Residents and community leaders in Bensonhurst say their concerns about a proposed homeless shelter on 86th Street are still not being heard by City Hall, even as construction is expected to begin ...

A terrifying scene unfolded in a Bensonhurst home Sunday morning, where police say four young sisters were attacked by their uncle —and it was an 11-year-old girl who called 911 and helped save their ...

The New York Attorney General's Office is suing the Puppy Boutique in Bensonhurst for the alleged illegal sale of dogs. News 12 has previously reported that people claim that the Puppy Boutique has ...

The 440,000-square-foot space at Downtown Brooklyn’s 422 Fulton Street — the largest block of retail space currently available in New York City and the former site of a Macy’s department store — will ...

October 17 - Mets franchise formally awarded by NL to group headed by Mrs. Joan Payson. March 6 - The New York Metropolitan Baseball Club Inc., formally receives a certificate of membership from ...

After more than 20 years serving seniors in southern Brooklyn, the Ocean Parkway Older Adult Center is gone. The city-funded senior center served its last meal Friday, June 26 and laid off most of its ...

In the 1960s, AP Wirephotos became a vital chronicler of a decade defined by seismic cultural shifts. As the civil rights movement gained momentum, AP photographers captured defining moments such as ...

There was a major shift in the 1960s from the full skirts and tradwife aesthetic at the beginning of the decade to the miniskirts and hippie counterculture at the end. Similarly, the baby naming ...

The United Nations General Assembly requests that delegates limit their addresses to 15 minutes. On 26 September 1960, Fidel Castro of Cuba remained on the rostrum for 269 minutes, making his address ...