All posts tagged "Brooklyn"

NEW YORK CITY— Jessica Jarva scanned the growing line of anxious people waiting alongside the New York City courthouse where Donald Trump was on trial.

The sun had set and rain fell unabated. Jarvaland, as the artist calls herself, knew she, too, would be spending a rainy night in a dark alleyway — for the love of Michael Cohen’s right eyebrow.

“It’s incredible,” the Brooklyn artist told Raw Story of the Trump fixer-turned-foe’s arching brow. “Some people are a delight to draw.” ...

NEW YORK — A Brooklyn e-bike crash last week that killed standup comic Kenny DeForest put New York City over a grim milestone by making2023 the second-deadliest year on record for cyclists — when e-bikes are counted along with human-powered bikes. Cops said Friday that DeForest — who performed on the “Late Late Show With James Corden” and “Late Night With Seth Meyers” — was riding a Citi Bike e-bike the morning of Dec. 8 when he collided with a parked car at the intersection of Rogers Ave. and St. Marks Ave. in Crown Heights. DeForest was transported to Kings County Hospital in critical condit......

A father of four was stabbed to death by a deranged childhood classmate over a long-festering grudge, with the killer snapping photos of his victim before the slaying inside a Brooklyn bodega, police and family members said Wednesday. Severiano “John” Reyes, 36 was hanging out with relatives on Roebling St. near South 9th St. in Williamsburg about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday when the old schoolmate began antagonizing him by taking his picture, according to relatives. The dispute exploded in a lethal instant after Reyes asked the man to stop, with the attacker plunging his blade into the fleeing victim’s......

NYPD whistleblower Frank Serpico, more than a half-century after taking a bullet to the face in a Brooklyn drug raid gone bad, wants prosecutors to take a fresh look at the shooting. The 87-year-old ex-cop told the Daily News he was still seeking definitive answers about exactly what happened inside a narrow apartment building hallway on the night of Feb. 3, 1971. “For years, I didn’t want to believe I was set up,” said Serpico, who feels differently now. “That’s one. And two, I thought ‘How are you going to prove it?’ I want to clear the record for history, what Frank Serpico did and the pric......

Priscilla Presley wished to be buried next to Elvis upon her death, but her request was reportedly denied. The 77-year-old ex-wife of “The King” wanted to spend eternity by his side, according to TMZ. Her wish was said to have been briefly discussed during negotiations over the estate of Lisa Marie, but her request was not granted. TMZ says Priscilla’s request to lay alongside the singer on his Graceland property in Memphis was a nonstarter in the settlement resolved privately on Tuesday. Elvis is currently buried between his parents, meaning the approval of Priscilla’s request would likely me......

Producers of a new documentary on the Rev. Al Sharpton told him they had three conditions for his involvement: He’d have no editorial control, the film would have a white director and the title would be “Loudmouth.” “I said, ‘Loudmouth,’” Sharpton recalled later. “Let me think about that last one.” A day later, Sharpton was on board. “All of the guys I grew up admiring, Martin Luther King, Jesse Jackson, they were southerners,” Sharpton told the Daily News. “I grew up in New York. We had to compete with Broadway lights, Times Square, Radio City Music Hall and the World Trade Center. In New Yor......