According to NY1, a man was arrested in the Weeksville section of Brooklyn for allegedly "threaten[ing] two men with a knife and [making] anti-gay comments as they were walking down Utica Avenue between Fulton Street and Atlantic Avenue." The victims found police officers, who arrested Luis Newman for menacing as a hate crime and criminal possession of a weapon. One resident told NY1, "It's got kinda bad around here now you know and it's really bad because you got the school here and then you have a lot of kids who play in this area. There's been so much muggings and killings and people just like losing it." more ›

The body of a three-year-old girl was found in the snow outside her family's home in the Weeksville section of Brooklyn early this morning. According to WABC 7, "Kyrah Martin was found in a snow drift" on Park Place around 1:15 a.m, "face down in the snow in the 20 degree temperatures" and with injuries that looked like she fell. The child was pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital. Cops went door-to-door in the building and found her parents, who apparently didn't realize their daughter wasn't at home. WCBS 2 reports that investigators are determining whether the toddler did fall. more ›

Yes, it seems we're addicted to The City Concealed series produced by Thirteen. The latest segment visits Brooklyn's Weeksville, one of the nation's earliest free African American communities. The Weeksville Heritage Center explains that "the area was named after free African American James [Weeks], who acquired property in the area in 1838, only eleven years after slavery ended in New York State." In 2005 restoration was completed at the Hunerfly Road Houses, the last remaining residence and symbols of the historic community. more ›