Stories from YourNabe Brooklyn

See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyHe's the Maine suspect.Cops have arrested a man from Maine for the murder of a 14-year-old girl in Flatbush, whose burnt and buried body was found on Brooklyn's southern coast in Gerritsen Beach over four-months ago.Witnesses pointed the finger at Christian Ferdinand, 20, who was picked up by the cops in Limestone, Maine, on May 14 and extradited to the 63rd Precinct station house on May 16...

See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Danielle FurfaroBrooklyn DailyVito Lopez is planning to resign from the state Assembly, but push forward with his run for City Council, a move that some see as the last gasp of a politician in his final throes. According to published reports, Lopez (D-Williamsburg), who has been wracked by a sexual harassment scandal, will resign after the Assembly ends its session on June 20th and focus on his run for the 34th District council seat...

See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Natalie MusumeciBrooklyn DailyBrooklyn firefighters are getting ready to bring on the heat. Culinary-inclined smoke-eaters from two Red Hook firehouses will square off against each other at a chili cook-off this weekend at the Carroll Gardens Greenmarket. Firefighters representing the "Happy Hookers" of Engine 279 and Ladder 131 on Lorraine Street and the "Red Hook Raiders" of Engine 202 and Ladder 101 on Richards Street will whip up their best pots of chili using ingredients from the neighborhood farmers market at the fiery competition...

See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Will LevittBrooklyn DailyIt is, amazingly, a chicken salad sandwich to brag about.When one of the most standard of standard sandwiches fails, it recalls soggy lunchbox meals of mayonnaise-drenched chicken salad from the supermarket. When it succeeds, it forms a light, cool and creamy sandwich, an impeccable lunch, meat and condiment together as one...

See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Carmine Santa MariaBrooklyn DailyI'm madder than Luke Skywalker when he found out that his father was, in fact, the evil Darth Vader over the fact that newspapers today reek of horror, disasters, and unbelievable tales of man's inhumanity toward his fellow man, with nary a mention of the simple kindnesses that good neighbors do day in and day out in real life...

See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Samantha LimBrooklyn DailyThese artists are very good with money. A new art exhibit called "Money" is showcasing a variety of works by twelve local and international artists featuring their interpretations of currency - such as buttons instead of coins, illustrated bills worth only as much as they're beautiful, and coded money that visitors can scan with their smart phones...

See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyThe only locally sourced product you'll get at this co-op is a spring-steel knife to the gut.When someone says the word "co-op," most people think of a food co-op, or an apartment building managed by a disgruntled board of heavy-handed tyrants, but one Brooklyn cooperative, which splits its time between the Brooklyn Lyceum and Washington Park, is dedicated to providing its members with something else entirely - battle...

See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Shavana AbruzzoBrooklyn Daily"Greg, Greg, the consulate's under attack!"Mere words cannot describe the horror that surely metastasized like a tumor on speed for Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, as he informed mission official Gregory Hicks by phone that dozens of heavily armed militants had surrounded the U...

See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Jaime LutzBrooklyn Daily"Hey! I'm talkin' here!"The New York City accent is a well known cliche from such films as "Midnight Cowboy," but in a new documentary called "If These Knishes Could Talk: The Story of the New York Accent," the reality of the famous speech of wiseguys, neurotic comedians, and tough-talking broads often labeled "Brooklyn" is much more complicated...

See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Will BreddermanBrooklyn DailyHizzoner hopeful Sal Albanese says mayoral rival Council Speaker Christine Quinn's bill to create an inspector general for the NYPD is a cop out.Former Bay Ridge city councilman Sal Albanese argues that Quinn's plan to create a new position to monitor unlawful activity by the police is unnecessary, expensive, and undemocratic...

See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyYou might want to leave the family at home the next time you catch a flick in Sheepshead Bay.The UA Sheepshead Bay Stadium 14 and IMAX on Shore Parkway has raised its ticket price to an astronomical $14, or $6.06 higher than 2012's national average, making it one of Brooklyn's most expensive theaters...

See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyThere's treasure, there are treasure troves, and then there are senior centers.Sometimes opportunity beckons from the most unlikely places. Where some might see only a collection of codgers living out their twilight years, a documentary filmmaker looked at a Midwood senior center and saw a treasure trove of Brooklyn lore waiting to be discovered...

See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyBay RidgeDing dong, wedding bells are chiming, and Standing O wishes a very merry matrimonial wish to our very own Assignment Editor Courtney Donahue-Taleporos. She and beau Doron Taleporos tied the knot, broke the glass, and said "I do, I do" on April 20 at the Hilton Boston Back Bay with family and friends at a fancy frolic...

Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyBrownsvilleThis plaudit goes out as freely as eggs over easy to Jacquernst Filias and Lovell Jones. The fifth graders from the Police Athletic League's Brownsville Beacon Center scrambled the competition at the annual Tournament of Champions held in Queens...

See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyBensonhurstLa famiglia honors MomA very happy Mother's Day shout-out to Sharon Santa Maria, mother-in-law Irene, and Big Screecher daughter Dana, from the Big Screecher himself, Carmine Santa Maria. Madder-than-ever Carmine celebrated Mom's Day with the best women in his life, along with the younger set - granddaughters Alexa and Vanessa...

See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joseph StaszewskiBrooklyn DailyThe Fontbonne Hall softball team is closing in on history. The Bonnies have won the Brooklyn-Queens regular season title, and now are the favorite to win the school's first diocesan crown. If they complete the feat they would reach the school's first final since 1999, and become the first Brooklyn team to win it all since Bishop Kearney beat Mary Louis in 2001...

See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyDeutsch has made his mark.At the end of the previous campaign filing deadline in March, when the Council candidates counted their contributions - and spectators ranked the contenders on a dollar-by-dollar basis, Chaim Deutsch hadn't even registered as a candidate...

Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn DailyTwo things were certain no matter who you asked at the Brooklyn Republican Party's Abraham Lincoln Dinner at El Caribe in Mill Basin Thursday night: the food was great and John Catsimatidis will be the next mayor of New York City...

See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Natalie MusumeciBrooklyn DailyA teenage straphanger was hit by a train inside the Atlantic Avenue terminal early Wednesday, authorities said. The 19-year-old boy was standing on the platform at the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center stop just before he was struck by a Manhattan-bound Q train at 5:50 am, an NYPD spokesman said...

Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Will BreddermanBrooklyn DailyThe long-closed bathrooms in Dyker Beach Park near Bay Eighth Street have residents and Community Board 10 getting antsy - and the city says what's going on inside the locked-up loos isn't pretty...