Brooklyn Man's Bird Cage Collection Ruffling Feathers
Residents in Brooklyn are raising a stink – or maybe a squawk – over a quirky collector who lives on their street. His house is surrounded by countless bird cages they call an eyesore.
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Residents in Brooklyn are raising a stink – or maybe a squawk – over a quirky collector who lives on their street. His house is surrounded by countless bird cages they call an eyesore.
Cyclist safety watchdogs are applauding the news as officers throughout Brooklyn are under orders to ticket bike riders riding on sidewalks, running red lights and riding in opposite direction traffic.
Communication is supposed to be a two-way street, but some residents in a Brooklyn neighborhood say they've hit a dead end with the Department of Transportation on traffic alterations.
For subway riders who normally enter at the 15th Street station in Brooklyn, Friday's snow was a good thing. The snow delayed the start of the $260 million rehab of the Culver Viaduct. Instead of starting on Monday, the construction is being pushed back one week.
Snow isn't the only neighborhood nuisance many residents want removed from a street in Brooklyn. They want the City to jackhammer newly installed traffic islands they say are wreaking traffic havoc.
Detectives said the boy's 13-year old sister was pushing him in the stroller just before 6 p.m. Tuesday.
Councilman David Greenfield called the incident at Washington Cemetery "shocking" and said it proved the Sanitation Department cannot service the living and had no respect for the dead.
The suspect was described as a white male, approximately 6' to 6'2"' tall, about 35-years-old and around 200 lbs.
A livery cab driver was charged Sunday night after a horrific crash in Brooklthat left a baby boy fighting for his life, and the child's twin brother and mother seriously injured.
The big dig was still underway Saturday, with the City's bravest manning shovels instead of hoses.
It's been five days since the blizzard dumped nearly 20 inches of snow in and around New York City and the effects are still being seen across the five boroughs.
Bloomberg called the slow response to clearing snow from city streets "unacceptable." He said he doesn't believe the Sanitation Department dragged out the plowing process, but will launch an investigation.
The Big Apple's top cop was caught in a frightening three-car crash in Brooklyn Wednesday night.
Four other people suffered minor injuries in the blaze at the two-story house in the borough's Mill Basin neighborhood.
Streets remain in the city's outer boroughs that still haven't been plowed three days after the tri-state was blasted with a weekend blizzard, and Mayor Bloomberg is admitting the city messed up.
Fire officials said the blaze began in the back of the first floor apartment just before 6 a.m. on East 57th Street. There were no smoke alarms and officials said the outer and inner doors were double locked.
O'Daly's husband, Jim Leonhardt, described her ordeal, saying she spent the hours after her fall lying on her floor, pale-faced and screaming in agony whenever anyone tried to move her leg or adjust a pillow.
Authorities say a roof has collapsed on a warehouse in Brooklyn. There are no reports of injuries.
Sheikh Hoque, 29, was facing assault, and grand larceny charges among others. Police said he drove off in the cab but didn't get far.
More than 400 volunteers came to the Park Slope Armory in Brooklyn to server over 2,000 New Yorkers a hot meal on Christmas day.
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz stopped in the studio to give the State of Brooklyn to CBS 2's Dana Tyler.
The poet behind a controversial urban poetry book has agreed to tone down the content before it is taught in city schools again.
It's a holiday card with a message.
Some Brooklyn parents are fuming Thursday over a book passed out to their children in school, which featured poems with sexually explicit comments about everyone from drug dealers to presidents.
