East Flatbush

A 6-year-old boy is dead after two cars collided at a Brooklyn intersection, sending one of the vehicles flying into the child and his mother as they stood on a traffic median. Police say Clarantae Turner was killed and his 26-year-old mother badly...

Ever since I spent a year in England as a college student, I dreamed that one day I'd have a garden in the front of my house. I didn't know much about gardens then, but I knew I loved stopping to smell the roses tumbling over the low stone walls and...

Good luck trying to get a straight answer on where Flatbush is. Encompassing 11 neighborhood associations, all of which can claim some stake in this emerging community, the boundaries are amorphous--something in which local civic leaders seem to take...

A 6-year-old boy's attempt to hide burning gift wrap paper from his mother caused the fire in a 25-story Crown Heights high-rise that killed a veteran New York City firefighter, fire officials said Friday. As Lt. John H. Martinson was mourned, the FDNY...

Six years into its existence, the Tribeca Film Festival has gone from being a vehicle for a neighborhood's psychic and economic recovery from 9/11 to an irradiated spring fling so vast in scope that it's spread out far enough from lower Manhattan to...

About 500 people spoke out against police violence in lower Manhattan Wednesday evening. Here's what some of them had to say: Curtis Riley, 46, Jamaica "I thought it was important for him [grandson Shaheem Clark, 7] to see this. I told him that the...

The bridge leading to Mirror Beach, a popular fishing spot known for its placid waters, could have been any ordinary crossing, were it not for the railings ripped from either side. Hundreds of terrorized residents, many of them mothers clutching young...

The families of Sept. 11 made their annual pilgrimage to Ground Zero yesterday, burdened by familiar sorrows and a growing, gnawing anxiety that the world is forgetting them too fast. Sasha Cardona, 15, whose father died in the 2001 attack, felt the...

Q: My friend married an American citizen. They went for an interview with the INS for her to become a U.S. permanent resident. At the interview, my friend was turned down for permanent residency, but they have another appointment. Her husband is very...

1994 Jan. 2: Sworn in as NYC's 107th mayor. Son Andrew, 7, standing alongside Giuliani during inaugural address, mimicks his dad's repeated punchline: "It should be so, and it will be so." Sept. 11: Proposes restricting porn shops to manufacturing...

We see our history in our houses. Many homes of the colonial Long Islanders still exist. With an architecture influenced by the Dutch on the west end and by the English on the East End, these old structures have a story to tell. Here is a sampling of some...

- Columbus Park, Cadman Plaza and Tillary Street, Downtown Brooklyn. A - Charlie's Place, Hopkins to Ellery Streets, Tomkins to Throop avenues, Bedford-Stuyvesant. F - Harmony Park, Troy, Atlantic and Schenectady avenues, Weeksville. A - Nehemiah...