Brooklyn Libertarians and/or Reddit gold account owners beware: police say a man was robbed at gunpoint for $1,100 in Bitcoin in Crown Heights last week.

Six people were shot and two died after gunmen opened fire on mourners leaving a funeral in Brooklyn Monday night, the New York Daily News reports. According to witnesses, as many as 15 shots were fired from a silver SUV into the crowd gathered outside Emmanuel Church of God in East Flatbush.

With Brooklyn’s spring thaw in full effect, I’m having lots of conversations with my girlfriends about warm weather activities: like long bike rides, picnics in Prospect Park, and, unfortunately, the inevitable uptick in sexualized street harassment. Just last week, I heard myself saying, “I want to be respected in the street no matter what I’m wearing. Even if I’m out on the Parkway in my mas costume. I want respect, dammit.”

Are you having the loudest sex in New York? Do you live in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn?

The Brooklyn District Attorney's office has arrested two landlords for allegedly attempting to make a building in the borough uninhabitable for its current tenants. The DA's office claims that the landlords wanted to push the building's tenants out and charge higher prices for the available units. Prosecutors have not yet detailed specific charges.

Police found a dead homeless man sitting in a Manhattan-bound L train around 2 a.m. this morning at the Lorimer St.-Metropolitan Ave. stop.

Brooklyn home prices are up 18% since last year—a time when they were already unaffordable. Explorers in search of "the next Brooklyn" have reached the Himalayan foothills, where they are awaiting mortgages and supplies.

Stuart Leaf, a financier, purchased and combined nine separate apartments in a Brooklyn Heights condo building. He is now selling the resulting 11,000-square-foot apartment because it is "too spread out." Stuart, you motherfucker.

Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park is currently—and temporarily—home to a 100-pound bronze-colored bust of Edward Snowden, erected early this morning by a crew of guerilla artists. Animal New York has the story. Run see it before the pigs get there. [Pic: Animal NY]

The planned Flatbush condo is set to open in the next few years. Cheers to New New York.

Seven children, ranging from 5 to 15 years old, died last night in a house fire in Brooklyn's Midwood neighborhood, The New York Daily News reports. Officials said the children's mother and one of her daughters survived and are in critical condition.

A fifteen-year-old boy died on Thursday while attempting to jump from one roof to another in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, the New York Times reports. The teen was with a group of friends on an adjacent roof when he fell to his death.

Renters at the most expensive building in one of the most rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods in the least affordable housing market in America are receiving "insane" monthly heating bills of up to $700 for a two-bedroom apartment. Disabling the heat in all of Brooklyn's new condos could solve a lot of problems at once.

Police have arrested 16-year-old Aniah Ferguson in connection with a gruesome fight that broke out in a Brooklyn McDonald's Wednesday. In cell phone video that quickly made its way around Facebook, one teen can be seen being battered by a group as a crowd of bystanders scream.

Police say a violent confrontation on the New York subway turned deadly Tuesday night when a 32-year-old man was shot and killed by a former corrections officer, the New York Daily News reports.

Picture a New York City sex dungeon. Now picture a typical Park Slope apartment. Now picture a New York City sex dungeon inside of a Park Slope apartment. What does it look like? Hardwood floors or dingy concrete? Whips, chains, baby pics on the fridge? A lonely bottle of hand sanitizer laid atop a thrift-store side table, complimentary squirts for paying customers only?

The pot farm owned and operated by Arthur Mondella, the cherry magnate who killed himself on Tuesday, was reportedly among the largest ever discovered in New York City. The New York Times and New York Daily News report that the grow room—located in Dell's Maraschino Cherries Company's basement, behind a hidden door and down a ladder—spanned 2,500 square feet and could harvest up to 1,200 pot plants.

The owner of a Brooklyn-based maraschino cherry company killed himself Tuesday during a drug raid on his Red Hook factory. After watching law enforcement agents discover a fake wall, Dell's Maraschino Cherries owner Arthur Mondella reportedly locked himself in his private bathroom, yelled "take care of my kids" to his sister, and then shot himself in the head.

As you approach the entrance to the church property, eerie noises waft out of its windows. At first, you might think what you're hearing is the native noise of the parsonage house itself—built in 1853, it sits, paint chipping and distressed, adjacent to an overgrown graveyard—but as you get closer, you realize the sound is coming from inside the building. It is the unsettling, sweeping theme from the film Psycho, played on loop.

A man in Brooklyn fell to his death Sunday afternoon after a walking over a faulty sidewalk cellar grate. "The thing just opened," a witness told the New York Daily News. "He was walking. He wasn't paying attention. The thing is loose. And he disappeared."