Beautiful lawns, flowering bushes, and planters with lush greenery: This morning, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden announced the winners in its 13th annual Greenest Block in Brooklyn Contest. The residential first place winner was MacDonough Street between Stuyvesant and Lewis Avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant (pictured above) while first place for a business/commercial block was Hoyt Street between Atlantic Avenue & State Street in Boerum Hill (pictured below). MacDonagh Street's Greening Coordinator Wilma Atwell said, "Our hard......

Between the New York Times barbecue cover story last week and the giveaway pulled pork yesterday in Madison Square Park, it would seem as though New York is going all kinds of rubbed and sauce-slathered crazy (don’t forget to free up the second week of June for the mammoth Big Apple Barbecue). While the current media blitz over toasted bones and brash pit masters inevitably continues, Gothamist would like to divert just a little of......

A car driven by either a 16 year old boy or 22 year old man hit a bicyclist on Linden Boulevard near 175th Street in St. Albans Thursday night. The car hit 60 year old bicyclist Frank Simpson around 11:45PM, and then crashed into a telephone pole. The problem is that both claim to be passengers. However, the Post reports, blood on the steering wheel may be able to help the police identify the real......

Ten year old Shamar Porter was biking home from a Little League game when a red van fatally hit him yesterday evening. Porter had been biking near where Williams Avenue meets Linden Boulevard (map)when the car hit him; he was taken to the hospital, but doctors were unable to save him. His team, the Brownsville Rec Center's Athletics, had just advanced to the championship game. The driver, who remained at the scene, was not charged,......

The Daily Politics uploaded video of Assemblywoman Diane Gordon "appearing to solicit a bribe." After compiling evidence that Gordon was asking for bribes from a developer interested in land in the 40th District, the Brooklyn DA's office offered her a deal that would let her off if she quit. But then Gordon announced she was running for reelection. The Brooklyn DA outlines the $500,000 bribe (in the form of a house in Queens) Gordon......

Police now say that the John Jay School of Criminal Justice graduate student was gang-raped before being strangled to death and dumped on a Brooklyn road. The last contact with 24 year old Imette St. Guillen was a call she made to one of her friends at 3AM Saturday morning; 911 received a tip about a body at 8:43PM that night. Police have been retracing St. Guillen's stepsPioneer Bar on Bowery, in order to figure......