag of merchandise. The back of Sanocki's can be seen in the frame at first—until the first man pulls a gun from his waistband, and Sanocki retreats off camera to the back of the store, where he was shot in the stomach. more ›

Police are on the lookout for two thieves who shot a jewelry store owner in Greenpoint during a brazen broad daylight robbery this afternoon. Richard Sanocki has owned Studio Jewelry at 93 Nassau Avenue for 17 years, and he'd just returned from vacation in Poland today. An hour after opening the doors, he was took a bullet to the stomach. more ›

The dark and funky hipster bar and music venue Coco 66 on Greenpoint Avenue was the scene of a dramatic raid last weekend, according to reports on New York Shitty and Paper. It seems owner David Kelleran has been operating without a liquor license, and local police tell New York Shitty that the precinct "did a joint operation Saturday with the State Liquor Authority... The owner was arrested and all the liquor was order destroyed by the SLA." According to one observer, $20,000 worth of precious, life-sustaining liquor was poured down the drain! more ›

Friends and colleagues of the NYPD officer who busted Bronx ADA Jennifer Troiano for DUI last August claim that he was unfairly punished for making the arrest. In January, Elliot Zinstein, one of a handful of Orthodox Jews on the force, was transferred from the 44th precinct in the Bronx to the 94th precinct in Greenpoint because according to his superiors "the neighborhood needed more Jewish cops." more ›

A Brooklyn man currently on trial is accused of robbing his girlfriend's uncle in a terrorizing attack last year. Christopher Carmona allegedly stormed into Julio Boissard's tailor shop in Greenpoint in March 2010, and put a gun to his head while demanding money. But robbery is mere farthings compared to what he did next: Carmona allegedly stomped two of Boissard's pet doves to death. more ›

Workers at a Greenpoint home unearthed parts of a skeleton in the backyard, the Times reports. The owner of 119 Kent St seems particularly nonchalant about human remains being found on his property: "Growing up in New York, not much surprises me. Of course, there's a skull in my backyard." In addition to a skull, police found a few pieces of vertebrae, and teeth. No word on whether a map to One-Eyed Willie's fortune was found along with the bones. more ›

After being found guilty of murder for the second time earlier this month, Vincent Basciano a.k.a. Vinny Gorgeous is now in the midst of the "death penalty" phase of the trial, with prosecutors arguing that Basciano's "rage and desire to be a hoodlum" earn him the fate of being the first inmate to be put to death in New York state since 1954, the Times reports. A jury found that Basciano had killed Randolph Pizzolo as a "hit" to preserve the integrity of the infamous Bonanno crime syndicate. more ›

Residents of a charmingly developed Greenpoint block are up in arms (and disembodied chicken parts) over the poultry slaughterhouse smack-dab in the middle of everything that they claim is dirty, smelly, and loud. The horror! more ›